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This guide explains how to add hyperlinks in PowerPoint presentations, enabling non-linear navigation to slides, documents, web pages, and email addresses. It includes step-by-step instructions for linking to various objects and highlights limitations regarding certain PowerPoint elements. Additionally, it offers tips for using hyperlinks effectively in educational contexts and online presentations.

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Hyperlink

This guide explains how to add hyperlinks in PowerPoint presentations, enabling non-linear navigation to slides, documents, web pages, and email addresses. It includes step-by-step instructions for linking to various objects and highlights limitations regarding certain PowerPoint elements. Additionally, it offers tips for using hyperlinks effectively in educational contexts and online presentations.

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Hyperlinks make a presentation non-linear by connecting it with

other slides, documents and web pages. This guide demonstrates


how to add hyperlinks to a PowerPoint presentation, so that they
work both on a local computer and online. You’ll also learn other
PowerPoint tricks, such as linking to a YouTube video, changing
hyperlink color, configuring navigation and others that diversify the
use of hyperlinks in education.
How to add a hyperlink to:
Particular slides
Existing documents
New documents
Web pages
Email addresses

What PowerPoint objects can be


assigned with a hyperlink?
The options aren’t limited to texts and pictures; below you will find a
list of all options available when it comes to manipulating a
hyperlink in PowerPoint.
Other PowerPoint objects such as video and graphs can’t be assigned with
hyperlinks. If you use SmartArt objects or stylized text and plan to publish
your presentation online, we recommend you read about advanced hyperlink
techniques.

How to add a hyperlink to another slide


1. Select the desired object on your slide. Go to the Insert tab and click
the Link button as demonstrated in the picture.

2. In the dialog box, click Place in this Document under Link to.
Choose the slide in your presentation that you wish to use as a
destination, then click OK.
If you have created a custom slideshow (a certain sequence of slides) and
you want to connect your object with it, click Custom Shows. Then tick
the Show and return checkbox.
How to add a hyperlink to an existing
document
You may connect your presentation to a document on your
computer, for example another presentation, or even a particular
slide in it. However, if you then move your project to another PC,
you’ll need to copy the connected document to the same folder. The
link won’t work in cases where you don’t copy the presentation, or
you rename, move or delete it.
Also note that if you plan to publish your presentation online, you’ll
need to convert all the connected presentations to online format
and use the resulting web pages rather than the source .pptx files.
You can learn how to do it here.

1. Select an object on your slide, then go to the Insert tab and click
the Link button.

2. Click Existing File or Web Page under Link to.


3. Locate and select the document that you want to use as a
destination, then click OK.
4. If you wish to link a slide in another presentation, locate and
select that presentation on your computer. Then click Bookmark,
and in the open window choose the relevant slide.

How to add a hyperlink to a web page


1. Select a relevant object on your slide, then go to the Insert tab and
click the Link button.

2. Click Existing File or Web Page under Link to.


3. In the address field, type in the address of the web page you wish
to add, then click OK.
4. If you want to add a hyperlink to a certain place on the webpage,
you can either use the anchor in the website address OR
the Bookmark option.
You can follow the steps above to add a hyperlink to a video from a video
hosting website, such as YouTube or Vimeo. However, there’s a way to insert
an online video right in your presentation, so that it can be played back
without having to interrupt the playback and open a browser. To learn how to
do that, read these articles on how to insert a YouTube video into an online
presentationand how to add a Vimeo video to a presentation.

How to add a hyperlink to a new


document
Note that this type of hyperlink can only be used in PowerPoint; it
won’t work in a web browser when sharing a presentation online.

1. To add a hyperlink to a new file, select an object on your slide. Go to


the Insert tab and click the Linkbutton.
2. Click Create New Document under Link to.

3. By default, a new document is created in the same folder with the


presentation’s source file. If you want to change the location,
click Change under Full path, select the desired location, and then
click OK.
4. Enter the name of a new file in the Name of new
document field, then click OK.
5. Under When to edit, choose if you want to Edit the new
document later or Edit the new document now.

How to add a hyperlink to an email


address
1. Select an object on your slide, then go to the Insert tab and click
the Link button.

2. Click E-mail Address under Link to.


3. Type in the appropriate e-mail address in the E-mail
address box.
4. Optionally, you may indicate the subject of your e-mail message
in the Subject box.

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