Action buttons and action settings in PowerPoint

To add an action button to a slide, click Slide Show - Action Buttons and make a choice:

On the slide, drag out the action button:

The Action Settings box appears. Click next to Hyperlink to: Click the list button to see the list of options. If you select Slide. you'll see a numbered list of all your slides with a very helpful thumbnail view.

It's a good idea to repress mouse clicks, so that children can't advance the slide by clicking anywhere. Click Slide Show - Slide Transition. Click to remove the tick adjacent to On mouse click. Then click Apply.

The colours of action buttons are determined by the colour scheme. To make changes, click Format - Slide Color Scheme. To make changes to single features, click the Custom tab.

Linking text and pictures
It's possible to make any object (a text box, or a picture) link directly to another slide, in much the same way. To create an action setting, select the object by clicking once. If it's a text box, click just after - not on - the text. Make sure that the surrounding frame is 'dotty':

If you click on the text itself, the text (rather than the text box) will be linked, resulting in change of colour and underlining (like on a Web page). Click Slide Show - Action Settings. Just as before, create a hyperlink to another slide.

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