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Underutilized by many presenters, Action Buttons can make your presentation easier to navigate for you during a presentation or for a viewer who has a copy of your presentation. If you are not satisfied with the colors, placement, or size of your buttons, you can change them just as you can any other object in a PowerPoint presentation. When finished, you should have a Home, Previous, and Next Action Button on your slide. Using the same procedures as above, place a Next Action Button into your slide. Notice that once again, the default settings are what you need for the Previous button. Just as before, place the button on your slide and PowerPoint will open the Actions Settings window. This time, select the button with the arrow pointing to the left. Go back to the Shapes button on the Insert menu and once again locate the Action Buttons section at the bottom of the menu. Click the OK button when you are done exploring this window. Notice that there are also options to set for when the user hovers the mouse over the button and you can even set the button to launch a program, run a macro, play a sound, and other events. Notice that on the Mouse Click tab, the Hyperlink To option is already checked and the First Slide link is already chosen in the drop down menu.

As it turns out, the default settings are exactly what you want here. PowerPoint will immediately open up the Actions Settings window. Position your mouse pointer approximately in the location where you want the button to be and hold down the left mouse button.ĭrag your mouse until the button is approximately the size you want it and let go of the left mouse button. Now that you’ve clicked on the House button, you need to place it on your slide. When you click on this button, you will notice that PowerPoint opens up a long menu with many different types of shapes you can add to your presentations.Īt the very bottom of the list, locate the section titled Action Buttons and click on the button with a picture of a House on it. Locate and click on the button in this section titled Shapes. Begin by clicking on the Insert tab on the Ribbon and locating a section of the Ribbon titled Illustrations. Suppose you simply want to add Home, Previous slide, and Next slide action buttons to your presentation.