Automatically link all acronyms in a presentation to a glossary?

[jjr]

I would like to have all the acronyms in my daily briefings to automatically
be linked to either a backup slide or a popup that would show the definition
of that acronym. I already have the acryonym list in an excel spreadsheet,
but would like to be able to pull it up on the screen with either a hover or
click of the mouse. Is this possible?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You could build a small macro to add these false hyperlinks to your
presentation, but it would involve a fair level of coding abilities. How is
you VBA coding skills?


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[jjr]

I have not coded in a long time, but may be able to task someone that can. I
was really hoping to do this without code if possible.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Without code you can still manually add faux-links to the presentation.

This is a summary of Tip #16 from
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/quicktricks.htm

Each abbreviation will need to be selected and a hyperlink created to a
dummy location (like the slide itself).
Then the hyperlink text will need to be edited to show the phrase you want
to have pop-up on mouse over.

If you are talking about hundreds of hyperlinks, this task could get rather
boring.


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[jjr]

Thanks Bill. Do you know if Microsoft would accept a request like this into
the next version of PowerPoint?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You can ask. If they incorporate it is another story.


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[jjr]

How do I ask?

You can ask. If they incorporate it is another story.


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