Automatically link all acronyms in a presentation to a glossary?

[Guest]

I would like to have all the acronyms in my daily briefings to automatically
be linked to either a backup slide or a popup that would show the definition
of that acronym. I already have the acryonym list in an excel spreadsheet,
but would like to be able to pull it up on the screen with either a hover or
click of the mouse. Is this possible?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You could build a small macro to add these false hyperlinks to your
presentation, but it would involve a fair level of coding abilities. How is
you VBA coding skills?


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[Guest]

I have not coded in a long time, but may be able to task someone that can. I
was really hoping to do this without code if possible.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Without code you can still manually add faux-links to the presentation.

This is a summary of Tip #16 from
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/quicktricks.htm

Each abbreviation will need to be selected and a hyperlink created to a
dummy location (like the slide itself).
Then the hyperlink text will need to be edited to show the phrase you want
to have pop-up on mouse over.

If you are talking about hundreds of hyperlinks, this task could get rather
boring.


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[Guest]

Thanks Bill. Do you know if Microsoft would accept a request like this into
the next version of PowerPoint?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You can ask. If they incorporate it is another story.


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[Guest]

How do I ask?

You can ask. If they incorporate it is another story.


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[Bill Dilworth]

Since you are already accessing this newsgroup via the web interface, there
is an option to post a suggestion under NEW.

To better serve MS development team, I would recommend that you phrase
exactly what you think the next version should contain, why it would help
you and others, and how it could be incorporated.

Do not expect an MS response, but you may get a few suggestions from other
folks on how to make this happen (macro/add-ins). I have it on good
authority that they do read these.


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