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Action 
buttons are a lot like hyperlinks in PowerPoint.
They can be used to connect to another slide,

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file, email address, or web page, except they
give you a button to click instead of a link.

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The buttons are actually built-in shapes that
can be found on the Insert tab - on the same

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menu as the rest of the Shapes. You'll find
them at the very bottom in a section of their

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own.

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Because action buttons are so easy to understand,
they're especially useful for self-running

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presentations. I plan to leave this presentation
up for an entire afternoon, so new employees

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can re-watch it if they need to, or go back
to review a specific slide.

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A few of the action buttons should be familiar
to you from browsing the internet, like Home,

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Back, and Next. To insert one, click to select
it, then draw the shape where you want it

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on your slide.

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Now we can define the settings for the action
button. I'm going to leave this one as is,

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which means it'll hyperlink to the next slide
when the user clicks it, basically starting

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the presentation. Click OK to save and close
the window.

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To go back and edit the button, all you have
to do is click the Action command. Why don't

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we go to the Mouse Over tab this time, and
add a sound that'll play as soon as the user

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mouses over the button, before they even click
it.

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You can also customize the way the action
button looks by going to the Format tab. Remember,

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it's just a shape, so you can change everything
from the color and style to the shape itself.

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You don't even have to use one of the predefined
action buttons.

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I have something else in mind for the rest
of my presentation. It involves this list

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of topics (sort of like a home page), and
an action button that users can click to come

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back here any time, no matter what slide they're
on. To add this special button to every slide,

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we're going to go to the View tab first, where
we can switch to Slide Master.

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Now select the first one on the list, and
continue to the Insert tab to follow the same

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steps as before.

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Why don't we use the Home button this time?

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Instead of hyperlinking to the first slide,
which is the title slide, I want to link to

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the Topics slide. So I’ll select Slide…
and then click the one I want to link to.

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Now you may have noticed that the home button
isn’t appearing on some of the layout slides,

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but there’s an easy way to fix that. Just
uncheck Hide Background Graphics.

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Depending on what theme you’re using, you
may need to tweak a few things in the slide

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master view to get all of your slides looking
the way you want.

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When you’re finished Close the Master View.
Now our little action button to return Home

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appears on every slide. Let's check it out
in Slide Show View to see how it all comes

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together.

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There's that drum roll, triggered when I mouse
over the button. It takes us to the next slide

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like it's supposed to and the Home button
appears to be working too. Adding Action Buttons

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to your slides is a fantastic way to make
your presentation fun and easy to navigate.