

When would using text hyperlinks make sense? When you want to see what you’ve already clicked on inside your presentation. If you do decide to use text hyperlinks in your slides, you can always change the used hyperlink formatting by resetting your hyperlinks (see the next section). This is why most presenters prefer to anchor their hyperlink on their object instead of anchoring it on their text. On the other hand, when you anchor your hyperlink on an object, the text never displays the hyperlink formatting. In PowerPoint, this is known as the Followed Hyperlink color. When you add a hyperlink to text, it not only gets that underlined hyperlink formatting, but it also changes color once you have clicked the hyperlink. Notice how the hyperlinked text displays formatting, while the hyperlinked objects do not show any formatting. That is, people can click on things within your document to perform certain tasks, navigate to specific sections of your presentation or even open custom slide shows (if you have already set them up).Īll the objects in the graphic above have the same exact hyperlink applied to them. These hyperlinks can be embedded (as you’ll learn to do below) in text, shapes, pictures, charts, etc., allowing you to create interactive documents.

You can use hyperlinks in the Microsoft Office suite to do a variety of things like: This is an important distinction to make, as most of the hyperlinks you add in PowerPoint, Word and Excel are clickable text or objects, with the hyperlink embedded within.

An online hyperlink can be written in two ways:
