Randomize slides

[Rob]

Hi folks,

I admit I'm trying to take the easy way out and save some research time by
posing my question to this group...

I would like to create a powerpoint presentation of "flashcards" to help my
daughter with her addition, subtraction and multiplication tables. Once I
create the different slide shows, I want to randomize the slides.

A few years ago, this would have been an easy project -- unfortunately for
me, I haven't played around with VBA or VB in some time, so I am a bit
rusty.

My plan is simply to do the following:

- Determine the number slides in the presentation
- Create an array of randomized numbers (slides)
- arrange the slides in accordance with the array

simple enough (I hope). The difficulty I see happening is digging through
ppt/vba help files looking for the correct libraries and objects such as
slide ID, etc.

Any help getting me started or knowledge of existing code will be very much
appreciated.

Rob

 

[Tushar Mehta]

For a ready-made solution, check the Random Slideshow add-in available
from my web site (PowerPoint | 'Random Slide Show' page).

You might also want to check the 'Teach Arithmetic' add-in available
from the Excel page | 'Teach Arithmetic' link of my web site.

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Tushar Mehta, MS MVP -- Excel
www.tushar-mehta.com
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[Rob]

Tushar,

I appreciate the help, but according to your website, the Random Slide Show
Page only works with PPoint 2000.

Any tips on how I can create the VBA code myself. I'm a little rusty, but
at one time I was well versed in VBA Excel and PPoint. I've been out of the
coding business for a few years.

Rob

 

[Tushar Mehta]

Ummm...dunno if that is a real restriction. However, I don't have PP97
on any machine to test if the add-in works with it.

Basically, the add-in creates a custom slide show in which the slides
are in random order. In addition, it has the option to retain the
positions of the first and last slides. As far as the code goes, it's
been a long time since I wrote the add-in, but I probably used the PP
macro recorder to get the initial code.

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Tushar Mehta, MS MVP -- Excel
www.tushar-mehta.com
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[John Weidner]

You might find the following web sites helpful for non-powerpoint
solutions to displaying flashcards. Each of these will display
flashcards online.

http://www.studystack.com
http://www.flashcardexchange.com
http://www.quia.com

John Weidner

 

[Brett Taylor]

You wrote,

I would like to create a powerpoint presentation of "flashcards" to help >my daughter with her addition, subtraction and multiplication tables. >Once I create the different slide shows, I want to randomize the slides.

++++++++++++++
Not an answer for your question, but you might want to check out my
humble web site for multiplication facts drill,
http://www.geocities.com/multiplicationfacts .
If you do succeed in making a powerpoint flashcard presentation, I
would be interested in using it. I teach night school, GED .

PS- Sorry if my format and reply here were not according to message
conventions.

Brett Taylor

 

[Tushar Mehta]

On my web site see the PowerPoint/Random Slide Show page. Also, for an
educational tool that I wrote to help someone teach his kid arithmetic
see http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/education/

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Regards,

Tushar Mehta, MS MVP -- Excel
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions