[Fixed] How to Add Hyperlinks to PowerPoint Presentation Slides

By Sophia | Last Updated January 03, 2024

You can insert multiple hyperlinks in the PowerPoint slides so that you can show additional resources and extra information to complement your presentation without cluttering each slide or leaving the current slide show mode. Well, how to insert hyperlink in PowerPoint presentation? You can choose to add a hyperlink to a Web page, an email address, document, other slide or a new presentation. This guide will demonstrate how to do it step by step.

Outlines:

1. Option 1: How to Add a Hyperlink to an Existing File
2. Option 2: How to Add a Hyperlink to a Web Page
3. Option 3: How to Add a Hyperlink to Another Slide
4. Option 4: How to Add a Hyperlink to a New Document
5. Option 5: How to Add a Hyperlink to an Email Address

Tutorial -- How to Add Hyperlinks to a PowerPoint Presentation

In order to insert hyperlinks in your PowerPoint presentation, you should complete the below 3 steps first of all:

Step 1. Open your PowerPoint first of all and then go the target slide which you want to insert the hyperlink to.

Step 2. Select the image, shape, text or any other element on the slide, go to the Insert tab and then click option of Hyperlink to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.

Tip: Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+K to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.

Step 3. Now, you can choose one of the following 5 options to continue. It is based on which kind of hyperlink that you want to add in the PowerPoint.

Option 1: How to Add a Hyperlink to an Existing File

Step 1. Click the option of Existing File or Web Page under Link to, locate to the target document and select it, and then click the button of OK to confirm.

Step 2. To link a slide in another presentation if you want, locate to the presentation on your computer and select it. Then click Bookmark to choose the relevant slide.

Notice: If you send your PowerPoint out or present it on another computer, your link to another file may be in vain. So you should make sure that you have the copy of the linked files on the computer that you are going to make a presentation. In addition, you can right click the link and go to Open Hyperlink to test the link to see if it works.

Option 2: How to Add a Hyperlink to a Web Page

How to insert a website link in PowerPoint? You can open a website from your PowerPoint by entering the complete internet address of the website. Now follow the below instructions to learn how to add a hyperlink to a web page.

Click Existing File or Web Page, type in the address of the web page that you want to add in the Address blank, enter a name that you want to display as the hyperlink in the Text to display, and then click OK.

Tip: It is very easy to make mistakes if you type in the URL by yourself manually. Such errors can be effectively prevented if you copy the URL from the address bar of the web page and paste it into the Address text box.

Option 3: How to Add a Hyperlink to Another Slide

It is simple to add a hyperlink to another slide and you can refer to another slide in a quick way with this hyperlink. How to do it? You will get the answer below.

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, choose the option of Place in This Document, select a target slide in your presentation, and then click OK to make sure.

Tip: If you have created a custom show and you want to connect your object with it, click Custom Shows and then tick the Show and return checkbox.

Option 4: How to Add a Hyperlink to a New Document

Step 1. Click Create New Document under Link to in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.

Step 2. Then a new document is created in the same folder with the presentation's source file by default. If you want to change the location, click Change under Full path, select the desired location, and then click OK.

Step 3. Type the name of a new file in the blank of Name of new document, and then click OK. You can choose to Edit the new document later or Edit the new document now under When to edit if you want.

Option 5: How to Add a Hyperlink to an Email Address

Adding a hyperlink to an email address means to link a displayed email address to open up a user's email program.

Step 1. Click E-mail Address under Link to in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.

Step 2. Type in the e-mail address in the E-mail address box, and you can indicate the subject of your e-mail message in the Subject box.

Step 3. Click OK to complete the process.

Now you have learnt how to add hyperlink to a PowerPoint presentation according to the above steps, but what to do if you find you add a wrong hyperlink or don't need the hyperlink any more? In that case, you can remove it. To remove a hyperlink, you just need right click the item with the hyperlink that you want to delete and then select Remove Hyperlink from the context menu.

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