PowerPoint contains many useful features for adding interactivity to your presentations.  Obviously interactivity is rarely appropriate for a slide show presented by a speaker to an audience, but it can enhance and add interest to self running kiosk style presentations.  If you are unfamiliar with the basic features of PowerPoint you should first look at an Introduction to PowerPoint tutorial.

Two easy types of interactivity that can be included into any PowerPoint presentation are navigation and feedback. For navigation, you can use onscreen buttons and text for a branching structure, allowing the user to visit the sections as they wish or to provide the option to gain more information on topics of interest. For feedback, slides can present questions and offer choices of answers. 

Examples could be:

• User inputs a name, which is used in feedback or included into a storyline.
• User answers some questions and is given feedback as to the number of correct answers.
• Objects are added to slides.
• Text is added to or modified on slides.
• Text colour, font, size, or style is modified.

Work down each of the links on the left and you will be creating interactive slide shows in no time.

Where to from here?

This web has only scratched the surface of what you can do with VBA.  David Marcovitz' tutorial from the references page is quite detailed and a useful next step.  Following that the Visual Basic Help, which can be accessed when working in the VBA editor, is a comprehensive reference.

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