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Using action buttons. Action buttons are graphics or shapes that you put on your PowerPoint slide that actually do something or they take, you guessed it, an action and let's take a look at how those work. We're going to go up to our shapes, scroll all the way down to the bottom and we have various action buttons that we can select. Ok? And this gives you a little preview of what they are and you can use your imagination with these; if you want to go to a website, if you want to create a sound effect, create some more information. Let's go ahead and just do a sound one here and again, it's going to give me, just like any other shape, a cursor or a series of crosshairs that I can use to define the size and proportions of that shape. Ok? Let me get this out of the way over here. And once that's done, I'm given the action settings dialog box and I can choose that the action will take place when the mouse clicks on that shape or when I run the mouse over that shape. And here's my choices. I can have nothing happen, I can hyperlink to the next slide, previous slide, first slide, so forth and so on. I can even go to another PowerPoint presentation, another file or even a website if you're connected. Now, when you do this for real, if you're making a presentation in front of your audience, you have to hope that you have a good Internet connection and that everything will work. I would suggest not launching to a website unless you can guarantee you can have a chance to practice that when you click this button, that that website's going to pop up. If not, you're going to have a very long, pregnant pause and maybe a little egg on your face. We can also run a program, run a macro, if you've decided to create a macro, we are not getting into that level of detail here, or an object action. You can also play a sound. Now, in this case, I don't want anything to happen, but I do want a sound to be played when we click on this and let's see what our standard options are here. I can pick other sounds, but I want to go with a drum roll and I'm going to click OK. Now, nothing happens when we click this here. In order to hear our sound and see how this works, we need to actually run the slideshow. So let's see how that works. I'm going to go down here and click slideshow. This will take us to our current slide. Now, when I mouse over this, nothing happens, but notice I get a little hand that's telling me to do something, so I need to click. Tada! We have our sound. So let me hit escape to get back. So you can see what you can do with various action buttons to move from slides, play sounds, launch websites, so forth and so on. So use them with care and if you do use them, make sure they work and that you test them before you go live.