New to Hyperlinks - basic question

[Guest]

I have a PPT with a number of chapters and subchapters hyperlinked together.
Whenever I add new slides to a chapter or subchapter, or move some slides
around, it seems that I have to redo all the hyperlinks. Is there an easier
way to manage the hyperlinks?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a PPT with a number of chapters and subchapters hyperlinked together.
Whenever I add new slides to a chapter or subchapter, or move some slides
around, it seems that I have to redo all the hyperlinks. Is there an easier
way to manage the hyperlinks?

What kind of hyperlinks have you used?
Is there a pattern to where the links mistakenly point after you've moved or
added a slide?


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[Guest]

I am using the hyperlinks that link to another slide in the presentation. I
don't see a pattern. Should the links stay if I move the slides around?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am using the hyperlinks that link to another slide in the presentation. I
don't see a pattern. Should the links stay if I move the slides around?

Generally yes.

Q: are there commas in the title text of the slides that go walkabout?

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[Guest]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. There are no commas in the title text of any of
the slides. I am hyperlinking from a text box on one slide to another slide
in the presentation.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. There are no commas in the title text of any of
the slides. I am hyperlinking from a text box on one slide to another slide
in the presentation.

OK.

Let's try this: go to http://get.pptools.com and download the free FixLinks demo. It
includes a report button that'll give you a simple report of all the links in your
presentation.

Run it once on a working version of your presentation, then rearrange a few slides,
see if the links break; if so, rerun FixLinks' report. Post both versions of the
report and we'll see what we can make of it.

 

[Lon]

Do your linked-to slides have titles?

I had the same problem you have, with a presentation whose slides did not
have titles. I fixed the problem by giving each slide a title. However,
since I really did not want the slides to have titles, the "titles" I gave
them were nothing more than consecutive numbers, whose colors matched the
color of each slide's background, so the "titles" didn't show at all.

-Lon

 

[Guest]

Also have found a problem with slides that have an ampersand ("&") in the
title, the links will not stay with the slide!!

JaneH

 

[Echo S]

Are you sure it's not commas in the titles? I know there's an issue where
you can't link to a slide with a comma in the title, but I wasn't aware of
the ampersand issue... (Now, that doesn't mean the ampersand's not an
issue -- which is why I'm asking!)

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Also have found a problem with slides that have an ampersand ("&") in the
title, the links will not stay with the slide!!

Like Echo, I'm curious about this and would like to know more.

Can you give us some more details? PPT version, how exactly you created the
links and so forth? I just tried it here and had no problems with links to
slides with ampersands in the title, even after moving the slides around w/in
the presentation.

I created the slides in PPT2000, added links by selecting bits of text and
right-click/hyperlink; place within document and picking the slide title I
wanted to link to. Tested, then saved, closed PPT, reopened, tested again.

No problems here.



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[Guest]

Guys you are both absolutely correct it was the commas. I had both in the
title! Must check facts before open mouth. Just assumed it was the
ampersand as I didn't think the humble little comma could possibly be causing
the problem!

 

[Echo S]

No worries, Jane. I know I sure wondered if maybe you had found another
issue with links and punctuation!

The comma thing is because PPT uses a comma in its code when it references a
slide. If there's a comma in the title, too, PPT gets confused. (Or it's
something like that, anyway.)

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

No worries, Jane. I know I sure wondered if maybe you had found another
issue with links and punctuation!

The comma thing is because PPT uses a comma in its code when it references a
slide. If there's a comma in the title, too, PPT gets confused. (Or it's
something like that, anyway.)

Something like exactly like that. ;-)