What are the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating hyperlinks in your presentation
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READ LATER - DOWNLOAD THIS POST AS PDF >> CLICK HERE<< Hyperlinks are a great way to connect your presentation to other slides, presentations, documents, and the Web. You can use hyperlinks for the following:
To create a hyperlink, select an object. It can be a shape, placeholder, or the text itself. If you select text, the text will have an underline and become the hyperlink color in the color scheme (theme colors). Then choose Insert> Hyperlink. In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, choose the type of link on the left:
Then locate the slide or file, enter the Web URL, or enter an e-mail address. Click OK. Hyperlinks work only in Slide Show view. Always test your hyperlinks. When you add a hyperlink to a presentation, you must be careful that the target of the hyperlink is available. If you are giving the presentation offsite using a laptop, all the targets need to be on the laptop as well, unless your laptop is actively connected to the Internet. An alternative is to copy Web site documents you think you will need to your laptop and hyperlink to those documents. The advantage is that you don’t have to depend on getting a good Internet connection at your offsite location. READ LATER - DOWNLOAD THIS POST AS PDF >> CLICK HERE<< You can add hyperlinks to your PowerPoint presentation. These links will be active in a web presentation that you publish with iSpring. However, some hyperlinks may not work due to peculiarities of the conversion. Usually, this can be easily resolved if you follow suggestions within this article. Before we drill down, here is some general troubleshooting information:
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Links in web presentationThere are two main hyperlink types that may be used in web presentations. Internal hyperlink This hyperlink will open a specific slide in your presentation. What you can do with internal links:
External hyperlink External links open a webpage or a file in the web browser currently displaying the web presentation.  What you can do with external links:
Note: All hyperlinks will be opened in a new browser window by default, but you can change that setting via the Resources button on the iSpring toolbar. The other options are to open a link in the same window or in a parent window. We don’t recommend that you sel ect The same window because it will interrupt the presentation’s playback, and your users will have to navigate back in their browsers to continue the presentation. The other hyperlink types, Create New Document and E-mail Address won’t work in a web browser. You can only use them in PowerPoint. Absolute and relative pathsAn absolute path shows a full-length address to access an HTML web page or file on the Internet. This link will work from any place on the Internet.
A relative path is a short path to a file that is located in the same folder structure that you are viewing at the moment. This link will for both, local computers and a website that hosts these linked folders.
When you create a presentation or a learning course with iSpring, we recommend that you use absolute hyperlinks to web pages or files that are already placed on the Internet. If you want to add some files (documents) that will go with the presentation, use the iSpring Resources option instead of relative paths. The iSpring conversion engine will keep embedded files organized in a data folder and automatically handle file addressing. How to make relative hyperlinks workIf you have local documents linked with your PowerPoint presentation that you open during a slideshow, these links might not work after you publish the presentation with iSpring for the Web.
In the converted presentation, when you point the mouse to a hyperlink, it will show you an absolute path to the file instead of a short relative path (the bottom tooltip in your browser).
The reason why your links seem to be absolute is just because web browsers render bottom tooltips for relative paths this way. iSpring doesn’t change your relative links. To demonstrate that, create a test HTML file “my-html-sample.html” with a relative path and save this file in the same folder as your PowerPoint file.
Open it in a web browser, point your mouse on the hyperlink, and it will still show you the full path. If you click on that, the link will open the .pdf file.
The reason why your relative links don’t work in the converted presentation is because iSpring publishes your web presentation to a subfolder, so it is placed one level below. Therefore, the hyperlinked file cannot be found.
In order to make your relative links work in a subsequent web presentation, add a prefix
..\ (two dots and a backslash) to all relative hyperlinks in your original .pptx before you publish. Two dots is a standard disk command that moves you up one directory. The same rule applies to the Internet destinations with the only difference that forward slash is used to separate directories there. If you don’t want to change paths for all local hyperlinks in your presentation, you can copy the linked document to the web presentation folder so it will reside in the same directory as your index.html file. What objects may have hyperlinkYou can assign hyperlinks in PowerPoint to various objects, from text to SmartArt. However, conversion to a Web format makes some links inactive. Here is a list of links on objects that may be freely used in a web presentation:
Hyperlink on a stylized textIf you assign a link to text that has a style applied to it (shadow, reflection, 3d, etc.), the iSpring conversion engine will save this piece of text as a raster image, and therefore the hyperlink won’t work in a Flash or HTML5 version of your presentation.
After conversion, we can see the same text appear as a picture with no hyperlink data. When you point the mouse over the text, it doesn’t change to a hand, and when you click on it, nothing happens.
Workaround #1: Save as a picture
Workaround #2: Add a hotspot area over the text Hyperlink on a SmartArt objectYou can add a SmartArt object to your presentation and assign a hyperlink to its elements in PowerPoint. However, iSpring renders a SmartArt as a single picture. Therefore, links won’t be active after conversion to Flash or HTML5.
Workaround #1: Turn your SmartArt in to a shape Workaround #2: Create transparent hyperlink areas Note: If you apply animations to SmartArt elements, they also won’t be reproduced. Apply the second workaround and convert your SmartArt to Shapes. Then, animate them individually. Advanced hyperlink techniques: Hotspot areaYou can’t assign hyperlinks to some objects in PowerPoint (e.g., video objects). Also, because some objects (e.g., stylized text, SmartArt) are saved in raster format after conversion with iSpring, hyperlinks may be lost. When you design a touchscreen app in PowerPoint, some small elements may be hard to click. In this case you may want to enlarge the active hyperlink area over the visual element. All these cases can be resolved by applying an advanced technique: adding hotspot areas on your slides that will overlap objects. To create a transparent hyperlink area
Note: You can also change the Shape Fill and Shape Outline options in the FORMAT tab
on the PowerPoint toolbar... ...or in the Format Shape sidebar when you right-click on the shape and sele ct Format Shape.
Note: A hyperlinked area will overlap the objects and their controls on the layers below. For example, if you insert an invisible hyperlink over a video, you can’t click on it to start or stop playback. Instead, you will be redirected to the website or a slide corresponding with the hyperlink. To resolve this issue, se t the video to play automatically. Find and arrange transparent shapes If you can’t locate a transparent hyperlinked shape that’s causing trouble, go to HOME > Select > Selection Pane in PowerPoint. Scroll through the object list one by one, and every object (including transparent objects) will be highlighted. With this approach, you will easily find any object on the slide that is transparent or
hidden under other objects. Once found, delete it or send it to the back of the slide (right-click, Send to Back > Send Backward).
FAQFlash Player global security on local computersQ: I publish my PPT presentation using the Desktop (Flash) mode and launch it on my computer. For some reason, hyperlinks to a website don’t work. When I upload my presentation to the Internet, the hyperlinks work fine. A: All hyperlinks in Flash .swf files that you launch fr om your computer are blocked due to the Adobe Flash Player global security settings. If you want to test hyperlinks on your local computer, go to the Flash Player settings and add a trusted location (such as a folder on your hard drive wh ere you publish presentations). Q: I sent an .swf Flash presentation to my colleague via email and he can’t open any hyperlinks that should point to my website. A: Adobe Flash Player global security settings are applied to all local destinations, even if you send it to a different computer. Your colleague has to adjust the security settings. The best solution is to share a Flash file on the Internet and send a link to access it. Also, you can publish to Mobile (HTML5), check Zip output and send via email. HTML5 presentations aren’t bound by Adobe’s restrictions. Inactive hyperlinksQ: After I publish a presentation to a Web format, a hyperlink text is underlined. However, when I point my mouse on this text, the mouse pointer doesn’t change to a hand. When I click on it, nothing happens. A: It seems that you applied a style to the text (shadow, 3d effect, etc.), and it was converted to a raster image and lost hyperlink data. Resolution: Remove the effect applied to your text to make it work. If you want to keep the text style, save it as a picture or add a hyperlink area over this text. Q: I have some Smart Arts in my web presentation and none of the hyperlinks work on them. A: A SmartArt object is always saved as a picture when you publish your presentation. That’s why, the hyperlinks applied to the elements on your SmartArt were lost after conversion. Resolution: Add a hotspot area with a hyperlink over the elements in PowerPoint before you publish. Q: I don’t have any effects applied to a shape or its text, and still the hyperlink doesn’t work. A: Probably some transparent object is overlapping the area with the hyperlink. Turn on the Selection Pane in PowerPoint to find this object. Linked documentsQ: I added links to some documents located on my computer. When I send this presentation via email, documents can’t be opened by these links. A: Hyperlinks with local paths work only on the local computer and don’t include these files in the presentation’s data folder. Use the Resources tool on the iSpring toolbar to keep your documents inside your presentation folder. Q: I have local documents linked with my PowerPoint presentation. After conversion none of them work and URLs for my hyperlinks were changed (they all became absolute and start with file:/// prefix). If I click on that it tells me that the page is not found. A: Please read the paragraph “How to make relative hyperlinks work” in this article. What are the advantages of using hyperlinks in your presentation?The “hyperlink” function in PowerPoint allows users to advance from one slide to another slide in the presentation when they click on a predetermined word, shape, or image, thereby allowing for a more dynamic and interactive experience than can be obtained with serial presentation of slides alone.
What are the disadvantages of incorporating hyperlinks?Disadvantages:. Key links aren't good for online, rapid publication of single pages (short work). Key links must be flipped to permalink URLs before the page is served at scale. ... . Key links are more complicated than standard hyperlinks. ... . Key links introduce another point of failure in the content-creation process.. What are the advantages of using hyperlinks when navigating around your presentation instead of using keyboard shortcuts or navigation keys?Instead of squishing all the relevant text onto a single screen, you can use hyperlinks to add important content to new slides. That means folks can click on a button, a picture, or text, for instance, to be taken directly to the additional information they need.
What is hyperlink in presentation?Hyperlinks in PowerPoint are similar to links you might have seen on a web site. They allow you to jump back and forth between specific slides in your presentation, to movie files that don't work on PowerPoint slides, to other files, or to a webpage (if you are connected to the Internet).
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