Each of these bytes appeared in a slide of a classic presentation made using the open source software LibreOffice Impress.
To increase the difficulty of this game, I found myself to deal with the problem of mixing every time the 10 slides I prepared for this activity and then creating a presentation that showed slides no longer sequentially, but randomly.
The right sequence of steps to make sure any presentation displays your slides in a random order is described as follows:
- This macro activation procedure must be carried out immediately on all the computers on which you want to view a slide presentation in random order. Open LibreOffice Impress and refuse to any request of choosing ready-made templates or presentations. Then, by pressing Alt+F12 (or Tools → Preferences...) a window will open for general settings. In the first entry labeled as LibreOffice, choose the Security section. On the right side, select the Macro Security button and set a medium or low value (not recommended). Close the windows by pressing the OK button twice.
- Build all the slides that make up the presentation. Save the document using a name easy to remember (e.g.: bytes.odp)
- Open the Presentation menu → Custom Presentation...
- As a new window opens, press the New button
- Then, another window will open, give a name to the personalized presentation (for example: ShuffledSlides). Write down this name somewhere, because you’ll need it as it’ll be necessary to use it later.
- Put on the right side - selecting them first - the existing slides in the slides section selected using the ">>" button. Close the active window pressing the OK button, flag the Use presentation on custom screen checkbox and close this last window with the OK button.
- Press ALT+F11 to open the macro management window. Another way to do the same is following the path Tools → Macro → Macro setup → LibreOffice Basic...
- To make the macro executable on different computers, in the Macro from window, it is advisable to select the file we saved at previous second point (called bytes.odp). Thus, press the New button.
- Now, a new window opens where you have to specify the name of the macro, for example: shuffle
- Delete any message that automatically appears in the right window, such as: