Dumb question time: How do I insert a hyperlink?

[Guest]

Hi Glenna,
The first 2 options are already in the configurations that you suggested (CD
and kiosk). Great minds run in the same channel!!
The web option is interesting. I don't want to sound obtuse, but if I
actually copied the "Package for CD" folder to my site, and then linked to
play.bat, wouldn't that do it ? If that's what you're suggesting, than please
pardon my mental thickness. I know that you're probably very busy, and you've
been more than a bit kind in responding to my queries, so please feel free to
ignore this. I'll try my interpretation out, and see what happens. Like all
of us "propeller heads," I'm a problem solver -- at least most of the time.

Thank you, and, again, happy holidays. Health, wealth and happiness in the
New Year!

Joe

 

[Guest]

It would be overkill to copy the whole folder. If folks have PowerPoint or
PPTViewer installed on their PC, then the PPS file will typically run as soon
as they click on the link to it.

--
Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com

 

[Guest]

To further clarify:

Let's say you wanted the presentation to be the entire contents of your
website:
http://www.PP4Realtors.us

First post the PP4Realtors.pps file to the root directory of your site

Then create an index.html file with this (and only this) as the html code:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=http://PP4Realtors.pps">

Post the index.html file to the root directory of your site

When someone enters http://www.PP4Realtors.us as the web address it will
automatically redirect and launch the presentation.

This is handy when:
You know your intended audience has PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer installed
You want to maintain the full functionality of your presentation (as opposed
to what you lose when you convert to HTML)

--
Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com

 

[Guest]

For this presentation, I assume that much of the intended audience will not
have PowerPoint or the viewer installed on the PCs. It will be primarily for
listings of realtors in our small city -- Sedona, Arizona. The contacts will
most likely be middle age to "seniors."
The presentations (the production ones for my clients) will most likely
reside in sub-folders of the root folder on their respective websites. Your
suggestion is very useful, however. I could point to an HTML file in the
sub-folder -- instead of "index.html" in the root --, and use the same code
to redirect to the PPS file. Here comes a bit of density again!! I'd put the
viewer file in the same sub-folder. Of course, I'm assuming consistency with
the old days of PCs where invoking an application would lead the OS to
automatically look for the executable in the same folder first.

You're a gem Ms. Shaw. I've visited your website, and read about your family
(Ron, Kira and Sunshine), your "quirky" sense of humor, and your many
accomplishments. Sounds like a great life for a great lady.

Thanks once more.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Joe

3. I've saved the narrative files as mono, and the difference in file size
is staggering.

I saw you'd mentioned that to Glenna and assumed you'd already uploaded 'em when I

4. Breaking up the slides to minimize animation -- and, therefore, file
size. That's another great idea. I don't know if you've had this experience,
but it seems that quite often after I ask the question, the answer occurs to
me almost spontaneously. The AHA experience lives!

Shoot, that's the very reason we post questions on newgroups. Instant
gratification.

5. Conssidering the limitation of presentations only really optimized for
MSIE, I may convert it to Flash when I get the time. Alternatively, Glenna
Shaw suggested saving it as a .pps file and porting it along with the
PowerPoint viewer to my site

I read her post to mean LINK to the viewer. IOW, give your visitors a link they
can follow to the MS download for the viewer. Faster server response and MS gets
to buy the bandwidth instead of you.

6. Thanks for you comments about the structure of my site. I did it 5 years
ago in Macromedia's Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Flash suite. I'll update it with a
bit more pizzazz after I get this presentation worked out.

You've been a great help Steve, and I thank you very much.

My pleasure, sir.

Happy Holidays to you and those you care about.

And to you!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Oh, great. NOW what're we gonna feed the Canattackattorneys?

And since it's about time for this to degenerate into a food thread anyhow, gotta
mention what I saw today. The local aquarium has a special shark exhibit and have
bought full bus-size ad space to promote it.

So now there are city buses with humongo sharks on the sides, full frontal dental
exposure, of course. The caption: Got Meat?

 

[Guest]

Hi Glenna,

After much testing on PCs of various vintages -- all with the same broadband
connection --, I've determined that using a pps file rather than "Saving as
Web Page" gives more flexibility. To wit:
1. It is browser independent. I've run the presentation on both MSIE and
Firefox -- haven't tried others, because these 2 comprise over 90% of the
market share of users.
2. It gives a better screen presentation. It just plain looks better on all
PCs I've tested (4), and on both browsers.
Taking your advice (also offered by Steve Rindsberg), I loaded the pps file
on my website, and downloaded PowerPoint viewer -- 2003 version -- to the 2
older PCs in my testing universe. The result was significantly better than
trying to run the slideshow by various means utilizing the viewer that I
uploaded to my website -- and even running it against an older version of
PowerPoint that was on 1 of the PCs. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

However,l there is still 1 challenge that I really NEED to solve:

When running the pps from PowerPoint rather than the viewer, individual
slides can be replayed -- with animation and sound -- by placing a blank
slide with 0 slide transition time before each; and, then linking to the
preceding blank slide to replay the slide with content. Thanks to Sonia
Coleman for this neat trick.
When running the same pps from the viewer, clicking the "Replay" button on
any content slide, pulls up the corresponding blank slide before it, but it
hangs up on the blank slide -- no transition, NADA!!

I've come up with an initial "solution," but it's not elegant programming.
Place a 2nd copy of the PPS in the folder; then, when the "Replay" button is
clicked, link to the blank slide preceding the corrseponding content slide in
the 2nd file. It's UGLY, and it only works once. Subsequent tries hang on the
blank slide, and we're back where we started from. Since I change hats from
application devleoper to user quite often, it occurs to me that the universe
of potential viewers would probably find it useful to be able to replay
slides (with animation and sound) in case they missed a piece of information.

If you know of a better solution, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Again,
I completely understand if you choose not to respond.

Thanks for all of your help,
Joe