Rinse and repeat
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 8:30 am
PowerPoint allows you to add lots of different types of hyperlinks – including webpages, email addresses and other documents. To link to a slide within your presentation, select Place in This Document on the left-hand side. You’ll then be able to see a list of your slides – simply click the right one and press OK.
Screenshot of the 'insert hyperlink' pop-up box in phone number in chile PowerPoint, with Slide 3 highlighted. Screenshot of the 'insert hyperlink' pop-up box in PowerPoint, with Slide 4 highlighted.
Add a hyperlink for each section, and just like that you’ve created a navigable menu! Throughout the process, if you’re finding it hard to keep track of where each link leads or how many hyperlinks you’ve got, you can use our nifty (and free) add-in BrightSlide to add comments which label each hyperlink and tell you exactly where they go – download it here today.
Screenshot of BrightSlide tab, with the 'Tag Hyperlinks with Comments' feature highlighted under the 'Review' section.
Under the BrighSlide tab, go the File & Master section and select Review. From here, click Hyperlinks > Tag Hyperlinks with Comments.
Taking hyperlinks in PowerPoint further
There are a few other things you can do with hyperlinks to make sure the user journey is a smooth one. If you have a menu, we’d recommend adding a home button on every slide which navigates back to the menu so you can jump around the deck easily. Alternatively, you can add an iconised version of the menu on each slide using the same methods, like we’ve done here:
Screenshot with hyperlinked menu in top-left corner of a PowerPoint slide highlighted.
You can use BrightSlide’s “Copy & Paste Clipboard to Selected Slides” function to speed this process up. Create the home button or menu, add the hyperlinks and select the button or menu. On Windows, press Ctrl+C, then select all the slides you want the objects to appear on and press Ctrl+V. On macOS, go to the Batch menu in BrightSlide and click Copy Selected Shapes to Clipboard, then select all the slides you want the objects to appear on and from the same Batch menu, click Paste Clipboard to Selected Slides.
This should give you all you need to get creating a hyperlinked menu in PowerPoint! However, if you prefer to learn by watching one of our experts in action, take a look at our advanced PowerPoint tutorial video on hyperlinked menus here.
Screenshot of the 'insert hyperlink' pop-up box in phone number in chile PowerPoint, with Slide 3 highlighted. Screenshot of the 'insert hyperlink' pop-up box in PowerPoint, with Slide 4 highlighted.
Add a hyperlink for each section, and just like that you’ve created a navigable menu! Throughout the process, if you’re finding it hard to keep track of where each link leads or how many hyperlinks you’ve got, you can use our nifty (and free) add-in BrightSlide to add comments which label each hyperlink and tell you exactly where they go – download it here today.
Screenshot of BrightSlide tab, with the 'Tag Hyperlinks with Comments' feature highlighted under the 'Review' section.
Under the BrighSlide tab, go the File & Master section and select Review. From here, click Hyperlinks > Tag Hyperlinks with Comments.
Taking hyperlinks in PowerPoint further
There are a few other things you can do with hyperlinks to make sure the user journey is a smooth one. If you have a menu, we’d recommend adding a home button on every slide which navigates back to the menu so you can jump around the deck easily. Alternatively, you can add an iconised version of the menu on each slide using the same methods, like we’ve done here:
Screenshot with hyperlinked menu in top-left corner of a PowerPoint slide highlighted.
You can use BrightSlide’s “Copy & Paste Clipboard to Selected Slides” function to speed this process up. Create the home button or menu, add the hyperlinks and select the button or menu. On Windows, press Ctrl+C, then select all the slides you want the objects to appear on and press Ctrl+V. On macOS, go to the Batch menu in BrightSlide and click Copy Selected Shapes to Clipboard, then select all the slides you want the objects to appear on and from the same Batch menu, click Paste Clipboard to Selected Slides.
This should give you all you need to get creating a hyperlinked menu in PowerPoint! However, if you prefer to learn by watching one of our experts in action, take a look at our advanced PowerPoint tutorial video on hyperlinked menus here.