Go back to the previous drive, folder, or Internet location

[Dianah]

Echo ... would you believe that the pdfmaker toolbar disappeared, yet again.
I had it in Powerpoint ... worked just fine. I opened Word, surenuff, it
was gone. I need it. Gotta delete normal.dot again to get it back. Man ..
I don't believe it! The small consolation is that I can get it back
quickly, by deleting normal.dot and restarting word. Drafts! Diana

Thanks, Diana. I actually spoke at the PPT Live conference put on by Rick
Altman last October. It's a 3 (or 4?) day workshop/conference for PPT. There
will be another this year in San Diego.

Echo

Echo, on an unrelated note, I thought I'd share this with
you.

For anyone that uses Powerpoint and/or CorelDraw (I have a
tendancy to use both), there's an interesting 2-day
workshop/seminar in a few cities in Canada/US. The first
day is for CorelDraw and the 2nd day is for Powerpoint. I
find this interesting, because I use both for various
reasons and often create my graphics for Powerpoint in
Corel. I also do odd things in Powerpoint for Corel
(don't ask .... lol). Anyway ... here's the link. I'm
not familiar with the firm that is hosting this event, but
it looks interesting. They've set it up so that you can
attend either day ... don't have to attend both.

http://www.altman.com/conferences/seminars/overview.htm
Diana

-----Original Message-----
Well, let me think. I suspect you'll have to add the link to Acrobat itself.
Then again, you might be able to maintain the links when creating the PDF. I
sure wish Steve R. would pop into this thread -- he's the real PDF guru!

We just upgraded to Acrobat 6.0 at work, and although we're having some odd
problems with fonts, the maintenance-of-hyperlinks seems to work well.
Instead of printing to Distiller or PDF Writer or whatever, we use the "PDF
Maker" icon thingy which Acrobat installs in the Office applications'
toolbars. You can specify in the settings that links are maintained when the
PDF is created.

If you want to send me a couple of slides via email, I can try them with
Acrobat 6.0 and see if the links are maintained. I don't have the earlier
version still installed, sorry, so I can't test it. I'm not sure if previous
versions will maintain the links or not, but if you have that Acrobat 5.0.x
toolbar available in PPT, you might see if using that to create the PDF
helps.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

Echo, this is such a shame. I added the action button and the link works
when I run a slide show (as a test), but after it's pdf'd, there's no sign
of a hyperlink at all. No way to go "back" to the site. Bummer!


This help topic seems to be telling you how to navigate

through your
folders

when you go to open a new file. Can I ask what the

title of this Help
topic

is and what keywords you typed in to find it? I'd like

to suggest to MS
that

they add that search term to a Help topic which better

matches what you
were

searching for.

What you want is an action setting or hyperlink on your slide. Create your
button, then right-click it and select Action Settings. In the Hyperlink
box, select URL/Webpage, then type in your URL.

You'll want to double-check that the link remains

intact when you create
the

PDF.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I created a 1 slide file in Powerpoint 2002 (that will be pdf'd) for a
website. I want to put a "back" button/link (or

whatever it's called)
on

the top of the page, so that visitors will be taken

back to the site
but

I
couldn't do it. So, I looked it up in help and got the following:

1. On the Standard toolbar, click Open .
2. In the Open dialog box, click the Back button .
There is no "Back" button in my open dialogue box. Does anyone else
understand these instructions or can someone else explain it better.
Thanks
in advance.

.

 

[Echo S]

Ah, geeze.

There's an update to v5.0 (makes it 5.0.1 or 5.0.2 or something). Have you
installed that?

I don't know that it will help, but it shouldn't hurt.

Echo

Echo ... would you believe that the pdfmaker toolbar disappeared, yet again.
I had it in Powerpoint ... worked just fine. I opened Word, surenuff, it
was gone. I need it. Gotta delete normal.dot again to get it back. Man ...
I don't believe it! The small consolation is that I can get it back
quickly, by deleting normal.dot and restarting word. Drafts! Diana

Thanks, Diana. I actually spoke at the PPT Live conference put on by Rick
Altman last October. It's a 3 (or 4?) day workshop/conference for PPT. There
will be another this year in San Diego.

Echo

Echo, on an unrelated note, I thought I'd share this with
you.

For anyone that uses Powerpoint and/or CorelDraw (I have a
tendancy to use both), there's an interesting 2-day
workshop/seminar in a few cities in Canada/US. The first
day is for CorelDraw and the 2nd day is for Powerpoint. I
find this interesting, because I use both for various
reasons and often create my graphics for Powerpoint in
Corel. I also do odd things in Powerpoint for Corel
(don't ask .... lol). Anyway ... here's the link. I'm
not familiar with the firm that is hosting this event, but
it looks interesting. They've set it up so that you can
attend either day ... don't have to attend both.

http://www.altman.com/conferences/seminars/overview.htm
Diana

-----Original Message-----
Well, let me think. I suspect you'll have to add the link to Acrobat itself.
Then again, you might be able to maintain the links when creating the PDF. I
sure wish Steve R. would pop into this thread -- he's the real PDF guru!

We just upgraded to Acrobat 6.0 at work, and although we're having some odd
problems with fonts, the maintenance-of-hyperlinks seems to work well.
Instead of printing to Distiller or PDF Writer or whatever, we use the "PDF
Maker" icon thingy which Acrobat installs in the Office applications'
toolbars. You can specify in the settings that links are maintained when the
PDF is created.

If you want to send me a couple of slides via email, I can try them with
Acrobat 6.0 and see if the links are maintained. I don't have the earlier
version still installed, sorry, so I can't test it. I'm not sure if previous
versions will maintain the links or not, but if you have that Acrobat 5.0.x
toolbar available in PPT, you might see if using that to create the PDF
helps.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

Echo, this is such a shame. I added the action button and the link works
when I run a slide show (as a test), but after it's pdf'd, there's no sign
of a hyperlink at all. No way to go "back" to the site. Bummer!


This help topic seems to be telling you how to navigate through your
folders
when you go to open a new file. Can I ask what the title of this Help
topic
is and what keywords you typed in to find it? I'd like to suggest to MS
that
they add that search term to a Help topic which better matches what you
were
searching for.

What you want is an action setting or hyperlink on your slide. Create your
button, then right-click it and select Action Settings. In the Hyperlink
box, select URL/Webpage, then type in your URL.

You'll want to double-check that the link remains intact when you create
the
PDF.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I created a 1 slide file in Powerpoint 2002 (that will be pdf'd) for a
website. I want to put a "back" button/link (or whatever it's called)
on
the top of the page, so that visitors will be taken back to the site
but
I
couldn't do it. So, I looked it up in help and got the following:

1. On the Standard toolbar, click Open .
2. In the Open dialog box, click the Back button .
There is no "Back" button in my open dialogue box. Does anyone else
understand these instructions or can someone else explain it better.
Thanks
in advance.








.

 

[Dianah]

Yes I did. That's what I was doing - it would work but was a lot more
effort and required a reboot. Now I'm just deleting normal.dot to fix the
problem. It's a nuisance.

It's gone again today ... so I'll delete normal.dot again. Arghhhhhhh!
Thanks for your help Echo. I sure wish there was a fix for this, but it
looks like I'm stuck. Maybe it's a registry thing, but that's not exactly
my area of specialty. I've gone into regedit, but only when I have exact
steps, as I haven't had problems under those circumstances. Diana

Ah, geeze.

There's an update to v5.0 (makes it 5.0.1 or 5.0.2 or something). Have you
installed that?

I don't know that it will help, but it shouldn't hurt.

Echo

Echo ... would you believe that the pdfmaker toolbar disappeared, yet again.
I had it in Powerpoint ... worked just fine. I opened Word, surenuff, it
was gone. I need it. Gotta delete normal.dot again to get it back. Man ...
I don't believe it! The small consolation is that I can get it back
quickly, by deleting normal.dot and restarting word. Drafts! Diana

Thanks, Diana. I actually spoke at the PPT Live conference put on by Rick
Altman last October. It's a 3 (or 4?) day workshop/conference for PPT. There
will be another this year in San Diego.

Echo

Echo, on an unrelated note, I thought I'd share this with
you.

For anyone that uses Powerpoint and/or CorelDraw (I have a
tendancy to use both), there's an interesting 2-day
workshop/seminar in a few cities in Canada/US. The first
day is for CorelDraw and the 2nd day is for Powerpoint. I
find this interesting, because I use both for various
reasons and often create my graphics for Powerpoint in
Corel. I also do odd things in Powerpoint for Corel
(don't ask .... lol). Anyway ... here's the link. I'm
not familiar with the firm that is hosting this event, but
it looks interesting. They've set it up so that you can
attend either day ... don't have to attend both.

http://www.altman.com/conferences/seminars/overview.htm
Diana

-----Original Message-----
Well, let me think. I suspect you'll have to add the link to Acrobat itself.
Then again, you might be able to maintain the links when creating the PDF. I
sure wish Steve R. would pop into this thread -- he's the real PDF guru!

We just upgraded to Acrobat 6.0 at work, and although we're having some odd
problems with fonts, the maintenance-of-hyperlinks seems to work well.
Instead of printing to Distiller or PDF Writer or whatever, we use the "PDF
Maker" icon thingy which Acrobat installs in the Office applications'
toolbars. You can specify in the settings that links are maintained when the
PDF is created.

If you want to send me a couple of slides via email, I can try them with
Acrobat 6.0 and see if the links are maintained. I don't have the earlier
version still installed, sorry, so I can't test it. I'm not sure if previous
versions will maintain the links or not, but if you have that Acrobat 5.0.x
toolbar available in PPT, you might see if using that to create the PDF
helps.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

Echo, this is such a shame. I added the action button and the link works
when I run a slide show (as a test), but after it's pdf'd, there's no sign
of a hyperlink at all. No way to go "back" to the site. Bummer!


This help topic seems to be telling you how to navigate through your
folders
when you go to open a new file. Can I ask what the title of this Help
topic
is and what keywords you typed in to find it? I'd like to suggest to MS
that
they add that search term to a Help topic which better matches what you
were
searching for.

What you want is an action setting or hyperlink on your slide. Create your
button, then right-click it and select Action Settings. In the Hyperlink
box, select URL/Webpage, then type in your URL.

You'll want to double-check that the link remains intact when you create
the
PDF.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I created a 1 slide file in Powerpoint 2002 (that will be pdf'd) for a
website. I want to put a "back" button/link (or whatever it's called)
on
the top of the page, so that visitors will be taken back to the site
but
I
couldn't do it. So, I looked it up in help and got the following:

1. On the Standard toolbar, click Open .
2. In the Open dialog box, click the Back button .
There is no "Back" button in my open dialogue box. Does anyone else
understand these instructions or can someone else explain it better.
Thanks
in advance.








.

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Dinah,
Do you use Outlook with Word as your email editor? If so, then check this:
1) Open a new email for editing - No PDF menu, right?
2) With that email open, open a Word doc - Still no PDF menu, right?
3) Close the email. Open a Word doc - PDF menu there or gone?

I suggest this because I have had the same problem with the PDF menu coming
and going from Word. I haven't completely tracked it down, but the Outlook
connection is definitely doing something to that menu

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft PPT MVP
If this helped you, please take the time to rate the value of this post:
http://rate.affero.net/jacobskl/
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Get OneNote answers at http://www.onenoteanswers.com
Cook anything outdoors with http://www.outdoorcook.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

Yes I did. That's what I was doing - it would work but was a lot more
effort and required a reboot. Now I'm just deleting normal.dot to fix the
problem. It's a nuisance.

It's gone again today ... so I'll delete normal.dot again. Arghhhhhhh!
Thanks for your help Echo. I sure wish there was a fix for this, but it
looks like I'm stuck. Maybe it's a registry thing, but that's not exactly
my area of specialty. I've gone into regedit, but only when I have exact
steps, as I haven't had problems under those circumstances. Diana

Ah, geeze.

There's an update to v5.0 (makes it 5.0.1 or 5.0.2 or something). Have you
installed that?

I don't know that it will help, but it shouldn't hurt.

Echo

Echo ... would you believe that the pdfmaker toolbar disappeared, yet again.
I had it in Powerpoint ... worked just fine. I opened Word, surenuff, it
was gone. I need it. Gotta delete normal.dot again to get it back. Man ..
I don't believe it! The small consolation is that I can get it back
quickly, by deleting normal.dot and restarting word. Drafts! Diana

Thanks, Diana. I actually spoke at the PPT Live conference put on by Rick
Altman last October. It's a 3 (or 4?) day workshop/conference for PPT. There
will be another this year in San Diego.

Echo

Echo, on an unrelated note, I thought I'd share this with
you.

For anyone that uses Powerpoint and/or CorelDraw (I have a
tendancy to use both), there's an interesting 2-day
workshop/seminar in a few cities in Canada/US. The first
day is for CorelDraw and the 2nd day is for Powerpoint. I
find this interesting, because I use both for various
reasons and often create my graphics for Powerpoint in
Corel. I also do odd things in Powerpoint for Corel
(don't ask .... lol). Anyway ... here's the link. I'm
not familiar with the firm that is hosting this event, but
it looks interesting. They've set it up so that you can
attend either day ... don't have to attend both.

http://www.altman.com/conferences/seminars/overview.htm
Diana

-----Original Message-----
Well, let me think. I suspect you'll have to add the link
to Acrobat itself.
Then again, you might be able to maintain the links when
creating the PDF. I
sure wish Steve R. would pop into this thread -- he's the
real PDF guru!

We just upgraded to Acrobat 6.0 at work, and although
we're having some odd
problems with fonts, the maintenance-of-hyperlinks seems
to work well.
Instead of printing to Distiller or PDF Writer or
whatever, we use the "PDF
Maker" icon thingy which Acrobat installs in the Office
applications'
toolbars. You can specify in the settings that links are
maintained when the
PDF is created.

If you want to send me a couple of slides via email, I
can try them with
Acrobat 6.0 and see if the links are maintained. I don't
have the earlier
version still installed, sorry, so I can't test it. I'm
not sure if previous
versions will maintain the links or not, but if you have
that Acrobat 5.0.x
toolbar available in PPT, you might see if using that to
create the PDF
helps.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

Echo, this is such a shame. I added the action button
and the link works
when I run a slide show (as a test), but after it's
pdf'd, there's no sign
of a hyperlink at all. No way to go "back" to the
site. Bummer!


This help topic seems to be telling you how to navigate
through your
folders
when you go to open a new file. Can I ask what the
title of this Help
topic
is and what keywords you typed in to find it? I'd like
to suggest to MS
that
they add that search term to a Help topic which better
matches what you
were
searching for.

What you want is an action setting or hyperlink on your
slide. Create your
button, then right-click it and select Action Settings.
In the Hyperlink
box, select URL/Webpage, then type in your URL.

You'll want to double-check that the link remains
intact when you create
the
PDF.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I created a 1 slide file in Powerpoint 2002 (that
will be pdf'd) for a
website. I want to put a "back" button/link (or
whatever it's called)
on
the top of the page, so that visitors will be taken
back to the site
but
I
couldn't do it. So, I looked it up in help and got
the following:

1. On the Standard toolbar, click Open .
2. In the Open dialog box, click the Back
button .
There is no "Back" button in my open dialogue box.
Does anyone else
understand these instructions or can someone else
explain it better.
Thanks
in advance.








.

 

[Dianah]

Kathryn ... you are right on the money!
I do use Outlook (2002, sp2)

I did a test in response to your email.
(note ... pdfmaker toolbar is never ever present in my outlook)

I deleted normal.dot. Opened word ... pdfmaker toolbar is present.
Closed word
Opened Outlook, started new email.
Opened word ... no pdfmaker toolbar.
Closed word
Closed Outlook email
Reopened Word ... still no pdfmaker toolbar.
Delete normal.dot
Reopen word
pdfmaker toolbar returns.
So ... Outlook factors in there somehow!

I think it was you or Echo that knows a pdf guru guy ... wonder if he's
listening!

Anyway, I finally put a shortcut to the template directory so that I can
instantly delete normal.dot. I need it regularly because of a members
contact sheet on a website that I created/maintain has regular changes and
there are hyperlinks that need to be available after posting to the net.

Man ... what a mystery.
Thanks again for your insites. Diana

Dinah,
Do you use Outlook with Word as your email editor? If so, then check this:
1) Open a new email for editing - No PDF menu, right?
2) With that email open, open a Word doc - Still no PDF menu, right?
3) Close the email. Open a Word doc - PDF menu there or gone?

I suggest this because I have had the same problem with the PDF menu coming
and going from Word. I haven't completely tracked it down, but the Outlook
connection is definitely doing something to that menu

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft PPT MVP
If this helped you, please take the time to rate the value of this post:
http://rate.affero.net/jacobskl/
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Get OneNote answers at http://www.onenoteanswers.com
Cook anything outdoors with http://www.outdoorcook.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

Yes I did. That's what I was doing - it would work but was a lot more
effort and required a reboot. Now I'm just deleting normal.dot to fix the
problem. It's a nuisance.

It's gone again today ... so I'll delete normal.dot again. Arghhhhhhh!
Thanks for your help Echo. I sure wish there was a fix for this, but it
looks like I'm stuck. Maybe it's a registry thing, but that's not exactly
my area of specialty. I've gone into regedit, but only when I have exact
steps, as I haven't had problems under those circumstances. Diana

Ah, geeze.

There's an update to v5.0 (makes it 5.0.1 or 5.0.2 or something). Have you
installed that?

I don't know that it will help, but it shouldn't hurt.

Echo

Echo ... would you believe that the pdfmaker toolbar disappeared, yet again.
I had it in Powerpoint ... worked just fine. I opened Word, surenuff, it
was gone. I need it. Gotta delete normal.dot again to get it back. Man ..
I don't believe it! The small consolation is that I can get it back
quickly, by deleting normal.dot and restarting word. Drafts! Diana

Thanks, Diana. I actually spoke at the PPT Live conference put on by Rick
Altman last October. It's a 3 (or 4?) day workshop/conference for PPT. There
will be another this year in San Diego.

Echo

Echo, on an unrelated note, I thought I'd share this with
you.

For anyone that uses Powerpoint and/or CorelDraw (I have a
tendancy to use both), there's an interesting 2-day
workshop/seminar in a few cities in Canada/US. The first
day is for CorelDraw and the 2nd day is for Powerpoint. I
find this interesting, because I use both for various
reasons and often create my graphics for Powerpoint in
Corel. I also do odd things in Powerpoint for Corel
(don't ask .... lol). Anyway ... here's the link. I'm
not familiar with the firm that is hosting this event, but
it looks interesting. They've set it up so that you can
attend either day ... don't have to attend both.

http://www.altman.com/conferences/seminars/overview.htm
Diana

-----Original Message-----
Well, let me think. I suspect you'll have to add the link
to Acrobat itself.
Then again, you might be able to maintain the links when
creating the PDF. I
sure wish Steve R. would pop into this thread -- he's the
real PDF guru!

We just upgraded to Acrobat 6.0 at work, and although
we're having some odd
problems with fonts, the maintenance-of-hyperlinks seems
to work well.
Instead of printing to Distiller or PDF Writer or
whatever, we use the "PDF
Maker" icon thingy which Acrobat installs in the Office
applications'
toolbars. You can specify in the settings that links are
maintained when the
PDF is created.

If you want to send me a couple of slides via email, I
can try them with
Acrobat 6.0 and see if the links are maintained. I don't
have the earlier
version still installed, sorry, so I can't test it. I'm
not sure if previous
versions will maintain the links or not, but if you have
that Acrobat 5.0.x
toolbar available in PPT, you might see if using that to
create the PDF
helps.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

Echo, this is such a shame. I added the action button
and the link works
when I run a slide show (as a test), but after it's
pdf'd, there's no sign
of a hyperlink at all. No way to go "back" to the
site. Bummer!


This help topic seems to be telling you how to navigate
through your
folders
when you go to open a new file. Can I ask what the
title of this Help
topic
is and what keywords you typed in to find it? I'd like
to suggest to MS
that
they add that search term to a Help topic which better
matches what you
were
searching for.

What you want is an action setting or hyperlink on your
slide. Create your
button, then right-click it and select Action Settings.
In the Hyperlink
box, select URL/Webpage, then type in your URL.

You'll want to double-check that the link remains
intact when you create
the
PDF.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I created a 1 slide file in Powerpoint 2002 (that
will be pdf'd) for a
website. I want to put a "back" button/link (or
whatever it's called)
on
the top of the page, so that visitors will be taken
back to the site
but
I
couldn't do it. So, I looked it up in help and got
the following:

1. On the Standard toolbar, click Open .
2. In the Open dialog box, click the Back
button .
There is no "Back" button in my open dialogue box.
Does anyone else
understand these instructions or can someone else
explain it better.
Thanks
in advance.








.

 

[Echo S]

I bet the Word MVPs know about this problem (and more than likely how to fix
it!).

Echo

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I created a 1 slide file in Powerpoint 2002 (that will be pdf'd) for a
website. I want to put a "back" button/link (or whatever it's called) on
the top of the page, so that visitors will be taken back to the site but I
couldn't do it. So, I looked it up in help and got the following:

The closest thing to a "Back" link is the Previous Slide action setting in
PowerPoint, but it won't do what you're after.

Assuming you're launching the PDF from a link on the site, you'd need to
close the PDF to return to the site. You can do this by inserting a link in
the PDF using Acrobat.

If you create an End Show link, our Prep4PDF addin will convert it to a
Close File link automatically. Free demo at http://get.pptools.com

1. On the Standard toolbar, click Open .
2. In the Open dialog box, click the Back button .
There is no "Back" button in my open dialogue box. Does anyone else
understand these instructions or can someone else explain it better. Thanks
in advance.


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[Steve Rindsberg]

Echo, this is such a shame. I added the action button and the link works
when I run a slide show (as a test), but after it's pdf'd, there's no sign
of a hyperlink at all. No way to go "back" to the site. Bummer!

How are you making the PDF? Unless you're using Adobe's PDFMaker macros or
another third party solution (our Prep4PDF springs to mind, for some odd
reason <g>) all you get is a piece of non-interactive electronic paper. No
links, actions etc.

And note that depending on the browser and a zillion other factors, a link to
a PDF might

- Open up a separate Acrobat or Reader window with the PDF loaded
- Open the PDF within the browser. Sort of.
- Prompt the user to download the PDF
- Do nothing at all

One other workaround might be to make the "Back" link a simple URL link to the
site you just came from.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm actually using the pdfmaker toolbar to create the pdf

files. What doesn't make sense is that email addresses
are maintained (will open email software to create a
message when clicked) so it's the url's that aren't
holding. The hyperlink (url) does work in slide show
mode, so I know it's correct and valid.

PDFMaker doesn't do a very thorough job of converting PPT's links. Some it
gets, some it doesn't.

As an fyi for you. I've noticed that simply writing to
the pdf writer (in the printer list) doesn't allow a
person to click on an email hyperlink that will create an
email message, but using the pdfmaker tool does. I found
this odd (unless I was doing something else wrong).

PDFWriter is just a printer driver; it doesn't do the additional conversion
needed to retain links.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I suggest this because I have had the same problem with the PDF menu coming

and going from Word. I haven't completely tracked it down, but the Outlook
connection is definitely doing something to that menu

That's probably in the FAQs on the Adobe Acrobat User forums. Setting word as
your Outlook mail editor makes the toolbars go wonko in Acrobat.

Sorry for the lack of technical precision, but I've never seen it/done it
myself.