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I have inserted hyperlinks in my Powerpoint presentation and they display as blue and underlined. I can right click and open the hyperlink and it works fine but I cannot click it. I tested hyperlinks in both a word document and an excel document and they are clickable in the word and excel documents.
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Hyperlinks only work in Slide Show view. You are trying to click on them in Normal/Edit view.
Are you clicking in SHOW made Joyce? Hyperlinks cannot be clicked in edit mode in PowerPoint.
I have it in Slide Show view. I had PP 10 installed on my computer for a few weeks and I could click on the hyperlinks using that. I uninstalled it because I have Office 2013 which includes PP. I am saving in Powerpoint 97-2003 because the site where I will be doing the presentation has PP 10. I assume I will be able to execute this there. I see that I have many options for saving - presentation, template, show. I am currently saving as presentation. Does this affect hyperlinks?
I just created a new presentation and put in a couple of test links. One to google and another to a picture on my computer. Can't click on either. Straightforward links, no commas or other special characters or spaces.
A few days ago when I was trying to narrow or widen the issue I found I couldn't click on hyperlinks in a word document. Finally found out I had to disable the option from cntrl-click. I was hoping there was something like this in Powerpoint but there doesn't seem to be. I am going to take this presentation to the site where I will be giving it tomorrow to see what happens there.
You should be fine saving as a presentation. Since you are in Slide Show view, the hyperlink should work. Perhaps, more details would help narrow down the problem. How about we start with the address itself to which you are linking?