How To Create a Hyperlink in Microsoft Office PowerPoint

instructional PowerPoint created for faculty workshop at the NYCDOE

1. Microsoft
®
Office
PowerPoint
®
Training
Hyperlink basics
MorningStar Education presents:

2. In this presentation, you’ll learn…
3.What hyperlinks are
5.What hyperlinks do
7.The different types of hyperlinks
9.How to insert a hyperlink in a PowerPoint
®

presentation
Overview: becoming familiar with hyperlinks

3. People use many
different words when
referring to hyperlinks:
links, hotlinks,
hypertext, or even
jumps. Whichever
name you use, there’s
no question that
hyperlinks are one of
the things that make
the Web unique.

4. “What is a hyperlink?”
In computing, a
hyperlink is a
reference or
navigation element in
a document to
another section of the
same document or to
another document
that may be on or
part of a (different)
domain.

5. “Huh? English, please!”
OK. Put simply, a
hyperlink is an
icon, graphic, or
word in a file that,
when clicked on
with the mouse,
automatically
opens another file
for viewing.
?

6. “Can you show us an example?”
Sure. The images to the right are
all examples of commonly used
hyperlinks:
3.Internet Explorer 7 shortcut
4.“GO” button
5.Uniform Resource Locator
(URL)
6.“FORWARD” button
7.“CLICK HERE” hypertext
In fact, just about any icon, image,
graphic, picture, word, or text
that gets you from one place to
another can be a hyperlink.
http://morningstareducation.com
1 2
3
4 5

7. “That’s clear. What is hypertext ?”
“Hypertext” is the basis for the
Web. When you surf the Web
with your Web browser,
the “http” that begins the URL
displayed in your browser’s
address bar or status bar
stands for “Hypertext Transfer
Protocol,” and HTML, the
language used for creating Web
pages, is “Hypertext Markup
Language.”

8. “Why is hypertext useful?”
The whole idea of
hypertext is that you
don’t have to read it
page by page, like a
book. It contains
“hyperlinks” that, when
clicked, instantly
transport you
somewhere else—
another point in the
same document or Web
page or another
document or Web page.

9. “How does that work?”
This like turning from your
current page in a book to
the notes or index at the
back of the book,
or finding a page number
in a table of contents and
turning to that page,
except that the process is
automated and instant.

10. “OK, we’re sold! Show us!”
Inserting a
hyperlink in
PowerPoint
is easy!
Let’s
assume you
have a
presentation
open…

11. …and you want to
insert a URL (web
site address).
Just go to the
web site,
and return to your
presentation.
Then…
URL

12. Right click in the area
you want to insert
the hyperlink…
then either click on
“InsertHyperlink”
on the toolbar or click
on the little blue
globe with the chain
link underneath…
hyperlink
here
Insert Hyperlink

13. The “Insert Hyperlink”
dialogue box will open.
Click on the tab “Existing
File or Web Page,” to the
top left,
then “Browsed Pages”
below and to the right.
Any web pages you’ve
visited on the Internet will
appear in a list.
Existing File or Web Page
Browsed Pages

14. Just click to highlight
and choose the web
site you want to link
– in this case,
“Sharon G. Flake ::
Home.”

The URL will appear
in the “Address:”
box…
web site name
URL

15. Just click “OK”
and you’re done!
OK

16. “Wow! That IS easy!”
Would you like to see an
actual example of a
hyperlinked PowerPoint
presentation?

17. Check out
Sharon’s web
site at:
http://
www.sharongflake.com

18. Assignment #1:
Setting, Theme, Plot, and
Characters

19. The Skin I’m In:
Setting, Themes, Characters, and Plot
by______________________________
The Skin I’m In, by Sharon G.
Flake, takes place in ...
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
___________
Winword.exe

20. What Does My Face Say To The
World?
The Skin I’m In:
What Does My Face Say To
The World?
by ________________________
In chapter 4 of the
novel The Skin I’m In,
Miss Saunders asks
her class the question,
“What does your face
say to the
world?...”__________
____
_____________________
_____________________
Winword.exe
The Skin I’m In:
What Does My Face Say To
The World?
by ________________________
In chapter 4 of the
novel The Skin I’m In,
Miss Saunders asks
her class the question,
“What does your face
say to the
world?...”__________
____
_____________________
_____________________
POWERPNT.EXE

21. That’s all, folks!
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