Linking to an Internet Site

Creating links that will send you to an internet site in your presentation will allow you to have at your disposal much more information than you would want to program yourself. If you are presenting a lesson on the Revolutionary War, and wish to have 3 or 4 web sites ready to go to in case you get a question or wish to bring in more material, you can link to those sites directly from your presentation.

To create a link in PowerPoint you must first create some form of anchor on your slide. An anchor is the actual "spot" on your slide that will be the link. These anchors can be textual or graphical. We explain how to use both forms below.

Using Text as a Hyperlink



Click on "Insert"  "Hyperlink" as shown at right to open the hyperlink dialog box. 

The following image will appear once you open the hyperlink dialog box. You will notice that there are already some designations made in this image. For instance, we have typed Yahoo.com in PowerPoint as the anchor for our link. We could have typed anything we wanted to be our anchor, but for simplicities sake we chose Yahoo.com. The next designation we made was to type "http://www.yhaoo.com" in the entry box titled "Type the file or Web page name:" It is in this box that you will actually create the link. We could have put any web page we wanted in this box.




Using an Image as a Hyperlink

You are not limited to having text be your link anchor. To create a link to a web page using an image you will first need to insert an image. For our tutorial instructing you on how to do that, click here. Once the image is placed on your slide you need to highlight it by clicking once on the image, then choose "Insert"  "Hyperlink" to see the same hyperlink dialog box that is shown above. This image will now act as your link anchor on your PowerPoint slide.

Click on the arrow to continue with the tutorial.