Here’s the secret sauce: hyperlinks make your presentation interactive. You’re not talking at people; you’re playing with them. They get to choose where to go next. It’s like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but with more PowerPoint.
You can build a non-linear presentation. Start on slide 1, link to slide 10, then loop back. Confuse them. Delight them. Be chaotic (but in a planned way). Your audience will remember you as the person who made PowerPoint fun. And that is a superpower.
So go on. Open that slide. Right-click. Insert a link to a video of a sneezing panda. Or a secret document. Or a map of buried treasure. Whatever it is, your presentation just got 10x more interesting. Click away, my friend.