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One of the neat uses of Microsoft PowerPoint is the ability to create an interactive quiz. Use the hyperlink feature to display correct (and incorrect) answer slides.

Create a slide for your question, including possible answers.  Then, create a slide for each possible answer.

On the question page,  add a hyperlink for each answer.  You can add an image, or hyperlink the text of each answer. To add a hyperlink, select the text or image and press CTRL + K.  When the hyperlink dialog box appears, choose to link to another page and choose the page with the information about the answer.

This is a great way to include additional information for the user.  On each answer page, be sure to include a hyperlink to the next question, or back to the question answered. This presentation can be done from a presenter’s viewpoint, or even individually.

This is a great way to expand the usual, boring presentation. For more great tips on how to use PowerPoint, visit one of our classes.  We look forward to helping you learn more about Microsoft PowerPoint.

When giving a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation, you may find yourself wishing you could draw on your slide to make your point, or to emphasize a certain topic. Well, you can!

When you have a PowerPoint slide show running, you can right-click on the screen and the shortcut menu will pop up. You will see pointer options — which include ARROW, BALLPOINT PEN, FELT TIP PEN and even HIGHLIGHTER.  Click any of these options, and your mouse will work like a pen on the slide.  You can even choose different colors, by clicking on the INK COLOR option.

If you want to erase any of the ink on your slide, right-click again and choose your ERASER.  The eraser will erase each stroke you made with the pen pointer.

PowerPoint refers to this as ANNOTATION, and will prompt you at the end of your presentation whether you want to save the annotation or not.  Most of the time, the things you write on the slides come up as a result of each individual presentation, so you don’t save the ink drawings.

You can also access the pens and erasers by choosing the PEN option in the lower left corner of the screen, or by pressing CTRL + P.  To remove the pen and have the arrow pointer again, press CTRL + A. You can access the eraser by pressing CTRL + E.

For more PowerPoint tips & tricks, attend our next Microsoft PowerPoint training class!  We offer two levels to meet all your needs.