Link to specific slides in other PowerPoint presentations
Posted on May 7, 2008 at 5:01 am
Have you ever wanted to link your power point presentation to another one? What if you could link it to a specific slide in the other presentation? What if you could link it to a Word or Excel document as well (and specify exactly which part of the document you want to open)? Well, it can be done – and I’m here to tell you how.
To start with, you will need to have your power point presentation as well as the other file that you want to link to. In this example, we will be linking two power point presentations together and jumping immediately to Slide 2 on the second presentation.
Step 1: Find or create the object that you want for your link. This could be a pictures, clip art, or word group. Select that object and click on the Hyperlink button under the Insert toolbar. (Note: These directions are being given for Power Point 2007 version, but can be easily adapted for any previous version).
Step 2: Now the hyperlink dialog box has opened, browse for and find your file that you want to link to. Click once to highlight the file, but do not close the dialog box yet – there is one more step to do. Note: If you finish at this step, you will simply link to the entire presentation or document, instead of to a specific location within that document.
Step 3: Click on the Bookmarks button located on the right hand side of the dialog box. This button will open another window where you can select the location you wish to jump to in the linked document. If you are linking to a power point document, it will display all of the different slides. If you are linking to a Word or Excel document, it will display previously saved bookmarked locations and named cell ranges. Choose the location you want and select it.
Step 4: Click on the appropriate buttons to close and save the changes you just made.
Step 5: Test the link to make sure it is working how you wanted it to. Note: Hyperlinks in power point only work when you are in slide show mode.
This feature can be very useful if you want to use a portion of a different presentation in your own, but don’t want to make your presentation huge in the process. It is also useful if you want to tailor your presentation to different audiences. For some audiences, you can go through your presentation without clicking on the hyperlink, but others might need more details, so then you click on the hyperlink and show them the additional information.
This is a guest post by Karen Worthy, a tech enthusiast.
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Isso só é possivel, se a transferencia for de PP para PP, ou excel para excel, se eu quiser linkar dois arquivos novos ele da um erro, dizendo que nao consegue abrir o formato do programa…
You can also do this by pasting a slide as a hyperlink. Copy the slide that you want to link to, then go to the appropriate place in the other presentation. Under “Edit” choose “paste as hyperlink.”
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Thanks for your contribution, however, I am having issues. The slide that I like to in another Powerpoint file has music and when I go to the next slide on my current presentation, the music continues to play! I’m not sure how to stop it! Can you lend me a hand?
Thank you!
Hola… todo esto esta Ok… el problema que me surge es cuando guardo todos los archivos ya sean de Word, Excel o el mismo Powerpoint en la misma cartepa y por ejemplo los traslado a otra computadora… los enlaces se pierden y debo reconfigurar o redireccionar y esto no me sucedia con la version 2003…
English translation – “This is fine, but the problem I run into is when I move Word, Excel or Powerpoint files to another computer, then the links are lost and I must redo all of the links again. This happened in Office 2003…???”
Once you link up one Powerpoint presentation to another, can you move the files around as long as they are in the same directories relative to each other?
For example, I have one main folder with a PPT file and several subfolders with more PPT files. Can I move the whole directory structure and the links will continue to work?