Buttons are graphics that you click to go to another location (perhaps another slide or another presentation), buy a product, subscribe to a newsletter, and so on. Most often, we think of buttons as being on a website, but you can put them in PowerPoint, too. When you put a button on a slide, you […]
Control movies with buttons
Adding movies to your PowerPoint slides is a great way to add a multimedia element — your CEO speaking to shareholders or employees, a product demo, or a computer tutorial. Play, Pause, and Stop buttons give you extra control in case you want to stop to answer questions or discuss something in more detail. They […]
Create invisible buttons
In a discussion with Dr. Pavel Samsonov, a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the topic of invisible buttons came up. I had encountered them before, so I thought I would explain. Invisible buttons are AutoShapes with no fill and no line that have a hyperlink attached to them. You use them for […]
