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Hyperlinks and Action Buttons

This PowerPoint document will help you learn about

hyperlinks and action buttons.

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Hyperlinks In Microsoft PowerPoint, a hyperlink is a

connection from a slide to another slide, a custom show, a Web page, or a file. The hyperlink itself can be text or an object such as a picture, graph, shape, or WordArt.

In PowerPoint, hyperlinks become active when you run your presentation, not when you are creating it.

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Hyperlink Choices

Existing file or web pagePlace in this documentCreate a new documentE-mail address

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Hyperlink steps

Highlight the text or material you want to hyperlink

Select Insert, Hyperlink Choose the option you want

to use.

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Hyperlink Practice

Link to a Word document: Word Link to a web site: Davis School

District (Hint: http://www.davis.k12.ut.us)

Link to another page in this presentation: page 1

NOTE: Remember the links will work when you run the show. Test it out!

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Hyperlinks

Can you think of some benefits of using hyperlinks?

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Action Buttons An action button is a ready-made button

that you can insert into your presentation and define hyperlinks for.

Use action buttons when you want to include buttons with commonly understood symbols for going to the next, previous, first, and last slides.

PowerPoint also has action buttons for playing movies or sounds.

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Action Buttons continued …

Action buttons are most commonly used for self-running presentations — for example, at a booth or for individual study.

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Action Buttons Steps

Choose Slide Show, Action Buttons from the menu bar or select AutoShapes, Action Buttons from the draw toolbar.

Select the action button you want. If you want to add your own text,

choose the blank action button.

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Action Buttons Practice

Insert previous page and next page action buttons on this slide.

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Action Button Practice continued …

Create two action buttons below with the words YES and NO inside.

Link YES to page 12 and NO to page 7.

Do you understand what Action Buttons are and how to use them?

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Congratulations!

You now are familiar with the hyperlink and action button features.

For additional information, use the help feature in PowerPoint to learn more about hyperlinks and action buttons.