How to change the color of URL links in PowerPoint presentations?

Hyperlinks often play a big role in PowerPoint presentations, given that the presenter wants to commonly reference external sources or at the very least, provide links related to their projects, website and other details.

When inserting a hyperlink in a presentation, the color of the link usually standard blue, which is the case for most links on the web and in other MS Office programs as well. This has been the standard since the early days of the Web, since blue is visible to just about everyone, even the colorblind. That is why it is recommended to usually keep your links blue.

However, sometimes you might want to change that default color to some other one in your PowerPoint presentations – especially if you are really into the design of your presentation and wish to make the links fit in better visually with the rest of the colors being used in your presentation.

We are going to show you today how to change the colors of hyperlinks. Have in mind that the settings changed will be valid for all of the links present in one document. It is not possible to set various links to different colors within one presentation.

Here’s how to do it:

Open your PowerPoint presentation.

Go to the Design Tab, and find the Colors section.

Now click on Create New Theme Color.

You’ll see two sections in which you can change the color of the links. One is the default link color and the other one is the color the link will change into once it has been clicked (Followed Hyperlink).

It’s as simple as that.