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hyperlinks in PowerPoint Act - just like
the links you find online they have
their own display text for example
usa.gov retirement resources and also an
email address web page or some other
location that they're linked to
I'd like to show you how to turn text
into a link starting here all you have
to do is go to the insert tab then
hyperlink in this dialog box you can see
the text the link is going to display
and change it if you need to you can
also enter a web address here
when you're done click okay and the text
turns into a hyperlink why don't we try
linking to something else maybe an email
address I think it would be nice if new
employees could click this person's name
to contact human resources this time I'm
going to right click the text and choose
hyperlink here instead of going to the
insert tab now click email address and
just enter the recipient's email address
here
other options include linking to a file
on your computer for example I'd like to
be able to pull up the employee benefits
guide which happens to be a Word
document again just right-click go to
hyperlink and choose existing file or
webpage here you can navigate to any
file on your computer
and double-click the one you want to
create a link keep in mind your link to
another file may not work if you plan to
send your PowerPoint out or present it
on a different computer make sure you
have a copy of the linked file on the
computer you're using to present and
always test your hyperlinks before
giving a presentation to test just
right-click and go to open hyperlink
looks like this one's working just fine
other things you can access by
right-clicking any of your links
includes the ability to edit the
hyperlink or remove it there's one more
type of link I'd like to try at the
beginning of my presentation where I
have sort of a table of contents
I'd like the viewer to be able to click
on an item to go to that place in the
presentation and instead of making the
text the hyperlink we can use the hole
shape itself this way the viewer can
click anywhere on the shape to jump to
that slide let's start with about ad
works just select the shape right click
and select hyperlink now to link this to
another slide go to place in this
document and you can choose from a list
of slides with a little preview to the
right here's the one we want to link to
keep going until your table of contents
is complete and don't be afraid to get
creative there are lots of things you
can do with the ability to link to other
slides
let's try one of these out in the
slideshow view
see that I was just on slide 2 and now
I'm on slide 11 these hyperlinks are
going to be a big help to me and also to
anyone who views the presentation on
their own