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PowerPoint Presentations: Getting Fancy
PowerPoint 2000 allows you to make professional electronic presentations. This document shows you how to use some of the advanced features such as adding navigational buttons and links, animating objects, creating your own custom backgrounds, and converting your presentation into a website or pdf document.

 

  You will need:
  • PowerPoint 2000 (If you are working from your Pierce College office computer and have Outlook, you probably also have this version of PowerPoint)
  • You need speakers and a sound card on your computer to play music and sounds.

Creating Action Buttons
Create a Button
 

Click on the Slide View button

On your menubar click on Slide Show > Action Buttons, then choose a button style.

In the slide window, click and drag to create a button.

 
Assign Navigation
 

 

At the Action Settings dialog box, click on the down arrow next to "Next Slide" and choose an option of your choice.

Test the Button

 

Click on the Slide Show button.

Then click on the Navigation button. It should appear to depress and then navigate to the object that you chose.

Hyperlinking Text or Objects
Insert Text or an Image
 

Insert Text

Click on the Slide View button

On the menubar click on View > Toolbars and be sure that the Drawing option has a checkmark next to it.

On your Drawing toolbar, click the Text Box button .

Click inside the Slide view and type in whatever text you want.

Insert Image

On the menubar click on Insert > Picture > From File.

Choose the digital file you would like to insert and click Insert.

Turn it into a Hyperlink.
 

 

Either highlight your text or click on the image to select it.

Click on the Hyperlink button and this window will appear...

On the left hand side, choose where you want to the page to go (For this example choose Existing File or Web Page).

Where it says "Type the file or Web page name:", type in the web page address. (Include the http:// part of it)

Click OK.

Test Your Hyperlink
 

Click on the Slide Show button.

Click on the Hyperlinked word or image. It will launch your web browser and open up the website you chose.

*note- You can also make a hyperlinked object take you to another page in your presentation, a different PowerPoint presentation, a Word document, etc.

You set those parameters in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box (shown above).

 

 
 

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