PP 2003 - Extreme Hyperlinks Difficulty

[Guest]

Hello All, I have two PP presentations, both on my local hard drive. Pres A
has an action button that hyperlinks to a place in Pres B. When I set the
link and enter Pres mode, link works. But as soon as I click the Save
button, hyperlink no longer works.

The link that read (in Edit Hyperlink) "D:/226/226 40% IPR .ppt" now reads
"../226/226 40% IPR .ppt".

Further, in Pres mode, when I dwell on the link to check the destination, it
has "25" in the file name just after the 40%.

Simply saving the pres causes the links to bomb. If I reset them, they work
until I save again.

Any ideas?? Thanks a ton.

 

[Echo S]

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00401.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello All, I have two PP presentations, both on my local hard drive. Pres A
has an action button that hyperlinks to a place in Pres B. When I set the
link and enter Pres mode, link works. But as soon as I click the Save
button, hyperlink no longer works.

The link that read (in Edit Hyperlink) "D:/226/226 40% IPR .ppt" now reads
"../226/226 40% IPR .ppt".

Further, in Pres mode, when I dwell on the link to check the destination, it
has "25" in the file name just after the 40%.

Simply saving the pres causes the links to bomb. If I reset them, they work
until I save again.

For starters, get rid of the percent signs in the filenames. That alone is
probably enough to mess things up.

Whenever linking, converting to HTML, multiple platforms or anything web is
involved, observing the following will help you remain unbitten:

- Use no spaces in filenames (replace them with underscores or remove them)

- Use no punctuation in filenames other than characters you *know* are
acceptable across multiple platforms ( underscore's ok on Windows, Mac, *nix,
etc)

- Avoid overly long filenames; keep it to 32 characters or so.

- Use consistent casing (thisfile.ppt, THISFILE.PPT, ThisFile.PPT or whatever
suits you, but keep it consistent)