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

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another slide, file, email address, or web
page, except they give you a button to click

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instead of a link. The buttons are actually
built-in shapes that can be found on the Insert

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tab - on the same menu as the rest of the
Shapes. You'll find them at the very bottom

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in a section of their 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 the 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. Now select

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the first one on the list, and continue to
the Insert tab to follow the same steps as

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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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a specific slide and that's the Topics slide.

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Click OK, and go back to the Slide Master
tab to Close the Master View. Now our little

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action button to return Home appears on every
slide. Let's check it out in Slide Show View

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to see how it all comes 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. What a fantastic

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way to make your presentation fun and easy 
to navigate!