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By\u00a0Susan Harkins<\/a><\/div>\n
April 11, 2013, 6:58 AM PDT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Takeaway:\u00a0Build a little navigation into your slide shows by putting PowerPoint action buttons and links to work.<\/p>\n

There are two easy ways to connect slides to one another: action buttons and links. Action buttons are AutoShape objects that link to other slides, play sounds, and perform other specific tasks. Users simply click the button to execute the actions. The user-friendly display of action buttons makes them a natural for self-running presentations. Links include hyperlinks and actions. They let users link to other slides, files, and even web pages. In this article, we\u2019ll add several action buttons and links for easy maneuverability.<\/p>\n

Note: You can\u00a0download the demo files<\/a>\u00a0for these techniques if you want to see them in action.<\/em><\/p>\n

1: Outline your needs<\/h2>\n

You can add links at any stage of development, but knowing the paths you might want to travel from slide to slide is the key to knowing which slides need links.\u00a0Figure A<\/strong>\u00a0shows our example presentation, which displays a few informational messages. The first slide is a menu. We want to link the menu arrows to the appropriate slides. From those slides, we\u2019ll use action buttons to return to the menu.<\/p>\n

Figure A<\/h4>\n

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Outline your presentation\u2019s path.<\/h6>\n

2: Add an action link<\/h2>\n

The jump from the menu slide to the appropriate informational slide is easy work for an action link. To add a link that jumps to the instructions slide when clicked, do the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click the Instructions arrow (AutoShape). If you click inside the text, PowerPoint will add a hyperlink style (underscore) to the text. If you click the border, it won\u2019t. In PowerPoint 2003, choose Hyperlink from the Insert menu and skip to step 6.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the Insert tab.<\/li>\n
  3. Click the Action option in the Links group.<\/li>\n
  4. In the resulting dialog, click the Hyperlink To option. The default setting in the drop-down is Next Slide.<\/li>\n
  5. Choose Slide, as shown in\u00a0Figure B<\/strong>, from the drop-down.<\/li>\n
  6. In the next dialog, choose General Instructions as shown in\u00a0Figure C<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  7. Click OK twice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Figure B<\/h4>\n

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    Choose Slide to link to another slide in the presentation.<\/h6>\n

    Figure C<\/h4>\n

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    Select the slide you want to link to from the Instructions arrow.<\/h6>\n

    You just linked the first arrow to the General Instructions slide. Action links are an easy way to link an existing object, in this case, the arrow AutoShape.<\/p>\n

    3: Complete the menu links<\/h2>\n

    Repeat step 2, adding an action link to both of the remaining arrows:<\/p>\n