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Use PowerPoint to create buttons for slides or a website

June 3, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 3 Comments

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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 […]

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Filed Under: Images, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: buttons, hyperlink, PowerPoint buttons, web buttons

Control movies with buttons

January 16, 2002 by Ellen Finkelstein 8 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Multimedia: Music, sound & video Tagged With: buttons, graphics, movies, PowerPoint, presentations, slides

Create invisible buttons

August 8, 2001 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Hyperlinks Tagged With: buttons, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007, presentations, slides

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