You can learn how to create a game with Microsoft PowerPoint.Both Windows and Mac versions of PowerPoint can be used to do this.
Step 1: You can open the PowerPoint.
The app icon has an orange background.
Step 2: Click the presentation you want to view.
It is on the left side of the PowerPoint window.A new presentation is opened by doing so.
Step 3: Enter the game's name.
In the "Click to add title" box, type in the game name.If you like, you can enter information in the text box below the title box.If you're creating a game for a class, you might enter the class' designation and period.
Step 4: A new slide can be created.
Click the tab at the top of the PowerPoint window and you'll see a white square on the left side.You can create a new slide by doing that.You can click at the top of the screen if you want to go to the drop-down menu.
Step 5: Click on the tab that says "Insert".
There is a PowerPoint window.Make sure you don't click on the grey menu item at the top of the screen.
Step 6: Click on the table.
There is an option in the far left side of the toolbar.A menu will appear.
Step 7: A table of six by six.
In the drop-down menu, position your mouse on a square that is six blocks over and six Blocks down, then click the square.
Step 8: Resize the table.
If you click and drag the grey sphere at the top of the table up to the slide, you'll get a gray sphere there.The slide should be taken up by the table.
Step 9: You can enter the categories.
You can type in a category's name for each cell in the top row of the table.For example, you could type "Types of Dog" into the top- left cell, and so on.After entering a category name, press the Tab key to skip into the next cell.
Step 10: The points are entered.
The following point values are used for each category's column.
Step 11: The table's contents should be centered.
To highlight the entire table, click the table and then press Command+A to center it.The clues for each question can be created now that you have your "categories" slide set up.
Step 12: There are 30 new slides.
Click the button 30 times.Alternatively, you can use the keyboard.
Step 13: You can enter each question's clue.
Click on the text field in the middle of the slide to type the clue for the question.The clue can be centerd by selecting it and then pressing Command+E.You should enter the clue for the first category's first question in the blank slide after the "categories" slide so that you don't get confused later.
Step 14: Go to the "categories" slide.
You'll have to scroll up to find it, but it's in the column of slide previews on the far left side of the PowerPoint window.The "categories" slide will be re-opened if you do that.
Step 15: The first question's points should be highlighted.
You can click and drag your mouse across the "200" text in the table's far left column.
Step 16: Click to insert.
The top of the PowerPoint window has this option near it.If you're on a Mac, make sure you click near the top of the PowerPoint window, not in the menu bar.
Step 17: Click the link.
It's in the program.There will be a pop-up window.You can click on a Mac.
Step 18: Click here to find the place in the document.
There is a tab on the left side of the window.You can click at the top of the pop-up window on a Mac.
Step 19: You can choose the question's clue slide.
The clue is in the first category.
Step 20: Click OK if you don't want to.
There is a pop-up window in the bottom right corner.When you click the "200" text, you'll be taken to the clue's slide.
Step 21: There is a clue slide.
Click to hold down Command on a Mac.You can find the correct clue in the left-hand sidebar.
Step 22: The link from the clue should be on the "categories" slide.
To do this, you need to select the clue slide's text and then click on the "categories" slide.
Step 23: Link to the other clues.
You can have a functional game if you link every clue back to the "categories" slide.You can make the final two rounds of slides if you want the full experience.If you want to create a double-jeopardy slide, you can either make a new slide or link it to one of the points on the "categories" slide.
Step 24: A new six-by-seven slide is needed.
There is a button in the seventh row of the table.Double the points when making this slide's point values, for example, start with 400 points instead of 200, end with 2000 points, etc.)
Step 25: You can choose the row of the table.
To do so, click and drag your mouse across the row.
Step 26: Click on the layout tab.
There is a PowerPoint window.This will open the program.
Step 27: Click on the cells you want to merge.
This is an option in the browser.One large row will be created at the bottom of the table.
Step 28: There is a button called the "Funeral Jeopardy" button.
You can type into the bottom row.
Step 29: Everything should be in the table.
If you want to press either Command+A or Command+E, you have to use either Windows or Macintosh.
Step 30: Link 30 more clue slides.
The method from the previous section will be used.The clues should be more difficult for this round than they were in the last one.
Step 31: You can link the "Final Jeopardy" slide.
The final jeopardy question can be found at the bottom of the second slide.
Step 32: Save your project.
Click, double-click, and then type the document's name into the "File name" text box on the left side of the window.Click, enter the document's name in the "Save As" field, select a save location, and click.