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Interactive PowerPoint Presentation

I recently started to make my PowerPoint presentations interactive which allows me to navigate from a section to another by clicking on the agenda. It adds style to the presentation and lets the audience know about the currently section. It's not commonly used and not everyone likes them, but it's good to know how it's actually done.

The steps to create similar template are as follow:
(Note: This example was prepared on a macOS but it's very similar on Windows )

 1. Open Slide Master under "View" (PowerPoint's Slide Master lets you customize your presentation’s fonts, headings, or colors and to apply them to all your slides).

2. Select the top slide and add regular rectangular shapes as shown below.



3. Right click on the shapes and select "Hyperlink". Next, select "This document" then the slide you want to link it to.


4. Close Slide Master and return to the regular slide presentation mode. You can already test it on a Slide Show to make sure it works.

5. You now need to be able to locate visually your current slide on the agenda. First, create a new rectangle of a different color but with the same label on it. Second, superpose on the older rectangle you created on the Slide Master. Then, repeat the same Hyperlink process done previously on the new shape.




6. You are technically done with the agenda. You can add Next and Previous interactive by creating two triangular shapes and on the Hyperlink, select "Next Slide" and "Previous Slide".



I hope you found this helpful. You can download the presentation file in the following link: Interactive Presentation. Please leave your comment below if you have any question or any recommendation to share.

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