Action Buttons
• Link to another place in your
presentation
• Link to web pages, videos, etc.
• Interactivity – gives the viewer a
choice of what happens next, lets
you make quizzes etc.
Adding an Action Button
• Select the Slide Show drop-down menu
• Select Action Buttons
• A menu will appear with the different
buttons available.
• Hover over each once Select the one you
want to see what it does.
• Click on the slide where you want the
button to go.
• You can drag and drop the button and/or
resize it.
• Right click on the button for hyperlink
options etc.
Custom Animation
• Right click on the object you want to
animate
• Select Custom Animation
• A new menu will appear on the right hand
side of the screen
• Use the Add
Effect button to
pick an effect
• Preview the
effect by
pressing Play
(bottom right)
For example:
Adding Sounds and Movies
• Open the Insert drop down menu
• Select Movies and Sounds
• Pick the type of file you want to add
• Drag and drop the icon, adjust it’s size etc.
Recording your own sounds
• From the Movies and Sounds menu, pick
Record Sound
• Name your file and record the sound.
• Click OK. A sound icon will appear on the
slide.
• You can edit the
sound (volume, looping
etc.) by right clicking it.
Hyperlinks
• A hyperlink allows you to link up a
word/picture etc. to a web page, another
slide, a video, a sound etc. etc. etc.
• To hyperlink a word, highlight the word and
then right click on it.
• For any other object, right click on it.
• From the drop down menus that appear,
click on Hyperlink
• Hyperlinked words will appear in a
different colour and underlined
• Pictures can be
hyperlinked too
• The end….
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Custom
Previous
slide
End
Next
slide
Start
Video
Return
Document
Sound
• Pants!
• You can use action buttons to return to the
last slide viewed
Points to remember
• Always keep video / multimedia clips in the
same folder as the PowerPoint (otherwise
they won’t run)
• Use custom animation to make it more
visual