Branch to Other Locations

Need to change your presentation on the spot to suit a particular audience, or to respond to an unplanned question or line of discussion? Your presentation need not be limited to a single linear path. You can set up ways to branch from one slide to other slides, or to run other applications to display supporting data. To anticipate the needs of different audiences, you can also build contingency plans into your presentations.

Click Action Settings (Slide Show menu) to assign an action that occurs to any selected item when that item is clicked. Click Action Buttons (Slide Show menu) to create special items that have preassigned action settings, such as activating the next or previous slide, or playing a sound.

Branch to hidden slides   Perhaps a particular slide in your presentation could raise a question you don’t want to address unless specifically asked. You can place an item on the slide that, when clicked, jumps to a hidden slide containing information that addresses the question. With the item selected, click Action Settings to specify the slide you want to display. For more information, see Be Prepared with Hidden Slides.

Create Web pages

A World Wide Web site is a type of interactive presentation that you can create by using PowerPoint. For more information, see Create a Web Presentation with PowerPoint.

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