Presentation Game 6 Help

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Table of contents Getting Started ......................................................................................................................... 3 Setting Macros in PowerPoint .................................................................................................. 4 Setting up a PowerPoint Add-In ............................................................................................... 7 Setting Trusted Locations ....................................................................................................... 11 Using the Presentation Game Add-In ..................................................................................... 13 Presentation Game Creation Menu .................................................................................... 13 Game Slides ....................................................................................................................... 14 Additional Slides ................................................................................................................. 18 Add Items To Slides ............................................................................................................ 21 Navigation ........................................................................................................................... 26 Help .................................................................................................................................... 29 Game Overview ...................................................................................................................... 30 Support ................................................................................................................................... 30

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Getting Started

TGI Presentation Game 6 Add-In Installation Help & Instructions

After you've run the Presentation Game installation program (PresentationGame6.exe), you MUST enable macros and install the add-in in PowerPoint before using the Presentation Game Add-In. It's pretty easy to do, and we've detailed the steps in the next few pages. As an add-in the Presentation Game will always be available on your menu every time you open PowerPoint. Running the installation program for the Presentation Game 6 only puts the files on your computer. You must set up macros and the add-in in PowerPoint before you can use the Presentation Game Add-In. If you have a newer version of PowerPoint (2007/2010) you will also have to add to the trusted locations for the add-in to work properly.

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Setting Macros in PowerPoint The Presentation Game 6 uses macros to automate several different game functions. Here is how to enable macros so that your game will operate perfectly. First, determine which version of PowerPoint you have (2002, 2003, 2007 or 2010). Instructions for 2002/2003 are listed first and 2007/2010 below.

PowerPoint 2002/2003 1. Open PowerPoint and From the Menubar, select Tools and then Options... 2. Select the Security tab and then click on the Macro Security... button. 3. From the Security pop-up, select Medium and click OK to close both pop-ups.

When you open a PowerPoint file containing macros, select Enable Macros from this pop-up.

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PowerPoint 2007/2010 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Open PowerPoint Click the Microsoft Office Button in 2007 or the File button in 2010, and then click PowerPoint Options. Click the Trust Center tab, and then click Trust Center Settings... On the Trust Center pop-up, select the Macro Setting tab and select Disable all macros with notification. Click on the button for “Disable all macros with notification” and click OK to close both pop-ups.

Security Alert - Macro Upon opening a PowerPoint file you will be prompted to enable the game's macros, select “Enable this content”.

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Setting up a PowerPoint Add-In Now that you have run the PresentationGame6.exe installer and setup PowerPoint macros, it's time to set up the Presentation Game Add-In in PowerPoint. First, determine which version of PowerPoint you have (2002, 2003, 2007 or 2010). Instructions for 2002/2003 are listed first and 2007/2010 below.

2002/2003 1. From the Menubar select Tools and then Add-Ins.. 2. From the Add-Ins Pop-up select Add New… button. 3. From the Add New PowerPoint Add In pop-up, navigate to the C:\Presentation Game Folder (this is where we put the add-in file). 4. Now, select file PG6AddIn.ppa. 5. The next pop-up will require you to Enable Macros. 6. On the last pop-up make sure the PG6AddIn is checked and then close the box.

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2007/2010 1. 2. 3. 4.

Click the Microsoft Office Button in 2007 or File button in 2010, and then click PowerPoint Options. Click on the Add-In tab. In the” Manage” drop down, on the bottom, select PowerPoint Add-ins and then press the “Go” button. Click the Add New... button and navigate to the C:\Presentation Game folder (this is where we placed the add-in file). 5. Select file PG6AddIn.ppa. 6. The next pop-up will require you to Enable Macros. 7. On the last pop-up make sure the PG6AddIn is checked and then close the box.

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The Add-In is now available on the Add-In tab.

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Setting Trusted Locations In PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 you should perform one additional step to ensure the Presentation Game Add-In works properly, and this is to designate the location of the Presentation Game files as a “trusted location” on your computer.

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Click the Microsoft Office Button in 2007 or File button in 2010, and then click PowerPoint Options. Click on the Trust Center tab and then the Trust Center Settings… button. Click on Trusted Locations then click on the Add New Location button. Browse to the C:\Presentation Game folder. Browse to the C:\Presentation Game folder and check the “Subfolders of the location that are also to be trusted” and click OK to close both pop-ups.

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Using the Presentation Game Add-In All of the functionality in the Presentation Game is available by pressing the Presentation Game Creation Menu button. The following pages cover all of the features.

Presentation Game Creation Menu

The Presentation Game 6 offers you the means of easily converting any and all your presentations into an interactive, engaging and fun game; or just adding a few interactive elements to your presentation. We know that frankly, presentations can become long and sometimes boring. Stated simply, it is difficult for any of us to sit and listen to a lecture for a prolonged period of time. Many speakers begin to lose their audience after the first 10 minutes and the level of attention and information retention continues to decline from this moment on. By converting your presentation into a presentation game, effectively allowing your audience to participate and interact with your presentation material and you, they remain focused and engaged. We know that games are extremely engaging, interactive and fun. An audience's attention is often riveted to the game being played. By pulsing in and out of a game while presenting, you will be able to command their full attention. In turn, this will enhance your listener's understanding and retention of the information presented. The Presentation Game provides your audience an enjoyable learning experience. Because the Presentation Game contains all the game elements (question formats, mini quiz show games, question grids, scoreboards, spinners, random selectors, etc.) you will ever need, it can also be used to create a free standing training game for review. As mentioned above, the Presentation Game 6 helps you to instantly turn your presentation into a presentation game. It does this by providing access to interactive game slides and many slide enhancements. The Presentation Game also features a navigation system which, once slides are added to your presentation, makes it a snap to move to and from these slides. Presentation Game slides are specially designed to blend perfectly with, and complement any PowerPoint design template you are using. Let’s take a look at the game’s Creative Menu. The first tab on the menu is entitled Quick Help (shown above). It provides you with a very quick summary on how to use the Presentation Game. 13 / 30

The Menu in the Presentation Game 6 is broken into 4 major categories with various tabs found within each. When a category button is selected, you’ll find general instructions for that category and its various tabs. You’ll also find more detailed instruction on each of the category tabs (shown below) as well as a list of the slides and slide enhancements that can be inserted into your presentation. Finally, it is important that we note that each individual slide in this game, once inserted, contains information on how to use, operate and edit the slide. This information is contained in the notes section of each slide. Here is a recap of the text from the Quick Help page: 1. With your presentation open, use the scroll bar on the left to select the slide position/# in your presentation to insert a new game slide. 2. On the Creative Menu, select the category and tab on which your first new game slide is found (a screen shot of the Category “Game Slides” and its tabs is shown below). 3. Click on the new slide’s name (a sample of the slide will pop up, click to close) and press the Create Slide(s) button. The new game slide is inserted into your presentation. 4. Continue adding game slides and optionally insert Additional Slides, which include Utility Slides (break timers, meeting notes) and Impact Slides to enhance your presentation. 5. Select Add Items to Slides to place enhancements like question timers, and slide borders onto new or existing presentation slides. 6. Finally, after adding ALL your new slides, select the Navigation category and one or both tabs to add the navigation bar(s). A navigation bar provides you fast access to game slides and the ability to quickly return to your place within the presentation.

Game Slides Here we have grouped all of the slides that could comprise a game. Each tab across the top is a category.

Ice Breakers – Many teachers, trainers, and speakers know it is wise to get to know your audience a bit before beginning a presentation or program. Ice breakers help the audience to energize, and get ready to learn. They convert a potentially stale classroom setting into a comfortable, yet charged, learning environment. At the same time ice breakers allow presentation participants to learn a little about one another. There are (7) ice breakers to choose from and these slides are typically placed before your introductory slides. 14 / 30

Intro Slides – The Presentation Game includes (4) different introductory slides complete with music and animation. Obviously a musical introduction informs your audience that it is time for the show to begin and sets the tone for your presentation. Colorful stock photos enter and exit the screen as the music plays. PowerPoint allows you to easily import your own images (PowerPoint 2007 and 2010) to customize your introduction without losing the programmed animation. To do this, once you have selected and inserted an Introductory Slide, right click on any of the graphics (while in PowerPoint edit mode). Now select “Change Picture”. Navigate to and select the image on your computer you wish to insert into the introduction slide. You may have to stretch the edges of the image a bit or reformat the height/width dimensions (use Format Picture) of the newly imported image. Questions 1 & 2 – On the Questions tabs you’ll find many different question formats including multiple choice, true/false, open ended, matching and more. What better way to engage your audience than to periodically introduce a training question. With the Presentation Game you’ll have all you will need (spinners, scoreboards, team selectors, etc.) to develop an exciting game to complement your presentation materials. There are (23) different question formats on these tabs however, some of the formats are similar and merely offer a different correct answer response. For example, we offer you (5) multiple choice formats with (5) possible correct responses. One in which (A) is correct, one in which (B) is correct and so on. When you click on the correct answer while in slide show view, a voice congratulates you on getting the answer correct, and the text begins to flash. Conversely, an incorrect response is also announced when clicked on, and the text will then fade to indicate that response has already been selected. Question slides, generally speaking, offer a (30) and (60) second timer. The timer must be clicked on to start it counting down. You can delete one or both of the timers from the slide if you prefer and use the “Create Timer” program feature, which allows you to create a timer and specify its duration (ranging up to 20 minutes). A reminder that Presentation Game slides are designed to use your own Design Template and color scheme you’ve selected. In this way all the slides you add to your presentation from the Presentation Game will fit seamlessly into your existing presentation. Within the Question tab 2 you’ll also find a survey question which will allow you to survey your audience about their belief on a particular question. After adding several question formats in strategic spots within your presentation you might want to close the Presentation Game’s Creative Menu and add in (edit) your specific game training or survey questions. Spinners – Spinners are game elements that add a bit of chance and therefore excitement to your game. Spinners can be used to select players, teams, game points, prizes and more! Obviously we have placed so many different game elements within the Presentation Game, that you can clearly see, the games you develop are only limited by your own creative imagination. (7) Different spinners are provided to you on this tab. Three of these are macro enabled. Macros allow us to program these slides so they are completely randomized. To operate the macro enabled spinners click first on the Ready button (spin sounds are heard) then click on the Spin button (the wheel begins to spin and eventually stops on one of the wedge selections). Note: When inserting macro enabled slides, it may take a moment for the slide to appear in your presentation as opposed to non-macro slides, which appear almost instantaneously. The three macro enabled spinners (an (8), (12), and (16) wedge version) are all editable and therefore offer you a great deal of versatility (select teams, players, numbers, points, prizes etc.). Non macro spinners work quite well when you allow a random time interval between clicks. To operate, click once on the Start/Stop button, to start the wheel spinning and again to stop it. When playing the game, we suggest clicking the Start/Stop button as soon as you come to this slide to start it spinning. Then allow a team or player to yell “STOP” to end the spin cycle and select a wedge. One of the non-macro spinners is editable. We will talk more about slide navigation feature offer in this program later in this document. We do however, want to mention that spinner slides, because you will want to hop to and from them while presenting, are excellent candidates to be positioned on your slide bar. Random Selectors – Like spinners, random selectors add an element of chance into your presentation game. There are (6) random selector slides offered on this tab, three of which are macro enabled. A few of these selectors offer some unique features and therefore deserve a quick mention below.

Randomizer with editable range (macro enabled) - You select the beginning and ending range numbers (#s from 1 15 / 30

to 1000)

(8) Card Selector (macro enabled) - Shuffles and shows (8) cards. New set of 8 are shown with each new shuffle. You can use this card selector to play a variety of popular card games or create an entirely new game to incorporate into your presentation game (shown above).

(60) Non-repeating random selector (macro enabled) – Randomly select numbers, names, or items from a defined population. For example it could be a population of up to 60 class participants. Once selected however, that specific number, name or item will not appear again until the board is reset. Because selections are editable, this random selector can be used to select point values, people, teams, prizes, and much more.

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Mini Games – Mini game slides have been developed so that you may include a variety of games within your presentation game. For example, one of the mini games offered in this application is entitled The Pyramid Game. The object of the game is for one player on a team to guess all (6) key words found on the pyramid (typically drawn from the training program). The guessing player turns their back to the screen as team members offer word clues. When one word is guessed, the player moves to the next, attempting to guess all (6) within one minute. By duplicating this slide a presenter might incorporate several game rounds into his/her presentation. It's a fun and engaging way to review key program words and concepts as you present. As mentioned above, detailed instructions for the various mini games can be found on the notes section of each slide.

Scoreboards – Most games involve keeping score. Scoring adds an element of competition to the game and in this regard, immerses the participants into your presentation. Scoreboards are provided in this application for (2) to (6) teams as well as for up to 32 players. Team names can be easily edited. Many of the scoreboards contain random selector buttons for choosing the next team or player to play. Detailed operating instructions are found within the notes section. We recommend that you use this application’s navigation bar (explained below) to more easily access the scoreboard from any spot in your presentation, and then just as easily, click back (Last Slide Viewed button) to your place within the presentation.

Finale Slides – There are three musical finale slides available in the presentation game. Images fly in and off the screen to an upbeat song. It is fun to wind things up with a small celebration. As with the Intro slides, the stock images we’ve used on the finale slides can be easily replaced without losing the programmed animation. PowerPoint allows you to import your own images (PowerPoint 2007 and 2010) and customize your introduction. To do this, once you’ve selected and inserted a Finale Slide, right click on any of the graphics (while in PowerPoint edit mode). Now select “Change Picture”. Navigate to and select the image on your computer you wish to insert into the finale slide. You may have to stretch the edges of the image a bit or reformat the height/width dimensions (use Format Picture) of the newly imported image. Prize Selector – You may want to award prizes to the winning teams of your presentation game. There are four different Prize Selector slides to choose from and these typically will follow the finale slide. Prizes can be simple like a round of applause or a fun compliment from members of the opposing team/s, or high value awards, such as dinner for two at a favorite restaurant. A music button can be found on the prize selector slides to enhance your awards ceremony. Again we recommend that you use this application’s navigation bar (explained below) for easy access to the prize selector slide from any spot in your presentation, and then just as easily, click back (Last Slide Viewed button) to your place within the presentation.

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To select any of these slides and put them into your current presentation: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Use the scrollbar on the left of the Creation Menu to move to the slide you want the new slide to appear below. Click on the option button description of the slide. A pop-up will appear with an image and description. Click on the image to exit the pop-up. Click on the Create Slide(s) button on the bottom.

Additional Slides Additional slide tabs include Impact slides, Utility slides, and Certificates. Each tab across the top is a category.

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Impact Slides – We’ve included in the Presentation Game 6.0 (30) high impact slides with great graphics and animations developed to support or reinforce important points in your presentation. These slides are designed to have the graphic appear (fade in) or the animations begin by first clicking on the slide itself, and then the graphic/animation will fade away on a second click. After inputting an impact slide, close the Creative Menu, right click on the slide itself (while in edit mode), and select a slide layout. This will allow you to conveniently add the text and graphics for this important slide. These impact slides are found under (3) headings which are Animations, Editable Messages, and Backgrounds, Borders and Bling. There is also one other slide heading on this tab entitled “Navigation Grid Backgrounds”. These are background graphics designed to hold grids created on the Navigation Grid tab.

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Break Timers - A (5), (10) and (15) minute countdown clock with a music button. As we all know it is important to give your group a break now and again. The Break Timer slides allow you to place a countdown clock on screen which will inform the audience when the break is over and the meeting is about to reconvene. A Music button is included on the slide to alert audience members that the break time is just about over. Again we recommend that you use this application’s navigation bar for easy access to the Break Timer slide from any spot in your presentation, and then just as easily, click back (Last Slide Viewed button) to your place within the presentation. Lunch Timers – A (30), (45) and (60) minute countdown clock with music button. Similar to the break timer slides described above. Other slides include various Timers and Manual Fast Response buttons – This slide contains several very interesting items. First of all there is a selection of question timers (30, 60 and 90 second timers, and you can choose if you want them to begin counting down as soon as you come to the slide, or the moment you click on the timer itself). Secondly there are two fast response buzzers (a large and a small). These buzzers work with the Who’s First and Me First Buzzer systems sold by Trainers Warehouse, and also available on the Training Games website. When the question appears, the host must first click into the fast response buzzer box, allowing the respondents to “buzz in”. The “First In” response will be recorded in the box. Note: the timers and buzzers mentioned above appear as a group on this slide, and after inserting the slide into your presentation, you can then cut and paste any of the selected items onto slides within your presentation.

Dashboard Slides - At the start of the year many organizations are looking back to see how they did last year. They will use many different measures, and they may decide that they want to start tracking certain statistics that will make a difference in improving performance going forward. A common approach is to create one or more dashboard slides that give executives a quick snapshot of how the organization is performing. In the Presentation Game we’ve provided you with five such slide measures including a horizontal and vertical thermometer, a pressure and safety gauge as well as a speedometer. Misc. Slides – Under this heading you’ll find the Sound Machine and Meeting Notes slides. The Sound Machine is a grouping of over 50 different sounds. After inserting this slide into your presentation you can simply copy and paste any of the sounds you need onto various slides you’ve selected in your presentation. These sounds operate by clicking on them in PowerPoint slideshow view. The Meeting Notes slide, when inserted in your presentation, provides you with a place to jot down questions that arise during your meeting that you may wish to 20 / 30

address at the end of your presentation, or as follow up information to your listeners. We recommend that you use this application’s navigation bar to more easily access the scoreboard from any spot in your presentation, and then just as easily, click back (Last Slide Viewed button) to your place within the presentation.

Certificates – The Presentation Game also includes (10) certificate slides with colorful graphics. After inserting a selected certificate, you can duplicate the slide (make one for each class participant), then edit appropriately, and finally print them out. This is a fast and easy way to offer an award or program completion certificate to your class.

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Add Items To Slides

There are three tabs found in this category of the program but rather than adding complete slides to your presentation, here you are adding important elements to your existing slides. The tabs are Create Timer, Slide Borders and Slide Progress, which we’ll explain below:

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Create Timer – Although we’ve presented several standard question and meeting timers above we also wanted you to be able to create a timer for ANY countdown duration required. The Create Timer feature allows you to input both minutes (up to 20) and seconds (from 0 to 60) on a countdown timer, and then add that timer to a selected slide within your presentation. The timer, once added to you presentation, can be resized to your required need.

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Slide Borders – Bold and colorful borders are a great way to add emphasis to slide content. The Presentation Game allows you to select any slide and place a border, the thickness and color of your choice, around the slide. A Preview Colors button lets you see the color and size of the various borders prior to placing them around the slide. IMPORTANT: Place borders on your slides prior to creating your slide navigation buttons. Note: If you want to remove just one slide border, go to the slide, click on the border and press Delete.

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Slide Progress – Slide progress numbers (slide 20 of 35) and progress bars allow both you and your audience to see exactly where you are in the presentation. It is important for you to know where you are in the presentation so that you can determine whether or not you are on schedule. This also allows your audience to see how your presentation is progressing. Slide numbers and progress bars can be placed on or removed from the entire presentation with a click of a button.

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Navigation Includes two Navigation Bars and a Navigation Grid which can be added to your presentation. Choose from different styles and all work with your Design Templates.

We’ve save one of the best features of the Presentation Game for last. This is placing a navigation bar onto your finished presentation. IMPORTANT NOTE: Navigation bars should be inserted into your presentation game AFTER all your game slides are in place. As you’ll see, adding slides after you set up your navigation system for your presentation changes the reference number for each slide and thus will require that you reset slide names and numbers on the navigation tab. Any new slides added will not have a Navigation Bar on them. Typically in a PowerPoint presentation you’ll move through the presentation in slide number order. However, with a presentation game you’ll have incorporated slides that need to be visited several different times during the course of your presentation, and also allow you to jump back to your place in the presentation. For example, perhaps you’ve just come to your first multiple choice question in the game. It’s the Red Team's turn, and they get the question correct. You’ll want to move to the scoreboard and award them their points. Because you’ve set the Scoreboard slide on your presentation navigation bar, you can easily jump to this slide, award points, and jump back to your place in the presentation. We automatically place a “Last Slide Viewed” button on your navigation bar so that you can quickly resume presenting. Keep in mind, that if you jump to a scoreboard slide, as in the above example, then to another slide on the navigation bar (verses returning to the last slide viewed), you will be unable to easily return to the slide in your presentation that you were on prior to moving to the scoreboard.

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Navigation Bar 1 - Typically you may not need a second navigation bar within a presentation. After all, the navigation buttons are really used for jumping back and forth between slides that appear several times in a presentation. Conversely, most of your presentation slides will only be shown one time. Slide Navigation Bar 1 provides you with (8) input boxes and (3) pre-set boxes. The pre-set boxes are for moving to your Last Viewed, Previous and Next slides. The 8 remaining input boxes on Navigation bar 1 can be assigned to any slide in your presentation. To assign a position on the navigation bar you enter the name of the slide (Scoreboard, Spinner, Prizes etc.), and the number of that slide in your presentation. You can use the slider bar on the Creation Menu to help you find the corresponding slide numbers. Leave the unused slots blank. Click the "Create" button to place your customized navigation bar on ALL of your slides. After the navigation bar is created, a small black button on the left side of the bar itself, allows you to toggle between displaying and hiding the navigation bar on the slide. IMPORTANT: Creating your navigation bar should be the last step in developing your presentation game. If for example, other slides need to be inserted into the game after the navigation bar has been created, you will need to again input most of the Button Text and Slide Numbers. Navigation Bar 2 - provides (10) assignable positions. You may be wondering now if two navigation bars across the top of each slide might crowd your slide content a bit. For this very concern we’ve provided an option to hide the navigation bar when the slide first appears. Clicking on the small black button in the top left corner of the slide will then display your navigation bar/s. You may even set Navigation bar 1 to show when the slide appears, and navigation bar 2 to be hidden when the slide appears. You are also given 3 style choices for your navigation bars. Remember it is important to set your navigation bars AFTER you’ve inserted the various slide selections and enhancements from the Presentation Game.

If both Navigation Bars 1 and 2 it is recommended that Nav Bar 2 has the less used links and is set to be Hidden when first displayed. The small black dot will toggle the Navigation Bars on and off as needed. Here is a sample of a presentation with Navigation Bar 1 in place.

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The Navigation Grid is the last tab in the Navigation category. Its function is to provide you with a jeopardy-style question grid. As in "I’ll take History for 300!" Note: If you’re going to use a navigation grid, you should probably create it before navigation bars 1 and or 2. Basically because you’ll want to access the navigation grid slide from navigation bar 1 or 2. Here are the steps to follow to create the question grid: 28 / 30

 First use the Presentation Game to create your game questions. Note that the navigation grid can hold up to     

20 questions. Create a blank slide for the grid to be placed on. You can use the “Create Blank Grid Slide” button found on the tab. This will create a slide using your current presentation slide design. Alternatively, we’ve provided several navigation grid designs in the Presentation Game to accommodate the navigation grid as well. Enter your grid question category text. Use the default button text (100, 200, 300 etc.) or edit to suit. You don’t have to use these point values on your grid but can add text, names or any other label you choose to have for your Button Text Input question slide numbers. You can use the slider bar to find the various question slide numbers located in your presentation. Another suggestion might be to go to the Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint, copy down the slide numbers for each question, and then return to the Navigation Grid tab to create your grid. Add Navigation Bar 1 with links to a scoreboard, this navigation grid slide, and other slides that you may want to move to and from in your presentation.

One of the great features of the Navigation Grid in the Presentation Game is that if you leave categories or question slots blank, the application will create your grid without those categories/buttons. For example, let’s imagine you want to have a question grid with only (12) questions, (3) categories each with (4) questions. This is easy to do by simply leaving unneeded button text/slide numbers blank. Note: If you leave a slide number or category text blank it will not create these items on the grid. If you want to reset the hyperlinks during a game or testing just save the presentation (CTL +S).

Help There is one very last category on the Creative Menu of the Presentation Game entitled HELP. Here we see a review of some of the important points for operating the game as well as information about setting PowerPoint macros. As we’ve seen above, the Quick Help category at the top of the Creative Menu provides a fast reference for creating a presentation game. We have also placed specific information about each category and tab on the category/tab itself. Additionally we have placed detailed operation, edit and usage information for each individual slide in the Notes section of that slide and information on enabling macros on the side of each macro enabled slide.

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own presentations to increase overall participation and retention of your presentation material. Here are some help, instructions and tips for using this program. An ideal way to use the creation menu is to work through the tabs on the left from top to bottom. This will ensure you add all of the slides you want before layering in the remaining features. IMPORTANT: Make sure your presentation is complete before adding any Slide Progress or Slide Navigation. Slide additions made after these have been created will require that you re-enter Slide Progress and Slide Navigation information. You can use PowerPoint’s Slide Sorter view to jot down slide numbers when setting up a presentation’s slide navigation system. However, when using the Presentation Game to insert slides we recommend using the normal edit view. Normal edit view allows you to focus on one slide location, and will insert slides directly behind the highlighted slide. Some of the slides available in this program require macros to work. They are labeled *MACRO ENABLED after the slide descriptions on the various tabs. If you create any of these slides you will need to save your presentation as a Macro Enabled file. Depending upon the speed of your computer, and because these slides involve more intricate coding, they make take a few seconds longer to insert into your presentation. Be patient, they are indeed, worth the wait!

Saving Your Presentations:  In 2002/2003 – Under “Save as type” use Presentation (.ppt format). If you’ve added “Macro Enabled” slides, you will need to enable macros prior to opening your presentation.  In 2007/2010 using MACRO ENABLED slides – Under “Save as type” use PowerPoint Macro Enabled Presentation (.pptm format). You will need to enable macros prior to opening your presentation.  In 2007/2010 NOT using MACRO ENABLED slides – Under “Save as type” use PowerPoint Macro Enabled Presentation (.pptx format).  NOTE: When you click the Create Slide(s) buttons to create one of these *MACRO ENABLED slides you will get a pop-up message that asks you about enabling macros. Choose Yes or Enable to continue. The Navigation system does not require macros to work. It can be used in any PowerPoint format. 29 / 30

Now let’s take a look at each tab within the categories of the Presentation Game 6.0. You’ll notice that when you click on any of the game categories the button darkens slightly. We’ve placed the categories (from top to bottom) in the order we believe that they would most likely be used when creating a presentation game. We’ll be looking at a sampling of some of the slides available in the Presentation Game. We’ve used a fairly generic blue background, but keep in mind; slides within the Presentation Game are designed to adopt the background and design of the specific presentation you’re transforming into a presentation game. Also, before we get started, a quick word on inserting slides. You’ll use the slider bar (shown right) to determine where in your presentation a slide will be inserted. Don’t forget to reposition the slider bar before adding a slide. When you click on any of the listed slides on a tab to insert it into your presentation, you’ll first be shown a pop up preview (in grayscale on left) of the slide for your review. After you close this pop up you’ll click the “Create Slide(s)” button at the bottom of each tab, to insert the new slide. Once you’re familiar with the available slides in the Presentation Game, you can uncheck the “Sample Image” box at the bottom of the Quick Help category to bypass the pop up preview.

Game Overview What's new in version 6. Everything! This is a complete rework of the Presentation Game concept. It is now a PowerPoint Add-In so it will always be available in PowerPoint. Here is a list of what the Presentation Game contains and what it can add to any of your presentations. The Creation Menu adds:  7 different Ice Breakers.  6 different Overall and Players Intros with animation and music.  18 different question format/option slides to your presentation - just enter your questions/answers.  Editable Survey slide.  7 different Spinners.  6 different kinds of Random Selectors.  9 Mini Games.  2 Mouse Action Games.  4 different Scoreboards.  3 different Finales with animation and music.  4 different Prize Selectors.  30 Custom Animation Impact Slides to give your presentation more punch.  3 different Break Timers.  3 different Lunch Timers.  6 different question timers.  2 different Manual Fast Response Buzzers.  A Sound Effects Machine slide or cut and paste individual sound buttons to your slides.  A Meeting Notes slide that allows you to take notes during your presentation.  5 different Dashboard Slides.  10 different Certificate Slides which can be displayed or printed.  Create Timer makes 2 different kinds of timers with user input values from 5 sec. to 20 min.  Add Impact Slide Borders in 32 variations.  Add Slide Numbers to all slides.  Add Progress Bars to all slides in 4 different sizes.  Add 2 different Slide Navigation Bars (2 display options/3 styles) with 18 user selected slides.  Any presentation created with the Presentation Game does not require the Presentation Game add-in to work although some slides do require that Macros be enabled.

Support If you have just installed the Presentation Game add-in and are getting errors or cannot find the Presentation Game, make sure you complete the 3 steps in the Getting Started section of this help. Please contact us at Training-Games.com or at [email protected] for additional questions or concerns. We very much appreciate your purchasing the Presentation Game 6 and appreciate your thoughts, comments and recommendations as well.

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