MasterView International
by Luigi Canali De Rossi
March 14th, 2003
If you have to talk about different topics in your
presentation, you might end up with more then one PowerPoint
presentation to be shown in an sequential order. A common
situation in training courses is that you need to combine an
older PowerPoint presentation with one you have just created in
order to deliver up- to-date information. The two PowerPoint
presentations / slide shows need to be shown without
interruption. They have to be linked in some fashion so that
they smoothly follow each other. In fact the two presentations
can be connected with a so-called hyperlink. The result is
similar to web browsing - you can click and "go" to the next
presentation.
To link two presentations you have to follow the steps outlined
below:
a) Open PowerPoint with the presentation you want to show
first.
b) The last slide of your presentation should be a black slide.
If there is none insert a new slide by clicking on the New
Slide button (you can also go to "Insert >> New Slide" or
press Ctrl+M on your keyboard) and create a rectangle that covers the
whole slide by clicking on the rectangle tool from the Drawing
Toolbar (you will find it at the bottom of the screen). Fill
the rectangle with black color using the paint bucket tool on
the same toolbar. You can recognize this tool by its picture -
a bucket of paint.
c) Click with your RIGHT mouse button (right-click) on the
drawn rectangle. From the pop-up list choose "Action Settings".
Action settings window will show up.
