Some presentations require the exact same chart, graphic, or image on multiple slides. This isn’t usually a problem, but – if edits are required – you may end up having to work through many slides to repeatedly make one update.
A possible solution is placing the graphic on a slide master, but that doesn’t give you the flexibility to have different layouts, positioning, and animation of the graphic across different slides. For example, a building floorplan that you want to move around and zoom into throughout the deck, or an image of a key document that will be referenced throughout the deck.
A new feature of PowerPoint 2016 is zoom links. These links enable navigation around a presentation using zoom transitions between sections or slides. They also automatically generate a thumbnail of the linked slide, which live updates when any changes are made to that linked slide. With this feature, you can work around the issues of having multiple versions of a graphic throughout a presentation: PowerPoint will do the updating legwork for you!
Create your graphic (e.g. a bar chart) on a new, blank slide.
Insert a Slide Zoom where you want your graphic to appear. Resize and animate as required.
We changed the right-hand bars of the chart on the master graphic slide from pink to blue. This automatically updated all other instances of this graphic in the presentation.
When presenting in Slide Show mode, clicking on the reference image will transition to the master slide. It’s a neat effect, but accidental clicking may derail the flow of your presentation. Using a presentation clicker or the keyboard to move through the presentation is a way of avoiding this. If you want extra back-up, create a hyperlink on your master graphic slide that links to the last slide viewed. This way you can get back to where you were if you click on the slide zoom link image by accident.
You can’t change the aspect ratio of the slide zoom thumbnail: it is fixed at the aspect ratio of your slides. Consider the size and layout of your content on the master graphic slide to make sure it is the right size for when you insert it elsewhere in the deck.
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You can format your zoom slide to “return to zoom” in the zoom tools option. This allows your graphic to be clicked on and then it returns with another click and continues to the presentation.
Dear, My query is that Power Point 2016 does contain Slide Zoom option. How can I enable it in Powerpoint 2016
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Do you have an Office 365 subscription? If not you’ll only be able to play Zoom, not create – see the bottom of this article.