Relative Hyperlinks

[Jim Shaw]

How can I establish relative hyperlinks?

I've placed many hyperlinks to *.pdf files in my slide presentation. I was
careful to specify "Current Folder" as the place to look, for the files are
in the same directory folder as my presentation. I plan to copy the
developed presentation and its related *.pdf files to my lap-top when I head
out to my clients.

I noticed, in Slide Show while hovering over the hyperlink, the entire path
name from machine to file has been stored. I was hoping for a relative link
of the type "./myfile.pdf". It now appears that all of my links will be
broken when I do the copy to the lap-top. That would force me to
reestablish many hyperlinks...not a fun thing to do.

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

How can I establish relative hyperlinks?

I've placed many hyperlinks to *.pdf files in my slide presentation. I was
careful to specify "Current Folder" as the place to look, for the files are
in the same directory folder as my presentation. I plan to copy the
developed presentation and its related *.pdf files to my lap-top when I head
out to my clients.

I noticed, in Slide Show while hovering over the hyperlink, the entire path
name from machine to file has been stored. I was hoping for a relative link
of the type "./myfile.pdf". It now appears that all of my links will be
broken when I do the copy to the lap-top. That would force me to
reestablish many hyperlinks...not a fun thing to do.

If you created the link to a PDF file in the same folder as the PPT, you should
be ok. PPT has a habit of displaying the full path even though it may not
actually be storing it.

Try moving the PPT and a few of the PDFs to the same folder on your other
computer to verify this.

This will not always be the case, depending on the sort of files linked to, but
it seems to work for PDFs.

At least today. in 2003. YMMV. ;-)

If this doesn't work for you, have a look at http://fixlinks.pptools.com