In the drop-down menu that appears, click on More Colors. A Colors dialog box will open. In the Colors dialog box, write down the color codes for red, green, blue:. Click the Down Arrow in the Variants Group. Then click on Customize Colors from the bottom of the drop-down menu:. In the Create New Theme Colors dialog box that pops up, under Theme Colors , choose Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink optional and change those colors to the color you wrote down:.
Select your hyperlink, then from the Home tab go to Font Colors :. Like mentioned earlier, you may want to change the color of your hyperlinks to match the look and feel of the rest of your presentation.
Think about whether your hyperlinks should be the same color as your text or a different color. In addition, your hyperlinks will show up as underlined by default. You may want to remove that underline from your hyperlink text. However, having the underline there may help you remember there is a link that you need to click on. So if you take it off, you may get confused during the presentation. If you still want to remove the underlining in hyperlinks, you can.
You can do this very easily by making the shape or text box the hyperlink and not the text. So before troubleshooting your hyperlinks, make sure you have tried them in the Slide Show mode first. See video below for a quick walk-through of the shortcuts you can use. If your hyperlinks are still not working, the likely cause is that your hyperlink is broken.
That is, whatever you were hyperlinking to has been deleted or moved. If this is the case, you simply need to rest the hyperlink. Another clever use of hyperlinks in PowerPoint is to leverage the ScreenTip functionality to create the pop-up text effect in PowerPoint. For an example of what this looks like and how to set it up, see our step-by-step guide here or watch the short video below. In short, hyperlinks are a great way to create choices within your presentation.
That is, giving your audience a choice and then jumping to topics within your presentation that they are most interesting in learning more about. If you enjoyed this article, you can learn more about our PowerPoint training and free tutorials here. Discover 4 weird little PowerPoint tricks that will save you 40 hours of heartache and frustration in PowerPoint this year… as soon as you start using them.
Join for free today. Common things you might use hyperlinks for in PowerPoint are: Hyperlinking to another slide in your presentation Opening a document or file on your computer Jumping to a page on the internet Open another PowerPoint presentation or slide show Create a pop-up text effect in PowerPoint The other cool thing about hyperlinks in PowerPoint, is that they automatically convert to the PDF file format.
What is a hyperlink? Hyperlinking to another slide in PowerPoint. Hyperlinking best practices. How to change your hyperlink color in PowerPoint. Removing a text hyperlink. To remove a hyperlink in PowerPoint:. New Zoom Transition Hyperlink. Newer versions. Which version of Office are you using? Newer versions Office On the Design tab, in the Variants group, select the down arrow that opens the gallery of color variants: Select Colors from the drop-down menu, and then click Customize Colors at the bottom of the menu.
The Create New Theme Colors dialog box opens. In the Create New Theme Colors dialog box, under Theme colors , do one of the following: To change the color of hyperlink text, click the arrow next to Hyperlink , and then select a color.
Select a heading below to open it and see the detailed instructions. Match the color of hyperlink text to the existing text on a slide. Select the hyperlink text whose color you want to change. In the Create New Theme Colors dialog box, under Theme colors , do one of the following: To change the color of hyperlink text, click Hyperlink , and then click More Colors.
Click OK , and then click Save. Top of page. On the Format menu, select Theme Colors. The Create Theme Colors dialog box opens. The Colors dialog box opens. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you!
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