PP presentation linked on a web page

[Guest]

I found this Forum to be extremely helpful, so I am coming back with another
question:
Using PP 2002 Win XP Browser=IE
Developed a presentation and inserted a link to it on a web page.
The PP files were published to a web server, not our own.
In many of the PP screens I have hyperlinks to web sites.
They all work when I test them in my computer before publishing. I have no
idea what I changed but when I click on the hyperlinks it opens the web sites
but if I click on the Browser's Back Arrow, it ask if I want to Save or Open
the Presentation (from the start).
I don't think it was behaving this way before, but then I could be wrong.
Question: How can I use the hyperlinks to the web sites and when clicking on
the back arrow just return to the presentation point?
I would like to avoid creating a HTML file with the presentation. I rather
have the PP presentation starts up when clicking on the web page where I
placed the link to the presentation.
Long question, eh? Sorry, but I need help.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I found this Forum to be extremely helpful, so I am coming back with another
question:
Using PP 2002 Win XP Browser=IE
Developed a presentation and inserted a link to it on a web page.
The PP files were published to a web server, not our own.
In many of the PP screens I have hyperlinks to web sites.
They all work when I test them in my computer before publishing. I have no
idea what I changed but when I click on the hyperlinks it opens the web sites
but if I click on the Browser's Back Arrow, it ask if I want to Save or Open
the Presentation (from the start).
I don't think it was behaving this way before, but then I could be wrong.
Question: How can I use the hyperlinks to the web sites and when clicking on
the back arrow just return to the presentation point?
I would like to avoid creating a HTML file with the presentation. I rather
have the PP presentation starts up when clicking on the web page where I
placed the link to the presentation.
Long question, eh? Sorry, but I need help.

Can you point us to a URL where we can see this?

 

[Guest]

The reason for publishing the presentation on the web is for a couple of
friends to preview it before we use it for an actual presentation. It will
not stay there after they view it.
But I am confused as to why it is behaving the way I describe it.
When going to the web page link I am including below, look at the end of the
table for a gray out link "PP Preview".
Thanks for the help Steve.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I think you forgot to post the web link. Oopsie. ;-)

But before we wander off down an irrelevant (to you) side issue, how will your
friends eventually use this presentation?

If they'll download it to their own computers then view it from within PPT or the
viewer, then links to web sites will behave fairly predictably. They'll open in the
browser, the user will be able to navigate to other web pages from there but the bak
button will only take them back as far as the first web page you linked to, not back
to PPT. They'll have to close the browser to see the instance of PPT that's sitting
there behind it.

If they'll launch PPT from within the browser, how it behaves depends on the user's
computer settings.

Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm

 

[Guest]

Steve, thanks for the reply. Sorry I did not include the web link.
The last procedure was to save the PP presentation as Web Page. It was a
very tedious publishing via FrontPage 2002 to the hosting server. Very, very
slow.
The link was changed to point to the html page created from the PP
presentation.
When the link is clicked, it took a long time to bring the presentation on.
The sound, by this time converted to WAV from MP3 (and shortened by a Sound
Editor program), played as expected. One of the animations ended up screwy,
so I decided to take the original PP presentation, copy it to a Flash Drive
and we will use it as a preview version before making the presentation.
I find too many problems with placing it on the web page, so I removed it
and now we are going to get together and use the Flash Drive. Thanks so much
for the interest and help with your knowledge.