Link or Hyperlink to Excel File in Powerpoint

[Guest]

What is the easiest way to link to another file on a page of my presentation.
I want an Excel spreadsheet to pull up when a picture is clicked on at the
end of my presentation and I can't seem to activate it to do that. What am I
doing wrong? I then need to email this presentation to someone and am
wondering if the link will still be there on their end.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

First, move the Excel file to the same folder as the PowerPoint. Then,
select the picture and go to the Insert menu and choose Hyperlink. Browse
to the file. The link should work and remain as long as you email the
PowerPoint and the Excel file together. If you have trouble emailing, you
might use the free tool PFC Express
(http://www.playsforcertain.com/pfcexpress.htm).
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

What is the easiest way to link to another file on a page of my presentation.
I want an Excel spreadsheet to pull up when a picture is clicked on at the
end of my presentation and I can't seem to activate it to do that. What am I
doing wrong? I then need to email this presentation to someone and am
wondering if the link will still be there on their end.

Strictly speaking, a link points to an external file. Do you specifically need
that or do you just need to be able to click on something and have it launch the
Excel file?

If the latter, I'd open the Excel file, select the content you want, copy it,
then switch back to PPT and choose Edit, Paste Special and pick Excel Object (or
wording to that effect ... it'll vary depending on what you've selected in
Excel). Do not checkmark "Link".

That will embed your entire Excel workbook in the PPT file. Wherever the PPT
goes, the Excel data will also be available.