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

2.  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. 2

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

4.  Highlight the text or material you want to hyperlink  Click on the Insert tab, Links group, Hyperlink  Choose the option you want to use. 4

5.  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! 5

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

7.  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. 7

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

9.  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. 9

10.  Insert previous page and next page action buttons on this slide. 10

11.  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? 11

12.  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. 12