Hyperlink to original slide

[Guest]

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003: I have over 30 hyperlinks throughout my PowerPoint
that all go to the last five slides (definition slides). Is there any way to
go back to the original slide you were at before you clicked the hyperlink? I
have 70 slides altogether and it would be very inconvenient if you had to
click the back button 60 times. Any suggestions would help, I dont have very
much time left! Thanks.

 

[Kathy J]

One suggestion:
Instead of linking directly to the definition slides, put them in a custom
show and link to that. When you link to the custom show, you can do a "Show
and Return" which will run through the show and then return to the slide
that called it. IF you don't plan to show all five slides, put an "End Show"
button on each of the five definition slides. This works because ending the
custom show will also return you to the calling slide if show and return is
set up.

To set up your custom show, do Slide Show--> Custom Show.

Post back if you need more information....

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003: I have over 30 hyperlinks throughout my PowerPoint
that all go to the last five slides (definition slides). Is there any way to
go back to the original slide you were at before you clicked the hyperlink? I
have 70 slides altogether and it would be very inconvenient if you had to
click the back button 60 times. Any suggestions would help, I dont have very
much time left! Thanks.

Choose the shape or text you want to apply the link to
Right click it and instead of Hyperlink, choose Action Settings
Choose Hyperlink to: and pick "Last Slide Viewed" from the list of options.

When clicked, this will take you to the slide viewed immediately previous to the
current slide.

Be a bit cautious: it's utterly literal minded. It doesn't take you back up
the list of previously viewed slides the way a web browser's back button does.
instead it works like:

You're on slide 12
You click a link that takes you to slide 42
You click the Last Slide Viewed link.
It takes you back to 12.
You click the Last Slide Viewed link on slide 12.
It takes you back to slide 42.
You click the last slide viewed link there and it takes you back to slide 12.

This can keep an idiot like me amused for hours, but you don't want to subject
your friends to it. I'd put the Last Viewed link only on the slides you link
out to, not on the ones you go back to.



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[Geetesh Bajaj]

Apart from what Kathy and Steve mentioned, you can right-click the
presentation in slide show mode and choose the Last Viewed option.

If you want to do this with the keyboard, you can press the right-click key
that most new keyboards have (or Shift F10) followed by "V".


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