Linking Between Slides in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

While you can link from an anchor object on a slide to almost anywhere, you will certainly want first to explore how you can link between slides in the same presentation. This is simple to do, and also very useful because it lets you use your presentation in a non-linear way and you are not limited to viewing your slides in a sequential order.

Follow these steps to create links between slides in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows:

1. Open any presentation that has several slides. Since this is a test presentation, make sure you work on a presentation you no longer need. Alternatively, create a copy of your presentation and work on it. Now select an anchor on any slide. An anchor is any slide object that you can select, as explained in our Anatomy of a Link tutorial. As you can see in Figure 1, below, we selected a basic rectangle shape as an anchor.
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   Figure 1: Select your anchor
2. With your shape selected, access the Insert tab of the Ribbon. Then, click the Hyperlink button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2, below.
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   Figure 2: The Hyperlink button
3. You can also press the Ctrl + K keyboard shortcut instead of clicking the Hyperlink button.


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4. Doing so will bring up the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, shown in Figure 3, below. Make sure you select the Place in This Document option in the sidebar, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3.
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   Figure 3: Choose a location within the active presentation
4. You will now see a list of all slides within the active presentation. These are found in the Select a place in this document area. If there are many slides, you can scroll down and choose the slide you want. Once you have selected a slide to link to, click the OK button, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 3, above.
5. Once the hyperlink is applied, play the presentation in Slide Show view. Click the anchor to test the hyperlink.