Demo: Assign an action to a built-in button or picture

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An action button is a built-in button shape, clip art, text in a SmartArt graphic, or picture that you can add to your presentation and then assign an action to. The action can occur when you or another presenter clicks or mouses over the action button. Use an action button to:

• Go to the next slide, the previous slide, the first slide, the last slide, the most recent slide viewed, a specific slide number, a different Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation, or a Web page.
• Run a program.
• Run a macro (macro: An action or a set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.).
• Play a sound.

How to do it (text version):

• Assign an action to a built-in button or picture
• Change the action settings of a button, picture, or clip art

 Note   This demo does not cover animation of buttons or pictures. For more information about animation, see Animate text or objects and Demo: Add animation and sound to text and objects in a presentation.