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I primarily use powerpoint for lecture slides in my college classes. I would like to be able to link to research papers or other resources in the notes of a slide so that students can get more information if they are interested. Unfortunately, ppt does not allow you to create active hyperlinks in the notes section. I understand that if you want to open a link during a presentation it must be on the slide itself, but this would be for students looking at the slides after class, not during the presentation.
Is there any chance of this functionality being made available?
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This isn't an everyday request here but it does come up from time to time.
Please use the Send Feedback feature in PowerPoint to send a feature request to the PowerPoint programmers.
Meanwhile there's a workaround that might do for you:
Add a text box on the slide itself, type the text you want to have the link apply to and then apply the link to the text (select all the text, press Ctrl+K is the short cut).
Then select the text box itself (not the text within .. click inside the text then press ESC, then Ctrl+C).
Switch to the Notes Page view and Ctrl+V to paste the text box into the notes page as an independent shape rather than as part of the notes text.
It'll now work as a link in Note Page view. If there are many links in each page's worth of notes, it'll be easier for the students to follow if you make them more like footnotes, superscripted numbers in the notes text, matching superscript #s in the text box with the links.
Dear Joanna Hubbard,
Good day!
Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are glad to assist. We are looking into your situation and we will update the thread shortly.
Appreciate your patience and understanding and thank for your time and cooperation.
Sincerely,
Waqas Muhammad