Once you insert an Action Button, and explore thedefault behavior for each Action Button,you are ready to move on to more detailed techniques on working with Action Buttons. Each Action Button has a default action associated, thistypically is a hyperlink to some other slide in your presentation. You can change this link, or even add another link such as a link to yourweb site, another document, and more. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add or change hyperlinks emanating from Action Buttons in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac:

When you insert an Action Button, theAction Settings dialog box pops up with the default Mouse Click tab selected as you can see inFigure 1. Actions in the Mouse Over tab work similarly—the only difference between the two tabs is:

• Actions chosen in the Mouse Click tab need a click on the Action Button to happen.
• Actions chosen in the Mouse Over tab merely need your cursor to be placed over the Action Button to occur.

Step 2: Paste the hyperlink into the address box. Step 3: Click 'File,' then 'Save as Adobe PDF.' Step 4: Save the PDF. Step 5: Once the PDF publishes, you will have a clickable link within your presentation. Step 6: Upload the hyperlinked PDF to SlideShare, and voila: clickable links within slides! Hyperlinks or url’s in documents won’t ‘print’ to a PDF file – that’s because a paper page can’t have clickable links so the link information isn’t passed along to the ‘printer’. However the look of a link (ie blue text, underlined) is part of the text formatting so that is printed. Pasting a plain URL is the wrong way. WordPress will not automatically turn URLs into clickable links, the way Facebook and G+ does, so pasting a plain URL is not particularly helpful to readers. Turning a word or phrase into a hyperlink to the URL is the right way.

Figure 1: Action Settings dialog box

To bring up the Action Settings dialog box (refer to Figure 1 above) for an Action Button which isalready inserted, just right-click your Action Button, and choose the Action Settings option in the resultant contextualmenu, as shown in Figure 2.

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Figure 2: Action Settings option selected

Alternatively, you can select the Action Button—then choose the Insert | Hyperlink menu optionas shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Hyperlink option selected within the Insert menu

Either way you will bring up the same Action Settings dialog box as shown in Figure 1, above. Here arethe details about the options available within the Mouse Click tab of the Action Settings dialog box,as marked in Figure 1:

A. None

This radio button indicates no hyperlink has been set up for the selected Action Button. Also, if your Action Button alreadyhas some other hyperlink option selected, then choosing this option removes that link.

B. Hyperlink to

Used to select a hyperlink. It causes a different slide in the active presentation, a different presentation, a non-PowerPoint document,or a web page to come up. To make the selection, click the downward arrow towards the right of the selection box(highlighted in red within Figure 1, above) to open a drop-down list as shown inFigure 4 (highlighted in red). In this drop-down list, make the selection based on yourrequirement.

Figure 4: Hyperlink option selected within the Insert menu

C. Run program

Select this radio button to set up an Action Button to run a program, for example Microsoft Word or Excel.

D. Run macro

This option will be available only if macros are enabled. To use macros, your file should be a PPTM or PPSM file. Look atour Files Types in PowerPoint 2011 tutorialto learn more about these file types.

E. Object action

This option is grayed out when you select an Action Button, and then bring up the Action Settings dialog box. When youselect an object (such as an embedded Word or Excel object), then this option is available within the Action Settingsdialog box.

F. Play sound

Select this check-box to make a sound clip play when the selected Action Button is clicked during theSlide Show. Once you select the Play soundcheck-box, you can click the downward arrow towards the right of the selection box (highlighted in blue withinFigure 4) to bring up a list of available sound clips.

Note that the options from A to E are radio buttons, this means you can apply any one of these actionsfor your selected Action Button. The moment you choose any of these radio buttons, then any existing options are replaced.

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After selecting the hyperlink and making the settings as required, make sure to click the OK button to apply them tothe selected Action Button.

With a few simple steps, we can easily turn this pre-made PowerPoint graphic into a clickable animated process interaction.

Step 1: Plan Interaction

How do you want your interaction to look and function? You’ll need to identify which items should be clickable. Decide which animations and effects to apply with each click. Make sure that the artwork is to your liking, because we’ll be using this slide as a template for the others.

Step 2: Add Buttons

To add buttons, draw a shape over the items you want to make clickable. Note: Right click and select “Edit Points” to make sure the shape fits perfectly over the clickable area. Once all clickable shapes have been added, it’s time to make them transparent. Then simply add hyperlinks to the shapes so each shape navigates to a corresponding slide in your presentation.

Step 3: Create Pages

You’ll need a landing page for each clickable item to navigate to. Copy/Paste your artwork and buttons to each landing page slide. Tweak the content on each slide as needed.

Step 4: Make Awesome

At last we throw in some wicked animations. You can make them as extreme as you like, but subtle animations tend to look more professional. Adding a small animation to each shape that is clicked on is a nice way to indicate what was just clicked.