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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

Click on the Insert tab, Links group, 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 slide in this presentation: Slide 6

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.

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 when you are lecturing while showing the presentation or for individual study.

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ACTION BUTTONS STEPS Click on Insert tab, Illustrations group, Shapes and select

the appropriate button from the Action Buttons options.

Drag the mouse to create the button.

When Hyperlink to: comes up, select Slide… and select the slide 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.