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Removing Hyperlink Underline in PowerPoint & Format Hyperlink Font Colour

    Hyperlinks are really useful in PowerPoint – you can link to web resources, email addresses, files, slides and custom shows.  If you are are using text as your link you may not want it to appear so –  for example you may have a link to a custom show that relates to specific questions the audience may or may not ask but you don’t want to advertise that link on the slide.

    The giveaways that  text is a link are both the colour of the text and the underline. How do you remove these formatting features from a hyperlink?  If at any point you are not clear what to do just watch the video below.

    Hiding the Underline on a Hyperlink

    One way to hide the underline is to make the underline colour the same as the background colour of your slide.  Open the Font dialog box and change the Underline Style to Single Line and the Underline Colour to the colour of your slide background.

    Hiding the Underline with Graphic or Shaded Slide Backgrounds

    The above method above works fine if you have a simple, solid colour slide background.  If you don’t you will need to try something else.  Your best option is to remove the hyperlink from the text and then place an invisible rectangle on top of it.  You can then apply the hyperlink to this shape.  To your audience it will look like you have clicked on the text to activate the hyperlink but in fact you will have clicked on the invisible shape.

    Changing the Colour of the Hyperlink Text

    Hyperlink text is normally a different colour to the rest of the text on your slide but you can change this setting.  On the DESIGN tab you should find an option for customising colours: in PowerPoint 2013 the option is in the Variants group.  There are two hyperlink colours you can customise: Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink. You will need to change both of these to the same colour as the regular text in your presentation.

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