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This document provides instructions for creating different types of hyperlinks in PowerPoint, including linking to other slides, emails, web pages, and new files. It explains how to select the text or object to use as the hyperlink, open the Insert tab, click Hyperlink, choose what type of item to link to under Link to, and follow the specified steps. For example, to link to another slide, select the item to link, choose Place in This Document, and select the desired slide. The document also notes considerations for linking to files outside the current presentation.

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PowerPoint Help File

This document provides instructions for creating different types of hyperlinks in PowerPoint, including linking to other slides, emails, web pages, and new files. It explains how to select the text or object to use as the hyperlink, open the Insert tab, click Hyperlink, choose what type of item to link to under Link to, and follow the specified steps. For example, to link to another slide, select the item to link, choose Place in This Document, and select the desired slide. The document also notes considerations for linking to files outside the current presentation.

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Create a hyperlink - PowerPoint

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Create a hyperlink
In PowerPoint, a hyperlink can be a connection from one slide to another slide in the same presentation (such as a hyperlink to a
custom show) or to a slide in another presentation, an e-mail address, a Web page, or a file.
You can create a hyperlink from text or from an object, such as a picture, graph, shape, or WordArt.

Create a hyperlink to:


A slide in the same presentation
A slide in a different presentation
An e-mail address
A page or file on the Web
A new file

A slide in the same presentation


1. In Normal view, select the text or the object that you want to use as a hyperlink.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click Hyperlink.
3. Under Link to, click Place in This Document.
4. Do one of the following:

Link to a custom show in the current presentation:


i. Under Select a place in this document, click the custom show that you want to use as the hyperlink destination.
ii. Select the Show and return check box.

Link to a slide in the current presentation:


i. Under Select a place in this document, click the slide that you want to use as the hyperlink destination.

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A slide in a different presentation


NOTE:If you add a link to a presentation from your main presentation, and then copy your main presentation to a laptop, be

sure to copy the linked presentation to the same folder as your main presentation. If you don't copy the linked presentation
or if you rename, move, or delete it the linked presentation will not be available when you click the hyperlink to it from the
main presentation.
1. In Normal view, select the text or the object that you want to use as a hyperlink.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click Hyperlink.
3. Under Link to, click Existing File or Web Page.
4. Locate the presentation that contains the slide that you want to link to.
5. Click Bookmark, and then click the title of the slide that you want to link to.

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An e-mail address
1. In Normal view, select the text or the object that you want to use as a hyperlink.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click Hyperlink.
3. Under Link to, click E-mail Address.
4. In the E-mail address box, type the e-mail address that you want to link to, or in the Recently used e-mail addresses box,

click an e-mail address.


5. In the Subject box, type the subject of the e-mail message.

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A page or file on the Web


1. In Normal view, select the text or the object that you want to use as a hyperlink.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click Hyperlink.
3. Under Link to, click Existing File or Web Page, and then click Browse the Web

4. Locate and select the page or file that you want to link to, and then click OK.

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A new file
1. In Normal view, select the text or the object that you want to use as a hyperlink.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Links group, click click Hyperlink.
3. Under Link to, click Create New Document.
4. In the Name of new document box, type the name of the file that you want to create and link to.

If you want to create a document in a different location, under Full path, click Change, browse to the location where you
want to create the file, and then click OK.
5. Under When to edit, click whether you want to change the file now or later.

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