Web links to PPT 2007 fail

[dcdruck]

When linking to a PowerPoint 2007 file on a web page (e.g. <a
href="./directory/filename.pptx">Filename</a>), I receive a Page Not Found
error when clicking on the link.

I've verified this in Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8 on multiple
machines, as well as Firefox 3 on Ubuntu.

Links to PowerPoint 2003 files work just fine, and renaming the 2007 files
to have a PPT extension also works, but why not PPTX files?

 

[John Wilson]

pptx files are "disguised" zip files so maybe that is causing a problem in
your browser. Having said that links to pptx files work here in the same
browsers.
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[David Marcovitz]

On 7/30/09 3:08 AM, in article
This is very likely to be a server issue. I know that we had some problems
linking to various types of files on our server. I had to tell the server
guys who enabled access to those file types. I think this might have been
the case for .pptx files when that format was first released.
--David

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[Echo S]

This should help explain:

PowerPoint 2007 files don't download correctly from a Web Server, open as
zip files
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00911.htm

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