Using hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are a great way to connect your presentation to other slides, presentations, documents, and the Web. You can use hyperlinks for the following:

To enable you to jump to other slides quickly
To switch to another presentation
To open another file, such as a Word document or Excel spreadsheet
To display a Web page
To open an e-mail to someone

To create a hyperlink, select an object. It can be an AutoShape (shape), placeholder, or the text itself. If you select text, the text will have an underline and become the hyperlink color in the color scheme (theme colors). Then choose Insert> Hyperlink. (In 2007, Insert tab> Links group> Hyperlink.)

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, choose the type of link on the left:

Existing File or Web Page
Place in This Document
Create New Document
E-mail Address

Then locate the slide or file, enter the Web URL, or enter an e-mail address. Click OK.

Hyperlinks work only in Slide Show view. Always test your hyperlinks.

When you add a hyperlink to a presentation, you must be careful that the target of the hyperlink is available. If you are giving the presentation offsite using a laptop, all the targets need to be on the laptop as well, unless your laptop is actively connected to the Internet. An alternative is to copy Web site documents you think you will need to your laptop and hyperlink to those documents. The advantage is that you don’t have to depend on getting a good Internet connection at your offsite location.

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RICHARD REED

January 17, 2011 at 10:52 am

I HAVE CREATED SOME TRAINING PPPRESENTATIONS AND WANT TO KNOW
IF THERE IS A WAY TO PUBLISH THE PRESENTATION WITH ITS HYPERLINKS.
MICROSOFT 2007 AND 2010 WILL LET ME PUBLISH TO A FILE OR A CDR, BUT
FOR SOME REASON WHEN I PLAY THE CD BACK IT HAS BLIMISHES AND MANY POOR
TEXT SPOTS. I CAN NOT GET A PERFECT TRAINING PRESENTATION. I HAVE WORKED ON
ONE PRESENTATION FOR DAYS AND NO MADDER WHAT I DO I HAVE AT LEAST
TWO TO THREE BAD SPOTS ON THE CD.

DICK REED

Ellen

January 17, 2011 at 2:51 pm

If you use the Publish to CD feature, there shouldn’t be any negative effect on the presentation. You might want to troubleshoot by playing the presentation in Slide Show view on different computers, playing the DVD on different computers, and trying different presentations.

By the way, using the Publish to CD feature doesn’t create a native DVD. To do that, you need to convert the presentation to a video and burn that to a DVD, in which case you lose the hyperlinks.

melissa

March 9, 2011 at 3:10 am

im trying to create a jeopardy game with powerpoint but i dont know how to make it look loke my numbers are disapering once i click on thm. is there a way to change the color one i clicked a number of have disapear?? please help!!! school project!
-thanks

March 9, 2011 at 10:20 am

I sell a Jeopardy-like game at http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/estore/jeopardy_like_quiz_game.html. It’s $5.79 and you can download a demo to see if it’s what you want.
Have you used the trigger feature? It makes an animation happen when you click an object. Here’s an explanation of one use of triggers: http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/powerpoint_tip_interactive_chart_with_triggers.html.

Anders

October 24, 2011 at 5:35 am

Hi,

I’m trying to create a presentation that moves forward (or backwards) through the pages only when clicking on a hyperlink. Is it possible to “stop” a presentation after 2-3 pages to avoid users going forward with mouse/keyboard clicks?