Right Clicking Something In Powerpoint? The 165 New Answer

Right click on something in Excel:

A. Deletes the object

B. Nothing the right mouse button is left-handed

C. Opens a context menu that lists everything you can do with the object

D. Selects the object

Answer: Variant C

Try these great shortcuts to select objects and slides in PowerPoint

from the Avantix Learning Team | Updated February 4, 2021

Applies to: Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 (Windows)

Check out these great PowerPoint shortcuts to select objects and slides.

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1. Select the objects individually in order on a slide

In Normal view, click an empty area on the slide or hold down Esc so that no objects are selected. Press Tab. Hold down Tab to move from object to object.

Specifically, tabbing order is also the reading order of a slide when read by an assistive technology program for users with visual impairments.

2. Select a placeholder on a slide

To select a placeholder on a slide in Normal view, click its border.

If you prefer to use the keyboard, press Esc until no objects are selected, and then press Tab until you select the placeholder you want.

3. Select all objects on a slide

In Normal view, click in an empty area on the slide or press Esc until no objects are selected, and then press Ctrl + A.

4. Select all text in a placeholder or text box

In Normal view, click a placeholder and then press Ctrl + A.

When using the keyboard:

Hold down ESC until no more objects are selected. Hold down Tab until the placeholder you want is selected. Press enter.

5. Selecting specific objects on a slide

Select the first object, then Shift-click subsequent objects (you can also Ctrl-click).

6. Select contiguous slides in the slide sorter

To select specific slides in the slide sorter that are next to each other, in the slide sorter view, select the first slide, and then Shift-click the last slide.

7. Select discontiguous slides in the slide sorter

To select specific slides in the slide sorter that are not adjacent, in Slide Sorter view, select the first slide, and then Ctrl-click subsequent slides.

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Lesson 31: Action Buttons

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introduction

Another tool that you can use to connect to a webpage, file, email address, or slide is called an action button. Action buttons are built-in shapes that you can add to a presentation and set to link to another slide, play a sound, or perform a similar action. When someone clicks or hovers over the button, the selected action is performed. Action buttons can do many of the same things as links. Their easy-to-understand style makes them particularly useful for self-running presentations at booths and kiosks.

Optional: Download our practice presentation.

Watch the video below to learn more about using action buttons in your presentations.

Insert action buttons

You can include action buttons on one slide at a time, or you can include an action button that appears on each slide. The second option can be useful if you want each slide to link to a specific slide, e.g. B. the title page or the table of contents.

To add an action button to a slide:

Click the Insert tab. In the Illustrations group, click the Shapes command. A dropdown menu will appear with the action buttons at the bottom. Select the desired action button. Insert the button into the slide by clicking where you want it. The Action Settings dialog box appears. Select the Mouse Click or Mouse Over tab. Selecting the Mouse Click tab means that the action button will only perform its action when clicked. If you select the Mouse Over tab, the action button will perform its action when you mouse over it. In the Action on click section, select Hyperlink to:, then click the drop-down arrow and choose an option from the menu. Select the Play sound check box if you want a sound to play when the action button is clicked. Choose a sound from the drop-down menu or select Other Sound to use a sound file on your computer. When you’re done, click OK.

To add an action button to all slides:

If you want to add an action button to every slide, you can do that with a feature called Slide Master View. However, using slide master view can be tricky if you’ve never used it before. If you want to edit your slides this way, you should check out our Slide Master View lesson first.

Click the View tab. In the Master Views group, click the Slide Master command. In the left navigation pane, scroll up and select the first slide. Go to the Insert tab and select an action button at the bottom of the Shapes menu. Click on the slide to add the action button and select the options you want from the dialog box that appears. Return to the Slide Master tab and click Close Master View. The new action button is now on every slide.

To edit, move, or delete an action button inserted this way, click the View tab, then click Slide Master. Click Close Master View after making any desired changes.

If you find that certain slides don’t show an action button, you may need to uncheck the Hide background graphics check box.

To test an action button:

After you create an action button, you should test it.

Click the Slide Show tab. In the Start Slide Show group, click From Current Slide. Click your action button. After you’ve tested it, right-click anywhere on the screen and choose End Show. If your action button didn’t work as intended, follow the instructions below to edit it.

To edit an action button:

Select the action button. Click the Insert tab. In the Links group, click the Action command. The Action Settings dialog box appears. Edit the action or hyperlink, and then click OK.

To change the appearance of an action button:

Select the action button. Click the Format tab. To change the style or color of the button, use the tools in the Shape Styles group. To change the shape of the action button, in the Insert Shapes group, click Edit Shape. Choose a new shape from the drop-down menu.

Challenge!

Open our practice presentation. Open Slide Master view. In the left navigation pane, scroll up and select the first slide. In the lower-right corner of the slide, insert the Action button: Information. Link the action button to the last slide. Change the shape style of your action button to one of the green styles. When you’re done, your slide master should look like this: Close the master view, play your slideshow, and test your action button.

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Customize PowerPoint’s right-click pop-up menus

problem

PowerPoint is generally good at guessing what commands you might want to use in any given situation and automatically putting them in the pop-up menu you get when you right-click almost anything.

But sometimes it doesn’t bring what you want there. We’ll show you how to fix that.

Customize the context menu (or “shortcut menu”)

We’ll add a Paste Content command to the pop-up menu you get when you right-click the slide you’re working on. These instructions are for PowerPoint 2002 or 2003. Earlier versions may work differently; later versions do not allow this type of customization.

Choose Tools, Customize from the main menu bar.

In the Customize dialog box, click the Toolbars tab.

In the list of toolbars, look for “Context Menus” and place a check mark next to it.

A context menu toolbar appears. Find it on your screen.

Click the Commands tab

In the category list on the left, click Edit.

In the list of commands on the right, look for Paste Special (or whatever command interests you).

Drag the command to the Draw button on the context menus toolbar and pause while the menu opens. Don’t let go of the mouse button.

Continue dragging down to the slide background. Hold down the mouse button while waiting for the Slide Background menu to open.

Drag onto the newly opened pop-up menu and release the mouse button when the highlight bar is where you want the new menu item to appear.

Press ESC to exit and close the Customize dialog.

Now copy something to the clipboard, right click on the slide and voila… Paste Special is now in the popup menu.

Spend a little time studying the various menus (and the items within them) on the Shortcuts toolbar while you have it open. It’s a bit confusing at first because you’re not actually customizing a toolbar, but rather the context menu that appears when you right-click different things. For example, you might want to add other commands to the context menu that you get when you select a shape or edit text. By selecting the correct context menu toolbar button and the menu name below it, you can easily do this.

On the slide, select the box that contains your text.

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Create a popup effect when you mouse over an object in PowerPoint

from the Avantix Learning Team | Updated March 16, 2021

Applies to: Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 (Windows)

You can create a pop-up effect in PowerPoint when you move the pointer or mouse over text, images, or other objects. When you hover over an object during a slide show, you can make PowerPoint jump to another slide to make an object appear as a pop-up. To create this kind of effect you need to use action settings and animations. The pop-up effect occurs when you hover the mouse pointer over certain objects during a slide show.

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Creating a hover-over popup effect by linking to another slide

You can create a hover-over popup effect by creating a slide, duplicating it, and then linking the two slides. The idea is that when you hover over an object during a slideshow, the object that pops up is actually on a different slide.

To create a two-slide hover-over effect:

In Normal view, display the slide that contains the object you want to hover over. Duplicate the slide (you can right-click the slide in the thumbnails and press Ctrl + D to duplicate it). The popup shape would be pasted on the duplicate. The shape can be a text box or a callout shape to resemble a popup. Add the shape that you want to appear as a popup on the second slide. Go to the first slide and select the shape or other object you want to hover over. On the ribbon, click the Insert tab. In the Links group, select Action or Action Settings. In the Action Settings dialog box, click the Mouse Over tab. Select Slide… from the drop-down list under Link to. A dialog box will appear. Select the second slide. Click OK twice. Go to the second slide and select the shape you want to hover over. On the ribbon, click the Insert tab. In the Links group, select Action or Action Settings. In the Action Settings dialog box, click the Mouse Over tab. From the Hyperlink to drop-down list, select Last Slide Viewed. This would return to the previous slide.

The Action Settings dialog box contains several options on the Mouse Over tab:

Adding animation to create popup effect

To create a hover over popup effect, you need to add animation to the object on the second slide:

Go to the second slide and select the shape you added. On the ribbon, click the Animations tab. In the Animations group, click the More down arrow in the lower-right corner of the Animations gallery. Select “More Entrance Effects” from the drop-down menu. A dialog box will appear. In the Basic group, click Peek In. click OK. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Effect Options. A drop-down menu will appear. Select From below (so that the object shows up). On the Animations tab, in the Timing group, choose With Previous from the Start drop-down menu.

Peek In appears in the More Entrance Effects dialog box:

Preview the effect in a slide show

The final step is to run the slideshow to test the popup. Click the Slideshow button at the bottom right of the screen. Hover over the object on the first slide and then over the object on the second slide to test the effect.

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This article will show you how to create mouseover text effect in PowerPoint. The secret of this work is to use the tooltip functionality of hyperlinks in PowerPoint.

This effect is also known as popup text effect, mouse hover effect, image popup effect, etc.

Regardless of what you call it, the effect is the same, and it is Hyperlinks’ ScreenTip feature that allows you to do this, as you can see in the image below.

And while you can use hyperlinks to make your presentations more interactive, it’s often this tooltip feature of hyperlinks that is most useful.

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To expand your knowledge and learn how to insert, remove, and change color of hyperlinks in PowerPoint, read our guide here.

Creating the mouseover effect (step by step)

Don’t worry if this is your first time creating this effect in PowerPoint. This may seem complicated at first glance, but it is simple and straightforward.

Again, the trick is to use the tooltip feature of hyperlinks in PowerPoint to display this pop-up text effect when you hover over an object. Just follow these steps to get started.

1. Insert a hyperlink

Select the object for which you want to display the mouse cursor text and launch the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, which you have two options for:

Method #1: Right-click the object and select “Hyperlink” from the context menu to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.

Way #2: Press Ctrl+K on your keyboard to paste the hyperlink

If you plan to insert a lot of hyperlinks, we recommend that you remember the hyperlink key combination (Ctrl+K).

2. Navigate to Place in this document

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, navigate to the Place in This Document section on the left, and then select the slide on the right where you are creating the hyperlink.

Not only does this ensure that if you accidentally activate the hyperlink when presenting your presentation (by clicking on it), you stay on the same slide within your presentation, but it also opens up the tooltip functionality, which we’ll use in the next step.

3. Open the tooltip dialog box

Complete the following steps to add the text that you want to appear when you hover over your object:

Click the Tooltip command. Enter your mouseover text. Click OK

In this example, I entered the number of electoral votes for the voting card I created.

How much text can you put in a tooltip in PowerPoint?

The tooltip you enter is limited to 256 characters (including spaces and punctuation marks). 256 characters is approximately 49 words, so choose your mouseover text wisely.

Below are what the text limits are to get a feel for how much text you can put in your tooltip. Less is more as tooltips are always displayed as small text.

Note: There is no spell checking feature in the Set Hyperlink Tooltip dialog box, so check your spelling before closing the ToolTip dialog box. Once you have your tooltip text ready, click OK to close the hyperlink dialog boxes and return to your slide.

4. Display your mouseover text

After you’ve added your tooltip text, all you have to do to see the tooltip is run your slideshow and hover over the object.

Press Shift+F5 to run your presentation. Hover your mouse over your object and wait a second

In slideshow mode, hover your mouse pointer over the hyperlinked item and the screen tip should appear showing your text.

Note that if you set the hyperlink to navigate to that specific slide, even if you accidentally click the object, you’ll stay here on the same slide in your presentation.

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Note: If you convert your PowerPoint presentation to PDF file format, all screen tips will be lost. To learn more about what PowerPoint features you lose when converting to PDF file format, read our guide here.

Conclusion

This screen tap trick is great for creating interactive presentations and graphics that you want to walk someone through in your presentation.

Just remember to use these effects sparingly to emphasize a point. The last thing you want to do is add this effect everywhere and reduce its effectiveness.

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Different buttons of a computer mouse

This resource explains the functions of various buttons on Windows and Apple computer mice.

Windows mouse

The left button

The left button of a mouse is the standard button used for clicking, selecting, dragging, highlighting a word and/or object, and as a pointer.

functions

To open a file or program

Place the mouse pointer over the file or program you want to start and quickly double-click the left mouse button.

NOTE: If you click slowly, DO NOT start the file or program you want to use.

To select and highlight an object or text

To select an object or icon on your screen, press the left mouse button once while the pointer is positioned over the desired object you wish to select. The object is then highlighted.

However, if you want to select multiple files or text, press the left mouse button and drag the mouse cursor over the files or text you want to select. This will highlight multiple files or text.

To select a word, quickly double-click the left mouse button (as you did previously to start a file or program) while the pointer is over the word you want to select. The word will then be highlighted.

To select a sentence, left-click three times at the beginning of the sentence. This will then highlight everything in that sentence.

To drag and drop

To drag an object and place it somewhere else, select the object you want to move to another area by pressing the left mouse button once. This highlights the object.

Then, while holding down the left mouse button, move your mouse to the area where you want the object and release the left mouse button. The object is now placed in the new area.

The right button

The right mouse button is typically used to provide additional information and/or properties of a selected item.

For example, when highlighting a word in Microsoft Word, pressing the right button brings up a drop-down menu containing the options to cut, copy, paste, change the font, etc. Alternatively, if you press the right button on a highlighted word on a webpage, you’ll get a drop-down menu to copy, select all, search Google for “highlighted word”, etc.

functions

To copy and paste

To copy and paste using the right mouse button, you must first select the word or item by highlighting it and then press the right mouse button and the options should appear.

The scroll wheel

The scroll wheel, located in the center of the mouse, is used to scroll up and down any page without using the vertical scroll bar on the right side of a document or webpage.

The scroll wheel can also be used as the third button on the mouse. For example, instead of pressing the left button to click a link on a web page, you can press the scroll wheel just once and the link will appear in a new web browser tab. You can also close a tab by clicking on it with the scroll wheel.

You can also press and press the scroll wheel down to scroll up and down a document and page faster than pressing the scroll wheel with your finger.

The side buttons

The side buttons are programmed to perform actions such as B. moving backwards or forwards through web pages in a web browser.

Mac mouse

All the features of a Mac mouse are quite similar to a Windows mouse as it has a left button, a right button and a side button, but it also includes a 360° scroll ball and the side buttons.

360° scroll ball

The 360° scrollball not only allows you to move up and down on a page, but also side to side and diagonally to view the entire document or web page if it doesn’t fully fit the specified area.

Side buttons

The side buttons are force-sensing buttons that can be configured through your preferences to activate Mac OS X features like the Dashboard or a whole host of other customizable features.

A context menu is a pop-up menu that provides shortcuts for actions that the software developer expects the user to perform.

In a Windows environment, the context menu is invoked with a right mouse click. For example, when the end user right-clicks in a Word document, the pop-up menu contains shortcuts for undo, cut, copy, and paste. However, when the end user right-clicks in Excel, the context menu also contains shortcuts for Insert Cell, Delete Cell, Paste Special and other commands commonly used for this program.

User interaction with context menus depends on the computing device, its operating system (OS), and its input mechanisms. For example, if the user does not have a mouse, they can access context menus by pressing a key combination, pressing and holding a trackball, tapping a touch screen, or placing two fingers on a touch pad. Context menus can be closed by selecting an action or by clicking in the open area outside of the menu area.

Windows 7 and Windows 8 allow users to change the operating system context menu to add desired actions or remove unused options. However, this requires extensive knowledge of the Windows registry or the help of third-party tools such as ShellNewHandler or New Menu Editor.

Click where you want to insert the picture on the slide.

On the Insert tab, in the Pictures group, click Online Pictures .

(PowerPoint 2013) In the Bing Image Search box, type what you’re looking for and press Enter.

or

(Newer versions) Make sure Bing appears on the left in the drop-down list of sources to search. Type what you are looking for in the field and press Enter.

Use the size, type, color, layout, and licensing filters to customize the results to your liking.