PowerPoint Hyperlinks

Linkorama!

Find The Links To PowerPoint!

  1. Begin a blank project and choose a "Title Slide".
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  2. Type "The Master Slide & Using Hyperlinks" as the title. Type "By" followed by your name as the subtitle.
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  3. Insert four more slides. Slide 2 should be a Bulletted List slide with the title "Beginning Slide". Slide 3, 4, and 5 should be Title Only slides. Slide 3 should have the title "Another Slide", slide 4 should have the title "Yet Another Slide", and slide 5 should have the title "The Final Slide".
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  4. Go to the main menu and click on Format->Slide Color Scheme.
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  5. Click on the box next to "Background".
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  6. Choose a light gray background and press OK.
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  7. Click on the box next to "Accent and hyperlink" and pick a blue color for it. This would be similar to an unclicked hyperlink color on the Internet.
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  8. Click on the box next to "Accent and followed by hyperlink" and pick a red color for it. This is a color similar to the color used on the Internet for links that have already been chosen.
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  9. Go to slide two (Beginning Slide), and type "Another Slide", "Yet Another Slide" and "Final Slide" as three items in the bulleted list.
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  10. Highlight the text for "Another Slide" and right click on it. Choose Action Settings from the pop-up menu.
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  11. In the Action Settings dialog, choose Hyperlink to. From its drop-down menu, choose Slide.
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  12. Click on slide 3 (Another slide). Click OK.
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  13. Your first link should appear as underlined text. This is a hyperlink. Set up the other hyperlinks similarly, linking each to the appropriate slide.
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  14. Go to View->Master->Slide Master on the main menu.
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  15. You can place objects on the slide master so that they will appear on all of your other slides. Go to the Drawing Toolbar and click on Auto Shape->Action Buttons Choose the house action button and set it in the upper left corner of your screen. It is set up to hyperlink to your first slide (when you click the house during your presentation, you will go back to the first slide). Change this so that it will go to the second slide (the one with all of the hyperlinks).
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  16. Go back to the normal view by choosing View->Normal and run the slide show. Click on the different hyperlinks to see what they'll do!
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  17. Save the file as mynamehyperlinks.ppt, where myname is replaced with YOUR ACTUAL NAME. Make sure that THE FILE IS ONE WORD.

Rubric

You will receive 5 points for completing this project.

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