PowerPoint Hyperlinks

Add buttons to go forward and back.

 

1. Open your basic PowerPoint presentation

by double-clicking on your presentation's icon.

 

2. Select View --> Master --> Slide Master.

Anything you do to this "slide master" will appear on all of your slides; we're going to put the buttons here so that we don't have to do them for every single slide.

 

3. Click on Insert--> Action Buttons --> Back or Previous.

 

4. Click and drag to make a button on the lower left.

 

5. Make sure that the "hyperlink to" says "previous slide," then click OK.

 

6. Make a "next slide" button in the same way:  Insert --> Action Buttons --> Forward or Next.

Make the "next slide" button in the lower-right corner of the screen.

 

7. Select View --> Normal to go back to the normal view:

 

8. Try out your buttons by clicking on Slide Show --> Play from Start.

You may want to move your pictures and text out of the way of your buttons.

 

9. Save your presentation.