1 / 12

Hyperlinks and Action Buttons

Hyperlinks and Action Buttons. This PowerPoint document will help you learn about hyperlinks and action buttons. Hyperlinks.

tejana
Download Presentation

Hyperlinks and Action Buttons

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Hyperlinks and Action Buttons This PowerPoint document will help you learn about hyperlinks and action buttons.

  2. 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.

  3. Hyperlink Choices • Existing file or Web Page • Place in This Document • Create a New Document • E-mail Address

  4. 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.

  5. 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!

  6. Hyperlinks Can you think of some benefits of using hyperlinks?

  7. 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.

  8. Action Buttons continued … Action buttons are most commonly used for when you are lecturing while showing the presentation or for individual study.

  9. 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.

  10. Action Buttons Practice • Insert previous page and next page action buttons on this slide.

  11. 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?

  12. 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.

More Related