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PowerPoint and Presenting News: January 19, 2016

Sway is probably the best thing that has happened to presentations, and who better than Chris Pratley who evolved Sway into existence to share the reasoning behind Sway? We bring you an exclusive conversation! We then look at a cool tool from Jamie Garroch that lets you painlessly embed Vimeo videos in your PowerPoint slides. We then explore the entire terminology of Linking in PowerPoint.

We then show you how you can link within slides, between presentations, and even to web URLs using PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. Finally, you will not want to miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Transparent Hyperlinks in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Why would you add a hyperlink to any slide object within PowerPoint? There may be many answers to that question, but if we had to choose one answer that would be true all the time, it would be to add value to your slides and enhance their capabilities. However, these hyperlinks are two-edged swords because when you create a hyperlink, you may be telling your audience that it is a link!

Learn how you can add transparent hyperlinks to text or any other slide object in PowerPoint 2013.

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Tagged as: Hyperlinking, Linking, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Hyperlinking Text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Anything that you can select within a PowerPoint slide can serve as an anchor. While all slide objects can function as anchors, text does have some characteristics that make it work as a “visible” anchor. Unlike other anchors, hyperlinked text in PowerPoint is underlined automatically – and thus visible as an anchor. We will explore the different aspects of text anchors in PowerPoint 2013 within this tutorial.

Learn how you can use text as an anchor to create links in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Hyperlinking, Linking, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Linking to Web Pages in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Linking from within PowerPoint allows you to use your slides as a jumping point to provide even more content! We all know that the internet is a storehouse of so much content, and sometimes you may want a click on your slide to open a web page. Show the web page to your audience, close it and you are back on the slide you clicked. You can now seamlessly move on to your next slide. This sort of activity is easy to recreate.

Learn how you can link to web pages from PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Hyperlinking, Linking, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Linking to Another Presentation in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

We already explored how you can link from an anchor object to any slide within the active presentation. However, this sort of linking is only the beginning of the possibilities for linking that PowerPoint 2013 provides. To take this to the next level, we will learn how you can link from an anchor object to any other PowerPoint presentation. In fact, you can also link to a particular slide in another presentation too!

Learn to link to another PowerPoint presentation in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Hyperlinking, Linking, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials