Interactive PowerPoint presentations

[cler1966]

I am trying to create an interactive powerpoint presentation about
spreadsheets for my students.
Can somebody please tell me how you enable students to click on the slide
and type text while the presentation is running ( to simulate entering text
in a cell of excel)

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If you just want the user to be able to type, and you are not using Macs,
then you can get a text box from the control toolbox. If you want to be able
to do something with what they typed, then you'll need to use VBA. I have
many VBA examples of interactive presentations on my site, but I do not use
the Control Toolbox in any of them. Instead, I get user input with an
InputBox command which pops up a dialogue box in which the student can type.
See

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

--David

David Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[PPTMagician]

Why simulate? You can embed a spreadsheet and set the Action Settings to
Open the Spreadsheet for editing. See: Dynamic PowerPoint tutorial at
http://www.powerpointmagician.0catch.com/articles.htm

Glenna