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Working with Slide Controls. One other option that you want to keep in mind as you are thinking about working on presentations and applying different kinds of effects, is an option that you have to apply controls to a slide and these can be really helpful, depending on how you're going to use your presentation. The control options are actually found on the draw toolbar, which you'll see at the very bottom of PowerPoint. If you don't see it, just go up to view, click toolbars, and click your drawing option here. You can also just right-click any menu and go directly to your drawing toolbar and I am going to detach it a little bit and drag it up here so we can see it. Now if you click the AutoShapes option on drawing, what you are going to see is what's called action buttons. What these are, are different buttons that you can put on slides so that you can manage the slides, and depending on how you are using that presentation, you can give yourself as well as audience members, some functionality. Let's start out with some basic ones; this is a basic forward or next button and what I am going to do is click it. Then I am going to draw it right here on my screen, as you can see here, and now what I have, I am going to move this, is a button that appears at the very bottom corner, and I can change it, going to drag this around to change the way it looks. As you can see here, I can shrink it, rotate it, whatever that I want. But anyway, once I insert that what I am going to get is a action settings dialog box, and what it's asking me to do is when someone clicks this button what's going to happen. You can choose nothing, which of course sort of removes the whole point of having the button to begin with, but generally you might want to hyperlink to something else, for example, your next slide, a previous slide, the end of the show. If you scroll on down, you'll see some other options, and you can even hyperlink to a URL on the internet, another presentation, a file, or so forth. I am going to choose next slide to show you an example; I am going to click okay and then if I am in my presentation what I am going to see is the button, and notice when I hover over it, I get a little hand icon and when I click it, now I am going to the next slide. It basically gives me some button controls. Now you may be thinking if you can do that within the presentation by simply clicking, why on earth would you want to put a button on a slide? Well keep in mind that buttons actually can be really helpful when you are doing web presentations or something like that. Let's say that you are streaming a presentation over the internet and people are watching it. Well those control buttons that you've seen here actually allow people to move between slides and know exactly how to get around. Basically they are just a control management option that you can put and I can put another one here so they can go forward and back, as you can see. I can change them, resize them, make them as big as I want, and if you look at action buttons you have a number of options. For example, you can have a home button so users can click out of that and go back to your homepage at any time. A help button, information, backwards and forwards, return, go to a document, sounds or even a movie, now you can do all kinds of things with this. Let me give you one more sample and it's just something to keep in mind depending on how you are using your presentation. Let's go to a blank presentation slide and let's say that I have a movie that I want my viewers to watch and I am going to give them an action button, so they can click it and actually watch that movie. So you see here I have the action button, all they have to do is click it. But what I have got to do is create the actions settings to watch the movie. I am going to change this to hyperlink to, because what I want to do is actually go to the actual movie and I am going to go down, and I am going to do other file and what I am going to do is go to my videos, I am going to pick a movie that I have. I am going to click OK and now it's a setup that when someone watches that presentation, they can pull up this movie that's available on my computer. Click OK and let's see what happens. So when I am watching the presentation if I see a movie button I click it. What PowerPoint is going to do is open Windows Media Player and start playing the movie itself. So the point is that when you are using the presentation for an on-screen, these action buttons don't really help you, unless you just want them for your own purposes. Be careful that they don't distract from your slides, but they are greatly helpful when you are actually using the presentation over the internet. Somewhere that a user actually watches the presentation and controls it from their own computer, these action buttons can really be helpful. So keep those in mind as you move forward and from time to time you may find them very useful.