PowerPoint Tips Volume 8, No. 2 Published 03/07/12   PowerPoint Tips* is an email newsletter that answers the most frequently asked questions that I field. Each e-newsletter will typically address one or two questions and I encourage you to forward it to others.   If you wish to comment, ask a question or simply want to get to know us better, please use one of the "click here" buttons towards the end of this message. You can also use the "Update Profile/Email Address" tool at the bottom of this message to update or cancel your subscription or the "Forward to a friend" tool to send a copy to others.   Privacy Statement We respect the right to privacy and we will guard the personal information you share with us. We do not sell any information such as your name and e-mail address to third parties. If a subscriber to our newsletter forwards "PowerPoint Tips", we ask them for the friend's name and e-mail.   A newsletter will automatically be sent to the friend along with a personal note from the sender to the friend. We will not offer or allow the selling of the friend's information such as their name and e-mail address to third parties.   To learn more about presentation techniques Please contact us at info@engagepresentations.com or give us a call at 514-739-5072.  Please visit our website to learn more about us! www.engagepresentations.com Greetings! In this issue of PowerPoint Tips, I respond to how I am able to link to another presentation so smoothly.    Link to Another Slide Deck and then Return Smoothly to Your Main Deck     When I present our capabilities presentation I invite my audience to choose the topics using a table of contents that I link to both other slides in my deck and other presentations. When I link to another presentation and then want to return to my main deck I simply press [Esc] to exit the second presentation. I am then back on the same slide that contained the link. To set up the hyperlink First, create your main presentation. Then you're ready to link to another presentation. To link to another presentation: It is important to keep a copy of the linked (second) presentation in the same folder as your main presentation. Keeping the presentations in the same folder avoids broken links that can occur. Decide which slide in your main presentation will link to the second presentation.  I usually create a copy of the title slide from the second presentation for linking purposes. Insert an AutoShape (called a shape in PowerPoint 2007). I usually use the full square Action Button and create a transparent shape that covers the entire slide.  In this way I can simply click anywhere on the slide to activate the hyperlink.   If you choose to create an action button then a Hyperlink dialog box opens, choose "Other PowerPoint Presentation". Navigate to the second presentation and choose precisely which slide in the second deck you wish to hyperlink and click OK.    I then suggest formatting your action button to transparent by right clicking to get the Format Shape dialogue box. Select Solid Fill from the Fill Dialogue box and choose 99% Transparency, and then choose line colour and select no line. Note that if you make a shape 100% transparent this will not work.  I always test my hyperlinks in Slideshow view to make sure they work. When I click the hyperlink, my second presentation opens. You may see a dialog box (which varies according to your version of PowerPoint) requiring you to allow the hyperlink. Run through the presentation and press [Esc] to end the presentation. You'll automatically return to the slide in the original presentation containing the hyperlink. You can now continue the original presentation. Contact Us! Cliquez ici pour recevoir ce bulletin de nouvelles en français. Click here request a presentation on our services.  Click here to share your comments and/or suggestions