Inserting Hyperlinks in MS Power Point Presentations

If you make use of Power Point presentations, you will know how useful hyperlinks are. Hyperlinks can be used to link to other slides within the presentation, or to pictures, documents, spreadsheets, websites and graphics on your computer. Remember that once you link, you should not move the documents to which you linked to – this will meddle with the hyperlink and it may not work. Rather be sure of exactly what you want to link to before you add the hyperlink.

Click on the image to enlarge Click on the pictorial above for easy-to-follow steps

Inserting Hyperlinks

1. Highlight the wording that you want to associate the hyperlink to.

2. Click ‘Insert’ and the click ‘Hyperlink’ or for a quick shortcut, simply press the CTRL key and the ‘K’ key on the keyboard simultaneously

3. In the ‘Link To’ column click on your desired location. You may choose to link to a webpage, or another file or image on your computer - if so, choose the first option in the column (‘Existing File or Web Page’). In this case, we are linking to a slide in the Power Point presentation, so we will choose the second option, as indicated in the pictorial above.

4. Now click on the desired slide. If you are linking to a website or another file on your computer, choose the site or file.

5. Once you are sure of the file, site or slide to which you want to link, click the ‘OK’ button. The desired wording that you hyperlinked should now be underlined.

6. Start your slide presentation.
VERY IMPORTANT: The link will only become active when the slide show is in progress. It will not work while you are in the document – you have to actually start the slide show to show the hyperlink.


Did you know? A shortcut key to start your Slide Show is the ‘F5’ key on your keyboard.

Don’t forget to save your work.

Happy Presenting :-)