Navigation & Action Buttons

Action Settings provide a means of providing some interactivity through telling Powerpoint to do a specific task, such as open a website. An Action Button is a preconfigured graphic which is packaged with a choice of Action Settings. Action Buttons include clickable forward/backward navigation, a help button, and even a customizable button. Action Settings can be added to most any graphic or sound by using the Right Click properties menu.

Let's add some linking buttons between sides.

Main Menu > Slide Show

Action Buttons> Choose

As you can see there are a lot of choices including:

• Link to:
• a slide within the presentation (e.g., navigational elements such as next slide, previous slide, a specific slide within the presentation for navigation, end, etc) or another Powerpoint presentation

Examples: Using one Powerpoint presentation for a menu structure (only navigational elements)and then mini presentations linked from there, see the Cataloging Tutorial, http://www.libs.uga.edu/catalog/tutorial/

• a link outside of Powerpoint
  Examples: Launch GIL Client, the GIL OPAC, GALILEO, etc. with a single button click
  In order to run a program, it must be loaded on the user’s (or presenter’s) machine; however, this feature will not always work due to security settings
• Add in an effect based upon a mouse click.
• Other choices are greyed out, because they are not really suited to Action Buttons, but are for use other objects.

NOTE: To place an Action Button on every slide, you could add it to the Master Slide. If you only want it to appear on some slides, copy and paste.

Choose Hyperlink to Next Slide.

Click OK.