Saturday 4 February 2012

Use opportunely PowerPoint make game timer


Recently held a school oral English game, and there is a link is free speech, time to 30 seconds, the player himself selected topics. Leaders decided by me a time system design, the requirement to real-time display player for the rest of the time. I decided to select PowerPoint 2003, use from the definition animation of the "appear" means, set each object for 1 second of delay to realize, below I elaborate manufacture process.



Input the name





Open the PowerPoint 2003, choose the "empty demo manuscripts," format chosen as "the title only", in the title text box type "oral English game timing system" fonts set to "bold". As we in the play the slideshow, need to use simple macro command, so also will the safety of macro to reduce, easy for us to use. In turn click the tools/macros/safety ", and then will "security" down to a "low" can.



Dynamic time display production





We must realize the timing begins to show the time of real-time dynamic, here is the countdown (the remaining time). The accomplishing method is: in the slide into the text frame, the content of the text box were 1, 2, 3, these Numbers, then use "from the definition animation" the inside of the "appeared" effect on these text box set animation, each object in a previous object appears after 1 second appear.



In this example for timing time to 30 seconds, should need 30 text box, but the first text box the delay time for 0 seconds, so we want to insert a total of 31 text box, the first text box didn't stay time, the text box's contents were 30, 29...... 2, 1, 0, that is the first text box content is "30", and finally a text box content is? "So that input can be in the behind of the animation set some convenient, set up all the text frame alignment for" level center ", "vertically". Here we to set a text box from the definition animation effects as an example to explain the procedures:



1. Choose to set from the definition animation text box.



2. Open menu "slide show/from the definition animation", in the pop-up "from the definition animation" dialog box we click "add effect/into/appear" set the object's animation effects for "appeared".



3. In the popup dialog box we click to set up the right side of the object down button, select "effect option" the order.