An action button is a ready-made button that you can insert into your presentation and define hyperlinks for. Action buttons contain shapes, such as right and left arrows, and commonly understood symbols for going to next, previous, first, and last slides, and for playing movies or sounds. Action buttons are most commonly used for self-running presentations - for example, presentations that are shown repeatedly at a booth or kiosk .

  1. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Shapes, and then click the More button button image.
  2. Under Action Buttons, click the button that you want to add.
  3. Click a location on the slide, and then drag to draw the shape for the button.
  4. In the Action Settings dialog box, do one of the following:
    • To choose the behavior of the action button when you click it, click the Mouse Click tab.
    • To choose the behavior of the action button when you move the pointer over it, click the Mouse Over tab.
  5. To choose what will happen when you click or move the pointer over the action button, do one of the following:
    • If you don't want anything to happen, click None.
    • To create a hyperlink, click Hyperlink to, and then select the destination for the hyperlink.
    • To run a program, click Run program, click Browse, and then locate the program that you want to run.
    • To run a macro, click Run macro, and then select the macro that you want to run.

      Note The Run macro settings are available only if your presentation contains a macro.

    • If you want the shape that you chose as an action button to perform an action, click Object action, and then select the action that you want it to perform.

      Note The Object action settings are available only if your presentation contains an OLE object.

    • To play a sound, select the Play sound check box, and then select the sound that you want to play.


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