WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:08.570 --> 00:00:12.200 Hyperlinks in PowerPoint act just like the links you find online. 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:18.070 They have their own display text - for example, "USA.gov Retirement Resources" - and also 00:00:18.070 --> 00:00:25.490 an email address, web page, or some other location that they're linked. 00:00:25.490 --> 00:00:30.640 I'd like show you how to turn text into a link starting here. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:34.930 All you have to do is go to the Insert tab, then Hyperlink. 00:00:34.930 --> 00:00:40.379 In this dialog box, you can see the text the link is going to display and edit it if you 00:00:40.379 --> 00:00:42.559 need to. 00:00:42.559 --> 00:00:47.719 You can also enter a web address here. 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:53.350 When you're done, click OK, and the text turns into a hyperlink. 00:00:53.350 --> 00:00:56.410 Why don't we try linking to something else, like an email address? 00:00:56.410 --> 00:01:00.379 I think it would be nice if new employees could click this person's name to contact 00:01:00.379 --> 00:01:02.260 Human Resources. 00:01:02.260 --> 00:01:07.410 This time, I'm going to right-click the text, and choose Hyperlink here instead of going 00:01:07.410 --> 00:01:10.289 to the Insert tab. 00:01:10.289 --> 00:01:19.299 Now click Email Address, and just enter the recipient's email address here. 00:01:19.299 --> 00:01:22.720 Other options include linking to a file on your computer. 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:26.490 For example, I'd like to be able to pull up the Employee Benefits Guide, which happens 00:01:26.490 --> 00:01:28.160 to be a Word document. 00:01:28.160 --> 00:01:36.360 Again just right-click, go to Hyperlink, and choose Existing File or Web Page. 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:40.900 Here you can navigate to any file on your computer, and double-click the one you want 00:01:40.900 --> 00:01:43.090 to create a link. 00:01:43.090 --> 00:01:47.350 Keep in mind: Your link to another file may not work if you plan to send your PowerPoint 00:01:47.350 --> 00:01:50.049 out, or present it on a different computer. 00:01:50.049 --> 00:01:54.259 Make sure you have a copy of the linked file on the computer you're using to present, and 00:01:54.259 --> 00:01:57.670 always test your hyperlinks before giving a presentation. 00:01:57.670 --> 00:02:03.430 To test, just right-click, and go to Open Hyperlink. 00:02:03.430 --> 00:02:05.750 This one's working just. 00:02:05.750 --> 00:02:11.540 Other things you can access by right-clicking any of your links: the ability to edit the 00:02:11.540 --> 00:02:15.180 hyperlink… or remove it. 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:19.230 There's one more type of link I'd like to try, at the beginning of my presentation where 00:02:19.230 --> 00:02:21.359 I have a sort of table of contents. 00:02:21.359 --> 00:02:26.130 I'd like the viewer to be able to click on an item to go to that place in the presentation. 00:02:26.130 --> 00:02:30.600 And instead of making the text the hyperlink, we can use the whole shape itself. 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:34.760 This way the viewer can click anywhere on the shape to jump to that slide. 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:37.610 Let's start with "About Ad Works". 00:02:37.610 --> 00:02:44.180 Just select the shape, right click, and select hyperlink. 00:02:44.180 --> 00:02:50.100 Now to link this to another slide, go to Place in This Document, and you can choose from 00:02:50.100 --> 00:02:53.109 a list of slides with a little preview to the right. 00:02:53.109 --> 00:02:57.200 Here's the one we want to link to. 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:00.220 Keep going until your table of contents is complete. 00:03:00.220 --> 00:03:03.670 And don't be afraid to get creative - there are lots of things you can do with the ability 00:03:03.670 --> 00:03:05.820 to link to other slides. 00:03:05.820 --> 00:03:11.900 Let's try out one of these links out in Slide Show View. 00:03:11.900 --> 00:03:12.900 See that? 00:03:12.900 --> 00:03:16.720 I was just on slide 2 – and now I'm on slide 11. 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:20.540 Using hyperlinks in your presentation is a quick way to make navigating to resources 00:03:20.540 --> 00:03:26.409 online, referring to another slide, or accessing files, easy and convenient for your audience.