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Create Invisible Hyperlinks on the Home Page - The Virtual Amazing Race

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Make the Link Boxes Invisible and Test the Links
Rectangle is now invisible over the button on the Home Page of the Web site

Rectangle link box is now invisible over the button on the Home Page of the Web site

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An Invisible Hyperlink

Once all your buttons have been hyperlinked to the correct slides, which will be your Web pages, repeat Step 2 and Step 3, moving the transparency slider to 100%. This will make the rectangle totally transparent. This is your new invisible hyperlink.

Selection handles should indicate that the new invisible hyperlink (or invisible button) is still selected, even though it is not visible on the page.

Test that the invisible button works correctly by viewing the slide show.

  1. Press the F5 key on the keyboard, or choose Slide Show > View Show from the menu.

  2. Hover your mouse over the invisible button. Your mouse pointer should change to the "hand" icon, indicating that this is a hyperlink.

  3. Click the invisible button and you should be sent to the correct Web page as indicated by the text on the button. If not, exit the slide show view, by pressing the Esc key and check to see that the hyperlink was correctly set.

    • Right click on the invisible button and choose Edit Hyperlink... from the shortcut menu.
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Continue to Part 4 in this series - Create a Navigation Bar for the Home Page

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