If you add descriptions and a bit lengthy text to describe images, icons, shapes, figures, and other objects in separate text boxes within the PowerPoint slides, it would make your presentation look quite messy and unorganized. So, in that case, creating a mouseover text effect in your presentations will help you make your PPTs look sorted out and well organized. Now, how you can generate mouseover text effects in MS PowerPoint? Well, no worries. Here is a step-by-step procedure for you to create a mouseover text effect in your presentations. Let’s get started now!
How to create a Mouseover Text Effect in PowerPoint
Here are the main steps to create a mouseover text effect in your PowerPoint presentations: Let us now have a look at these steps in detail!
Firstly, open the Microsoft PowerPoint app and then import an existing presentation or create a new one with text, objects, images, and other content. Now, in your presentation, select the object for which you want to generate a mouseover text effect. Then, right-click on the selected object, and from the context menu, click on the Link and then Insert Link option. This will open up an Insert Hyperlink dialog box. To quickly open up the Insert Hyperlink dialog, you can select the object and then press the Ctrl + K key combination. Tip: How to link Elements, Content, or Objects to a PowerPoint slide In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, go to the Place In This Document section and select the slide on which you are generating the mouseover text effect. This step is done so that even if you accidentally click on the hyperlink while presenting the slide, you will remain on the same slide in your presentation. Next, you need to click on the ScreenTip option which is present on the top-right corner of the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
A Set Hyperlink Screen Tip box will open up where you need to type the text that you want to display as mouseover text. Enter the object description to show when the mouse cursor is placed on the object and tap on the OK button.
After that, press the OK button in the Insert Hyperlink dialog window to return to the main PowerPoint presentation window. Read: How to Insert Drop-down menu in Powerpoint. Now, hover the mouse on the object and you will see a mouseover text effect below it as displayed in the below screenshot. You can check the same in the Slideshow mode.
At last, you can save the PowerPoint presentation in PPT, PPTX, or any other supported format with created mouseover text effect. In the same manner, you can generate mouseover text effects for other objects, images, and content in PowerPoint. That’s it! Hope this helps! Now read: PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show feature lets you give presentations over the internet.
