How to make a Jeopardy type
game in PowerPoint
Open a blank PowerPoint
Go to your slide layout section in
the task pane
Choose a blank slide layout for
your title slide
Add a table for your Grid
Make your table 5 columns and 6 rows
Make your table 5 columns and 6 rows
Spread your table out over your slide
Make your background blue
• Right click on the white area in your slide
and choose background
Make your background blue to
match the Jeopardy color scheme
Choose the color
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.
Make your text a visible color
(white or yellow)
Insert your categories and values
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Cat 4
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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
Add hyperlinks to your values
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Highlight the value
Click on the Hyperlink button
Place the link in your document
Click on the slide you want to hyperlink
Title your category slides.
Start with your first category and label it with
the category name, the value, and the
question.
Do that for each category.
It does take a while
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
Click on the back or previous
button
Draw your button on your second
slide, put it in the bottom corner.
An Action Settings dialog box will
appear
• Click on the drop down box and choose
hyperlink to first slide.
Format your back button to be the
same color as your background
• Right click on the button
• Choose Format AutoShape
Choose the same color as the
background
Copy your button to all of your
question slides.
• Ctrl + C is Copy
• Ctrl + V is paste
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.
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