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Using Powerpoint To Present Research Results

This document provides guidance on using hyperlinks in PowerPoint presentations to display data charts, tables, video clips, and other files. It recommends: 1) Planning hyperlinks in advance and saving the PowerPoint file before inserting them. 2) Using hyperlinks to display charts and tables created in programs like Excel, Word, and Acrobat. These allow interacting with data during presentations. 3) Inserting hyperlinks as buttons using the Action Buttons feature or drawing shapes, and setting them to activate on mouse click or hover. 4) Opening linked applications and minimizing them before presentations for quick access to hyperlinks.

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87 views

Using Powerpoint To Present Research Results

This document provides guidance on using hyperlinks in PowerPoint presentations to display data charts, tables, video clips, and other files. It recommends: 1) Planning hyperlinks in advance and saving the PowerPoint file before inserting them. 2) Using hyperlinks to display charts and tables created in programs like Excel, Word, and Acrobat. These allow interacting with data during presentations. 3) Inserting hyperlinks as buttons using the Action Buttons feature or drawing shapes, and setting them to activate on mouse click or hover. 4) Opening linked applications and minimizing them before presentations for quick access to hyperlinks.

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Levi Buencamino
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Using PowerPoint

to
Present Research
Results
Best Used For

Slides with this format are best used


• For detailing management-research question
hierarchy
• For detailing methodology
• For detailing data limitations
• For summarizing verbal findings
• For detailing recommendations based on data
analysis
Use Hyperlinks in PowerPoint

• To display data charts


• To display data tables
• To insert video clips of respondent answers
To employ hyperlinks

• Plan a hyperlink
• Prepare charts and tables in Word, Excel, Acrobat,
or other software
• Determine if text or button will represent the
hyperlink
• Save your PowerPoint presentation before
inserting hyperlinks and before testing
hyperlinks in Slide Show view
Types of files for hyperlinks
• Acrobat
• Allows easy mouse control of part of page seen.
• For detailed tables
• For large graphic displays
• Can access the entire written report, allowing
you to move to any page of that report.
Types of files for hyperlinks
• Excel
• For data displays where “what if” scenarios are
needed during the presentation.
• Allows the presenter to create alternative
graphical displays during the presentation.
• For simple tables
• For all graphical displays of data
Types of files for hyperlinks

• Word
• for verbal displays and simple tables.

• Any other Windows based application can be linked


(e.g. ArcView, MapInfo, SPSS, etc.)
Insert a hyperlink button
• Insert a pre-designed hyperlink button
• In SLIDE view, select the slide to receive the
hyperlink.
• From SLIDE SHOW menu choose Action Buttons.
• Choose Mouse Click or Mouse Over option tab
for how your link will activate.
• Select a button to represent your linked file.
Insert a hyperlink button
Insert a hyperlink button

• Insert a pre-designed hyperlink button


• In Action Settings window
• choose Mouse Click or Mouse Over option tab
• Enter file location in Hyperlink to:
window.
• Choose ‘Other File’.
• Select linked file from menu.
Insert a hyperlink button
Sample Presentation
with Hyperlink
Sample
Hypertext
Chart (Excel)
Sample Presentation with Hyperlink

Sample Hyperlink Sample Hyperlink


Chart (Excel) Chart (PDF)

• These buttons are active hyperlinks, set to activate with a


Mouse Click.
• Position your mouse over the button until the cursor changes
into a hand with pointing finger.
• Click your left mouse button to activate the link.
• Return to slide show by clicking the bottom of the screen,
below the linked file.
Insert a custom hyperlink

• Use AutoShapes
• Choose AutoShapes from Draw Toolbar
• Select a shape and draw it on the selected slide.
• From SLIDE SHOW menu choose Action Settings
• Choose either Mouse Click or Mouse Over to
activate the link.
Sample Custom
Hyperlink Button

This star button is an active


hyperlink button.
Insert a text hyperlink
• Type text to appear on slide.
• Select text to serve as the hyperlink.
• Select Action Settings from SLIDE SHOW menu.
• Choose Mouse Click or Mouse Over option.
• Enter file in Hypertext to: window.
Sample Text Hyperlink

• Text hyperlink here


Speed access to hyperlinks during
presentations

• Before starting Slide Show


• Open applications in which hyperlink files were
created.
• Minimize these applications.
Sample Slides with Hyperlinks
Each of these buttons is an active hyperlink.

Sample Hyperlink Chart Sample Hyperlink Chart


(Excel) (Acrobat)

Sample Hyperlink Table Sample Hyperlink Table


(Word) (Acrobat)

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