Add your organization's resources on the Tools menu

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In PowerPoint, on the Tools menu, you can add buttons that link to your organization's resources, such as internal documentation and intranet pages. To distribute collections of images, PowerPoint templates, and slides to your organization, see Configure predefined library sources.

A button that links to a URL will open the URL in the default browser. A button that links to a document will open the document in its default app. A button that links to a program or script will execute the program or script.

A link button on the Tools menu
Windows

On Windows, you can configure the link buttons in Group policies.

To add link buttons on the Tools menu, follow these steps:

  1. Open the group policy setting PowerPoint Link Buttons.
  2. Select Enabled, then select Show.
  3. In the Show Contents dialog, in Value name, enter the labels of your organization's resources as they should appear on the Tools Tools menu icon menu. In Value, enter the resources' URLs, local file paths, or file paths on a network drive. File paths must be absolute. When you're finished, select OK.
  4. In PowerPoint Link Buttons, select OK.

To remove the buttons from the Tools menu, in PowerPoint Link Buttons, select Not Configured. Then select OK.

macOS

On Mac, you can add a link button on the Tools menu with the defaults command-line tool (see Installation on macOS) or by editing a .plist file for a device management solution (see Managed deployment on macOS).

In the following examples, replace the following:

  • MENU LABEL: the resource's menu label
  • LINK: the resource's URL, local file path, or file path on a network drive. Paths must be absolute.

With the defaults tool, use the following command:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist com.think-cell.settings.linkspp -dict-add "MENU LABEL" "LINK"

When editing a .plist file for a device management solution, use the following code:

<dict>
	<key>com.think-cell.settings.linkspp</key>
  	<dict>
  		<key>MENU LABEL</key>
    	<string>LINK</string>
	</dict>
</dict>

To remove the buttons from the Tools menu, in the com.microsoft.office property list, remove the com.think-cell.settings.linkspp dictionary.