PowerPoint Tips: Link to a PowerPoint slide from Word/Excel

June 21, 2012 by in PowerPoint Tips

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By Ellen Finkelstein

Link to a PowerPoint slide from Word/Excel

In another tip, “Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file,” one of the topics I cover is how to create a hyperlink in PowerPoint that links to a specific location in Word or Excel. I also explain that you can link to a specific slide in another PowerPoint presentation by adding the # symbol, the slide number, a period, a space and the slide’s title.

Here’s an example.

As I note in that earlier tip, hyperlinking to another file is a great way to connect content that exists in more than 1 file. You might want to put a hyperlink in a report created in Word or a spreadsheet created in Excel that sends readers to a specific slide in a PowerPoint presentation.

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This excerpt is shared with permission from ellenfinkelstein.com.

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