PowerPoint 2013 For Dummies
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In PowerPoint 2013, a hyperlink is simply a bit of text or a graphic image that you can click when viewing a slide to summon another slide, another presentation, or perhaps some other type of document, such as a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet. The hyperlink may also lead to a page on the World Wide Web.

Adding a hyperlink to a presentation is easy. Just follow these steps:

Select the text or graphic object that you want to make into a hyperlink.

Select the text or graphic object that you want to make into a hyperlink.

The most common type of hyperlink is based on a word or two of text in a slide’s body text area.

Choose Insert→Links→Hyperlink.

Choose Insert→Links→Hyperlink.

Alternatively, click the Insert Hyperlink button found on the standard toolbar or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+K. One way or the other, the Insert Hyperlink dialog box appears. The dialog box has four icons on the left side.

Click the Place in This Document icon on the left side of the dialog box.

Click the Place in This Document icon on the left side of the dialog box.

A list of the slides in the current presentation appears in the dialog box.

Click the slide that you want the hyperlink to lead to and then click OK.

Click the slide that you want the hyperlink to lead to and then click OK.

The Insert Hyperlink dialog box vanishes, and the hyperlink is created.

If you selected text in Step 1, the text changes color and is underlined. If you selected a graphical object, the picture isn’t highlighted in any way to indicate that it is a hyperlink. However, the cursor always changes to a pointing hand whenever it passes over a hyperlink in Slide Show View or Reading View, thus providing a visual clue that the user has found a hyperlink.

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