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Tip 20
Adding an Action Button

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Using an Action Button

An action button is a ready-made button that you can insert into your presentation. Action buttons contain shapes, such as right and left arrows, and commonly understood symbols for going to next, previous, first, and last slides, and for playing movies or sounds. You can also create hyperlinks from action buttons. You can select to hyperlink from the action button to another slide, another presentation, or a custom show.

Insert tab with Shapes button selected
Procedures:
1. Go to the slide on which you want to create an action button.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Shapes, and
a Shapes Gallery is displayed.
3. Under the Action Button section , click the button that you want to add.
4. Using the crosshair pointer, draw the button on your slide.
5. The Action Settings dialog box opens up. 		Action button section
6. In the Action Settings dialog box, you can either choose the behavior of the action button when you click it (Mouse Click tab) or when you move the pointer over it (Mouse Over tab).
7. To create a hyperlink, select the Hyperlink to: option button, and then select the destination. In the drop-down box, select the object to which you want to link (next slide, slide, URL, ...)
8. If you select URL, you need to type in the address in the Hyperlink to URL
dialog box.
9. To play a sound, select the Play sound checkbox, and then select the sound that
you want to play.
10. Select additional options, as necessary.
11. Select OK to close the Action Settings dialog box.
Action settings dialog box
To test it out, you must be in the Slide Show view.  

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