Action Settings

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Action Settings & Hyperlinks

For your assignment, you are asked to include action buttons and hyperlinks in your presentation. Each are described below.

Action Buttons

Action buttons can be used to take your presentation to another element, such as a movie or another slide in your presentation. For your assignment, you are asked to insert action buttons in your presentation. One will create a link from the last slide of your presentation to the first slide of your presentation and another to activate a sound. To do this,

Go to the Drawing Toolbar
Click on "Autoshapes"
Select "Action buttons"
Choose a button
Click and drag to create the button on your slide
An action setting window will appear and should look like the following:

Use the question mark button to learn more about the various features.
The Mouse Click differs from Mouse Over in that you must click on the button to activate the setting. Mouse Over will only require that you move the mouse over the button. For your hyperlink button, select go to the "Mouse Click" tab.
Go to the tab of your preference and set the hyperlink to "First Slide"
Repeat the above steps to create a second button. Format the settings for this button to activate a sound on mouse over.

You can associate two actions with an action button (or any text or object). For example, you can decide to play a sound when you move your pointer over a button, but then jump to another slide when you click on that same button.

More on Hyperlinks

In addition to using action buttons to hyperlink your presentations to other slides in the presentation, you can use it to jump to a different presentation altogether, a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, or a webpage on the Internet. In fact, you do not need to use action buttons to create a hyperlink. You can create a hyperlink from any text or object. Instead of using the Action Settings pop-up window, you can use "Insert Hyperlink" button from the Standard Toolbar. This button will look similar to the following:

For your assignment, create a hyperlink from some text in your document to a website on the Internet.

This concludes the final lesson from the PowerPoint II module, please return to the Assignment Section of this module to review the requirements and submit your work.