Office 2013 In Depth

Creating an Interactive Presentation

If you are considering creating a slide show for a trade show booth or some other venue where the audience for the show consists of only one or two people at a time, you might want to give your audience the capability to control the show instead of creating a self-running show. Obviously, turning over control to your audience is fraught with danger, but you might find that more people are likely to tune in if they can interact with it instead of just passively standing by and watching it.

You can use action buttons to place different controls on the slides, meaning that you place the action button on a slide, and a particular action takes place when it is clicked. Action buttons can perform all sorts of different ...