Hyperlinks and Action Buttons

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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 page
• Place in this document
• Create a new document
• E-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
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• 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.