1. How to make a Jeopardy type game in PowerPoint

2. Open a blank PowerPoint

3. Go to your slide layout section in the task pane

4. Choose a blank slide layout for your title slide

5. Add a table for your Grid

6. Make your table 5 columns and 6 rows

8. Spread your table out over your slide

9. Make your background blue Right click on the white area in your slide and choose background

10. Make your background blue to match the Jeopardy color scheme

11. Choose the color

12. Now you need to format the text Since a blue background does not work well with black text we need to format the text to show up for our grid. Select your table.

13. Make your text a visible color (white or yellow)

14. Insert your categories and values Cat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5 100 200 300 400 500

15. Make 26 more slides Hold the Ctrl and M key to create new slides. You will need 27 slides total. Title/Category/Value slide=1 Categories=25 Final Jeopardy=1 Total=27

16. Add hyperlinks to your values 1.Highlight the value 2.Click on the Hyperlink button 3.Place the link in your document 4.Click on the slide you want to hyperlink

17. Title your category slides. Start with your first category and label it with the category name, the value, and the question.

18. Do that for each category. It does take a while

19. Make a back button for each of your category slides. Go to your drawing toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Click on Autoshapes Click on Action buttons

20. Click on the back or previous button

21. Draw your button on your second slide, put it in the bottom corner.

22. An Action Settings dialog box will appear Click on the drop down box and choose hyperlink to first slide.

23. Format your back button to be the same color as your background Right click on the button Choose Format AutoShape

24. Choose the same color as the background

25. Copy your button to all of your question slides. Ctrl + C is Copy Ctrl + V is paste

26. Add a small button to your first page to jump to final Jeopardy Repeat the last few steps to create a button that will go to final jeopardy.

27. Cat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5 100 200 300 400 500