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Adding Hyperlinks to Slides

You can add hyperlinks to your PowerPoint slides. Hyperlinks enable you to jump to external information such as web pages or even files on your computer. For example, you could use a hyperlink to open an Excel worksheet that is associated with a chart that you have copied and pasted into a slide. Hyperlinks can also jump to a bookmark, which can point to a slide in the current presentation. This is useful when you anticipate that a slide shown later in the presentation will elicit requests from the audience to see the earlier slide. You can be ready for the question by placing a hyperlink to the slide on the current slide.

Hyperlinks are added to a text box on a slide using the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, shown in ...