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soo said:
can anybody tell me that how can i use hyperlinks in powerpoin 2007??
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I can't think why you would need to - particularly as a PowerPoint
presentation doesn't tend to be viewer-interactive - i.e. the viewer of the
presentation is normally passive...
 
Soo,
Nothing's changed, in PowerPoint 2007 use the insert tab, click on the
hyperlink button in the Links group. You can hyperlink to another slide in
your presentation, to another PowerPoint file or any other file you desire.
What are you trying to achieve?
 
Gordon said:
I can't think why you would need to - particularly as a PowerPoint
presentation doesn't tend to be viewer-interactive - i.e. the viewer of
the presentation is normally passive...
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This is so completely wrong, I don't know where to begin.
 
I second what Luc told you about using the Hyperlink button on the Insert
tab.

I also want to add that you must have something selected in order to be able
to add a hyperlink to it. It can be a shape or text or whatever, but you
must select something first.
 
Echo S said:
This is so completely wrong, I don't know where to begin.
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Please elaborate? The phrase "This is so completely wrong, I don't know
where to begin" on it's own is pretty meaningless.....
 
David Marcovitz said:
Begin at these sites which discuss interactive uses of PowerPoint:

http://www.pptmagic.com/articles/dynamicppt.htm

http://www.thejournal.com/articles/14916_1

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/Triggers1.html

http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/



--
David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
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Ok yes you might have some sites.
In /my/ experience, PowerPoint Presentations are constructed to show to a
passive audience - unless the audience has interactive keypads they CANNOT
have any active input to the presentation. As that interactive technology is
very rare I don't see how anyone could need a "hyperlink" in a PowerPoint
presentation....
 
Gordon said:
Ok yes you might have some sites.
In /my/ experience, PowerPoint Presentations are constructed to show to a
passive audience - unless the audience has interactive keypads they CANNOT
have any active input to the presentation. As that interactive technology
is very rare I don't see how anyone could need a "hyperlink" in a
PowerPoint presentation....
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Your experience obviously does not cover very much ground, then. PowerPoint
actually offers quite a lot of possibilities for interactivity. There are
hyperlinks, which allow you to link to other slides in the file, to other
PPT files, to other files such as Word and Excel and PDF documents, to
websites, to other applications, to all kinds of things. These could be used
by a presenter presenting to a "passive audience," or they might be used in
a presentation that's sent out to others as a stand-alone file. You can also
use Action Buttons to navigate throughout your file. You can put it into
Kiosk Mode, so users are required to use the navigation and not just advance
on mouse click. You can have Trigger Animations, which let a user click
something on a slide to make something happen -- this is perfect for setting
up, for example, Jeopardy-like games. (People make all kinds of games in
PPT, and they almost all require interactivity of some sort. Same with
training modules. And product catalogs. And and and and) There are custom
shows, which give you flexibility in what you'll actually show. There's run
actions to call up programs and edit/open animation actions and ... just a
ton of other stuff.

You've never seen a stand-alone CD, I'm betting. Or maybe at least not a
good one. Or a kiosk at a trade show or in a school -- those can be (and
often are) done in PPT. If you'd actually look at the information in those
links David provided, you might actually learn about these things.
 
This is so completely wrong, I don't know where to begin.
Ok yes you might have some sites.
In /my/ experience, PowerPoint Presentations are constructed to show to a
passive audience - unless the audience has interactive keypads they CANNOT
have any active input to the presentation. As that interactive technology is
very rare I don't see how anyone could need a "hyperlink" in a PowerPoint
presentation....
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OK. I'm not saying that everyone uses PowerPoint in this way, or that
you have ever seen a PowerPoint used in this way, but it is very common,
and many people create interactive PowerPoints. Occasionally, they are
for audiences (the presenter uses PowerPoint as a launching pad to
connect to other resources) and often they are for applications (such as
kiosks and classrooms) where users are sitting (or standing) in front of
the computer interacting with it one-on-one.

The way you use PowerPoint, "I don't see how anyone could need a
'hyperlink." The way others use PowerPoint, there are lots of good
reasons. I didn't post the sites to show you that you should use
PowerPoint in this way, just to point out that the original question was
a perfectly good one and berating the questioner for asking it is a bit
kooky.

--David
 
Gordon said:
Ok yes you might have some sites.
In /my/ experience, PowerPoint Presentations are constructed to show to a
passive audience - unless the audience has interactive keypads they CANNOT
have any active input to the presentation. As that interactive technology
is very rare I don't see how anyone could need a "hyperlink" in a
PowerPoint presentation....

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Asking a question?
Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about,
your OS, Service Pack level
and the FULL contents of any error message(s)
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In my experience audience members have voices so can have a (sometimes very)
active input to the presentation. No keypads require.

Lucy
 
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