MS Power Point question

Factual Questions
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Is there a way to get power point to display slides randomly from a presentation?

I am writing a little Power Point presentation to use as a study tool. Basically a slide has a “question” on it and the answer is revealed with a mouse-click. It is to take the place of some real-life flash cards I have. At the moment all the questions are in a set order, I’d prefer it to be able to fire them at me randomly.

Any ideas?

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MS Office 2003 BTW.

3

Nothing built in to power point allows that.
But you can look for Add-ins and hope someone else wrote and distributed one for free or share.

Jim

4

You can do this with a PowerPoint macro. Give me a moment and I’ll write you an example.

But if you’d rather not use a macro, let me know and I won’t bother :slight_smile:

5

Doh. I have to go to sleep now but I hope to get you one by tomorrow. Sorry.

6

I have no issues with using a macro.

I’m in no hurry either so no need to rush, but I would appreciate an example when you get the time.

Thanks

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You might try a handy dandy little application they have called Microsoft Ink Flash Cards. I got them as part of the Education Pack for Tablet PC, and they were free for me to download.

As far as I can tell they wouldn’t actually require a Tablet PC to work. They do allow for random order review, a timer, flagging cards to review again, text and graphics, and some other features.

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Good thought Harriet, however Windows XP for Tablet PC is required (I tried it, it wouldn’t install.)

Anyone know of any other flashcard programs?

9

Sorry Death Ray, the PowerPoint turned out to be more difficult than I thought it’d be and it’s currently very buggy.

I thought PowerPoint was a requirement; if not, would either of these two programs work? They’re both free and both are pretty similar. They’d be much easier to use and maintain than a rigged PowerPoint presentation.

Pauker
jMemorize

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No worries Reply.

PowerPoint is a requirment only because I already have the slides written up. I have been doing some searching on study software and if I find something that is quite good, it would be worth re-writing the slides for the new program (after all, puting this stuff together is quite good study in its own right.)