How to Put an Interactive Game in PowerPoint
The predominant slideshow software, PowerPoint, comes as part of the Microsoft Office Suite, enabling users to prepare presentations with just a couple of button clicks. Presentations are compiled electronic slide by slide, with areas for text, images and design. Because PowerPoint allows for slideshows to be viewed individually, it is an ideal platform to include interactive options such as games. Make presentations come alive with interactive slides.
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Instructions
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Open PowerPoint. Click the "File" tab. Click "Open."
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Browse to the PowerPoint file to add the interactive game into and double-click the file name. The presentation opens in the PowerPoint workspace, with the first slide in the main window.
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Scroll through the slides using the scroll bar, "Page Down" button or slide deck on the left side of the workspace to get to the slide to insert the game. To add a new, blank slide for the game, click the "New Slide" button on the ribbon/toolbar at the top of the screen.
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Click anywhere on the slide to give it focus. Click the "Insert" tab at the top of the screen.
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Click the "Object" button on the ribbon/toolbar. Click the "Create from file" radio button.
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Click the "Browse" button to navigate to the game file location on the computer. Double-click the file name to return to the "Insert Object" window.
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Click the "OK" button to close the "Insert Object" window and add the game to the slide.
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Click the "File" tab. Select "Save As." Type a new name for the PowerPoint presentation and click the "Save" button.
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Tips & Warnings
Note that when viewing the PowerPoint presentation in default/work view, no game interaction is possible. To view the game, switch to the slide show view.
