Anyway to force new browser window for hyperlinks in webshow?

[Susan]

We want to offer our PP presentations on the web for
anyone to run but within our presentations we have
hyperlinks to live websites. All is fine when we run in a
PP window because these hyperlinks open their own browser
windows but when we run on the web with PP displayed in IE
then the hyperlinks open the live sites in the same
browser window. This is a disaster because the user has to
back up to get back to the presentation in order to
continue. Help!!!!! Any workarounds? Can we trick PP into
doing this for us somehow? We will use any version
necessary. Thanks in advance.

Susan

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We want to offer our PP presentations on the web for
anyone to run but within our presentations we have
hyperlinks to live websites. All is fine when we run in a
PP window because these hyperlinks open their own browser
windows but when we run on the web with PP displayed in IE
then the hyperlinks open the live sites in the same
browser window. This is a disaster because the user has to
back up to get back to the presentation in order to
continue. Help!!!!! Any workarounds? Can we trick PP into
doing this for us somehow? We will use any version
necessary. Thanks in advance.

I don't think you can make this happen in PowerPoint short of manually editinhg
the HTML files it creates, but for another approach that doesn't require any
manual editing see http://www.rdpslides.com/ppt2html/

This is a commercial addin for PPT

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking so that
if you navigate away from the PowerPoint slide during the viewing of a HTML
slide show, you can easily navigate back to the presentation. However, if
you want to add this capability to your HTML presentation, you can manually
modifying the HTML output from PowerPoint, after the fact.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide some additional options for controlling the target
window for hyperlinks (or other hyperlink, HTML presentation options or
features), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please)
to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

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John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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