Customers often ask if they can set up a map presentation where it starts with an overall view of the US and then by clicking on the map the slide jumps to a region or state or maybe a county.
This is called a drill down map, you are drilling down into greater and greater detail. So the question is can you do that with our editable PowerPoint maps. The answer is yes and it is done using the Hyperlink tool.
For this lesson we learn how to build a drill down sales and marketing presentation map using the Hyperlink and Slide Show features of PowerPoint for connecting states or countries on a national or world map to slides with individual states or countries.
1. For this project place one of our USA color PowerPoint maps on Slide 1, a detailed Florida state map on Slide 2 and a New York detailed county map on Slide 3. Check out the video to follow along.
2. Select the Florida on the USA map on Slide 1 with your pointer.
3. Choose the HYPERLINK option in the Formatting Pallet.
4. Select the kind of action you would like to have happen. Sometimes it is just jumping ahead, sometimes to a web site, in our case jumping to a specific slide, Florida.
5. Choose the Florida slide, Click OK. Continue with additional states building your presentation.
6. Hyperlinks only work in the Slide Show mode. To view your project in operation, click on the Slide Show option in the View Pull-down menu. To further customize your presentation there is a nice selection of Slide Show buttons and options that you can add to your presentation to let you jump around. Also there are control options in the lower left corner to help you move around when you are running a show.
This guide works with PowerPoint version 2003 and older. All of the principals will work with version 2007 but the locations of the tools will differ. Most of the tools have been moved up to the top of the screen into the Ribbon.
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