uplinks on each slide?

[Edward Reid]

I'd like to place the location and uplinks on each slide, much as is
done on many web pages. In other words, if my outline is

HOME
SECOND LEVEL
THIRD LEVEL
DETAIL SLIDE

then I'd like that "detail slide" to have at the top

HOME SECOND LEVEL THIRD LEVEL

with each part being a link to the contents slide for that part.

This is a very simple presentation, and the expectation is that it will
be mostly viewed by individuals working alone, but sometimes as part of
a discussion. Text only. I want it to work for reading straight through
or browsing. A web browser presentation would probably work well except
for the effort of setting up all the files.

My first thought of course was to add link fields at the top of the
master slide. Of course, PPT frustrated me quickly, and in reading in
this newsgroup I then found that PPT does not allow me to add "click
here" elements to the master slide or to create a new layout.

Is there any way to get the effect I want in PPT? Is there another tool
which would work better for this?

Thanks,

Edward

 

[Sonia]

If you add the links to the Slide Master they will appear on every slide
regardless of the layout you use. Would that do the trick for you?

 

[Edward Reid]

If you add the links to the Slide Master they will appear on every
slide regardless of the layout you use. Would that do the trick
for you?

That would be great if I just wanted a Home link. But the other links
need to vary from slide to slide.

Edward

 

[Sonia]

Then add them to each slide so that you can customize each. Or maybe
there's something I'm not understanding?

 

[Edward Reid]

Consider adding the breadcrumbs as a series of shapes side by
side, one for each link, rather than a single piece of text with
multiple links. It'll be easier to deal with (but you can make it
look like a single set of text by arranging them carefully)

Breadcrumbs, that's the word I was looking for. ;-)

Create however many text boxes you need for the links, fill in the
text, add the links. Then copy that set of text boxes to the
"higher level" slides and simply delete the rightmost box.

OK, that sounds like the best way. At least (I find) that when I copy
and paste a text box, it retains its position on the new slide. This
means I don't have to go through getting it correctly positioned each
time, which was what bothered me most about putting a new text box on
each page. This is arguably better, since it copies the links too,
rather than having to set them on every page.

For this time I think I'm going to restrict myself to "Home" and "Up
one level", because time is short, but with a little more time this
would work.

Sonia: the main reason I was pursuing the master slide was to get a
fixed placement for the link elements so that I wouldn't have to
position them on each slide. Steve's method takes a lot of the pain out
of putting them on each slide, since copy and paste preserves the
position.

Thanks to both of you.

Edward

 

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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you would like this to be a
lot easier to do in PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for how to
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