PowerPoint Image Capture for Import into wInquiry

• Make sure you know the location on your computer where your PowerPoint presentation is saved. Note: If your PowerPoint has animations or builds in it you want to retain, you will need to make copies of those slides and have the animations build as additional slides. The software captures only static images, or the last thing you see on the slide.
• Make sure you have created a wInquiry project for the event you are planning. For our example, we will call our project ‘VP Event’.
• Open wInquiry and right-click on the Blue System Diamond at the top.
• Select ‘PowerPoint Image Capture’ – last option on the list. A window displays with basic instructions and two buttons.
• First click on button 1. Image Save Name
• A window displays to provide you with the method to specify the location and name you want to use for saving the images.
• If you want to change the location of where you are saving the images, then you use the pull down menu at the top of the window to browse to the location you want to save the images into. Note: I recommend saving the images into the wInquiry project folder that you are working with. In our example here, it would be VP Event. The path for the project folder is: c:\arsi\winquiry32\VP Event.
• Now you specify the name you want to use for the captured images – the program will save them in sequence, the default that comes up is ARS-, if using that, the first slide will be saved as ARS-001, second slide as ARS-002, etc. Once you have specified the name, click the Save button. Note: The default for the image save type is .jpg, you can also save as .bmp – simply select that type with the pull down menu below the name.
• Next click on button 2. Load & Capture
• Another window will appear to allow you to browse to where your PowerPoint presentation is saved on your computer. Once you locate it, select and press the open button.
• Let the PowerPoint go – do not interfere with it. Sit back and relax. The process will take a few seconds or a few minutes, depending on the size of your PowerPoint. You will see PowerPoint open and each image display as the program automatically captures each slide. Note: In the event that you need to stop the image capture process before completion, simply hit the escape key.
• Once complete, you will then go to your project folder and if you have not already created a qbase file, you need to create and open a qbase file.
• At the edit qbase page, you select the import button.
• This opens a window that will allow you to select the file that you want to import. For this procedure, you will be importing a text (.txt) file. So at the bottom, “Files of type” should be changed to “Text Files (*.TXT). You will then see .txt files in the window.
• Select the file that was created from the PowerPoint Image Capture – it will be given the same name as you used to save the images - with the word import on the back (for example ARS-import.txt), and then click the open button.
• This imports all of the capture images into your qbase file as non-polling or ‘display only’ screens. You can select the first slide and use the “preview” button at the bottom to preview the captured images. Once you reach an actual ARS question slide that you want polled, you can hit the escape key.
• Double-click on the screen to open up the question set-up page to change the question type to ‘Numeric M/C’ or other polling format, set the number of choices, correct choice and all polling and graph display options. Preview the question to make sure it looks appropriate.
• Set each question slide with the polling parameters as needed.