Acrobat Back Button link

Hi-
Does anyone know how to create a button within a PDF document that returns you to the previous slide/page?
ie: I am on page 3, and I click a menu link that takes me to page 10... I want to go back to page 3 by pressing a 'back' button on the image.
Is this possible?
Thanks.

After a bit more digging about the archives I have placed the following into the header
<style>
@media print {.ScreenOnly {display:none}}
</style>
<span class="ScreenOnly">
<form>
<input type='BUTTON' value="Print this page" onClick="window.print()">
<form>
<form>
<input type='BUTTON' value="Back" onClick="window.history.back()">
<form>
</span>
This creates two dinky buttons at the top of the page.
One thing though
Is it possible to join the two comands into the same button?
I mean can you get a button that prints then goes back automaticaly?
Cheers
Bjorn

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