So today I was working on a PowerPoint presentation to pitch KMG to the marketing department of a major company who outsources most of their PowerPoint development. One of the features I was working to build into the pitch (which demonstrates some of what we have to offer) was utilizing the hyperlinking within the presentation to create a navigation giving a presenter a non-linear capable approach to his presentation. Imagine my surprise when the nifty hyperlinks I placed on the master slide didn’t work! I knew I had done everything right… or thought so. I finally realized what I thought was the hyperlinks randomly taking you to somewhere in the beginning of one of the sections, but never by any discernable pattern was actually just the presentation advancing to the next slide.

This took me back to the master to mess with it and I realized that the small box I had placed over the text to create a rectangle that would serve as the link (rather than the hideous underlined text they stock offer) and which I had given no fill color and no outline was only showing a linkable area on what would be the outline of the rectangle. Hence, I went back to the master, selected the set of boxes, gave it a color (any color will do) and set the transparency to 100%. Viola… it now works like a charm. WHEW!