
Microsoft Power Point
Advanced Slide Effects and Audio and Video Embedding
Use the action button toolbar to add functioning buttons to
slides in a presentation.
- Select Slide Show on the Menu Toolbar.
- Select Action Buttons from the menu bar to open the Actions Button dialog
box.
- Click the bar across the top of the button menu and drag it off the
menu so it becomes a floating toolbar.

- Click one of the button faces and draw the button on the slide using
the mouse.
- The Action Settings menu will then appear.

- Set the actions under either the Mouse Click or Mouse Over tabs. Actions
specified for Mouse Click will execute when the button is clicked on the
slide while actions for Mouse Over will occur when the mouse pointer hovers
over the button.
- Select an action for the button by choosing a Hyperlink to destination.
If you want a sound to be played when the button is clicked, check the
Play sound box and choose a sound from the drop-down menu.
- Click OK when finished.
- The button on the slide can be resized using the white box handles and
the depth of the button can be changed by dragging the yellow diamond.
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Adding Notes
From Normal View, notes can be added to the slide.

These notes will not be seen on your presentation, but they
can be printed out on paper along with the slide the notes refer to by:
- Select File on the Menu Toolbar.
- Select Print form the drop-down list.
- At the Print What drop down list, you will have four choices:
- Slides
- Handouts
- Notes Page
- Outline View
- Selecting Notes Pages on the Print menu.
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To add a video to your presentation:
- Click Insert from the Menu Toolbar, and then select Movies and Sounds.
- Select Movie from File for a file you have saved to a disk or folder
on the hard drive.
- To insert an animation from Microsoft's gallery choose Insert on the
Menu Toolbar, and then select Movies and Sounds.
- Select Movie from Gallery.
- Select the video file and click OK.
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To add sound to your presentation:
- Select Insert from the Menu Toolbar, and then select Movies and Sounds.
- Sound from Gallery or Sound from File.
- Select a sound file and click OK.
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