Making an Interactive Table of Contents in PowerPoint

Build It, Then Link It

Type out your table of contents and continue to build your PowerPoint presentation.
When you are all done, then you can make your table of contents interactive.

An Example
This is the third slide. A Table of Contents for this PowerPoint might read: Title Page Build It, Then Link It An Example

On the next slide are step-by-step directions to create links from this type of list.

Example - Directions
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Were going to start with a link to the title page. Highlight the text you want to link with your mouse. Click Insert then Hyperlink Click Place in This Document Click on the plus (+) box next to Slide Titles Click on the slide you want to link to and click OK Repeat these directions for each item in your table of contents.

Check out the next slide for the example, now hyperlinked!

An Example - Hyperlinked
Heres the example again, try out the links! Title Page Build It, Then Link It An Example

But how does your audience get back to the table of contents slide? Check out the next slide to find out!

Adding a Link Back to Contents

You can either create a link back to contents by inserting a text box on each slide, or you can create a permanent link via the Slide Master To create a permanent link for the whole presentation: 1. Click View then Master then Slide Master 2. Click on the footer box and delete it 3. Click Insert then Text Box 4. Draw the text box where the footer box used to be 5. Type some text such as: Back to Contents Page 6. Highlight the text in the box with your mouse. 7. Click Insert then Hyperlink 8. Click Place in This Document 9. Click on the plus (+) box next to Slide Titles 10. Click on the table of contents slide title and click OK 11. Click Close