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What are Action Buttons ?

These are special Autoshapes that appear as buttons on your slides.

These can be used by the user to perform an action during a slide show.

When you create a button you assign a shape.

Action Buttons allow you to insert buttons onto your slides

Possible Shapes

SS - possible buttons table

The action can be any of the following:

Activate a hyperlink -

Run a program -

Run a macro -

Play a sound -

Choose Slideshow > Action Buttons, select the Return button, use the mouse to draw the button. The action settings dialog box appears letting you hyperlink to somewhere else in the presentation.

To add a name to a button right click the button and choose Add Text

A well planned arrangement of action buttons throughout your presentation can make it easy for anyone to view the presentation in any order they want.

(Autoshapes > Action Buttons)

Action Button toolbar will appear.

You can drag the buttons to change their depth and size.

Move by selecting and dragging

Navigational Toolbar

It is possible to create a navigation toolbar that appears on all your slides.

(View > Master > Slide Master)

Things to Remember