Exercise: creating an interactive PowerPoint presentation

The steps below utilize PowerPoint 2013 on Windows. Other versions of PowerPoint may require a slightly different approach but any differences should be relatively easy to figure out. Also, the exercise assumes that the Developer toolbar is activated. If the Developer toolbar is not activated for your instance of PowerPoint, a quick search on developer tab PowerPoint will provide instructions.

Follow along the exercise steps:

  1. Create a new PowerPoint file with a single blank slide.
  2. Select the Developer tab in the ribbon and click on the Command Button icon located in the Controls group:
  1. In the lower left-hand portion of the slide, create a CommandButton by clicking and dragging. ...

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