I have a slide with many links which refer to other slides. For instance, it refers to slide 8,9,10,...,30.



What I want is to keep all those links in the same slide fixed regardless of if I move or delete those slides.

Example:

In slide #1, I have : Link A to slide 27

I move slide 27 to slide 45 (these are all random numbers by the way). I want the link A to still redirect to slide #27 and NOT #45.

Is this possible somehow?

Thank you,

To my knowledge, no (at least not with normal hyperlinks). If you want the link to refer to a specific slide number, instead of a specific slide, then you will need to relink yourself after shifting the slide(s). The only links that will not be linked to a specific slide are 'First Slide', 'Last Slide', 'Next Slide' and 'Previous Slide'

This is the generally desired result, as any link would normally be expected to relate to the content on the specific slide, regardless of it's position in the presentation, so PowerPoint retains the link to the same content when it is repositioned (and if it didn't, it would be a nightmare when a change needed to be made to a large document). The only way I can see that would work would be to use a VBA Macro for your hyperlink.

Thanks for the fast reply. The thing is I have to replace a bunch of powerpoint slides whenever there are updates. How could I do the macro?

Something like the following, change the SlideNumber from 10 to whichever slide you need.

Dim slideNumber As Integer
Dim maxSlideNumber As Integer
Dim ssw As SlideShowWindow

Set ssw = Application.SlideShowWindows(1)
slideNumber = 10

maxSlideNumber = ssw.Presentation.Slides.Count
If slideNumber > 0 And slideNumber <= maxSlideNumber Then
ssw.View.gotoSlide slideNumber
Else
MsgBox "Slide number invalid - '" & slideNumber & "'."
End If

I'll try it when I'll have to update it, thanks.

You can avoid having lots of macros and just use this one for ALL links:
All you need do then is copy paste the button and change the Alt Text for each shape to the slide needed.

Right Click>Size/Position > Alt Text (use the Description box in 2010)

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This is not a reply. But how do I keep hyperlinks to the correct targets even when some of the slides in between are deleted or moved ?