Broken hyperlinks within single presentation

[Guest]

I have a number of text shapes that I am using like command buttons to
hyperlink from slide to slide within my presentation. Some of these
"buttons" just move forward and backword, but others jump around to allow the
user to drill up and down within the briefing. It seems like when I change
the title of the slide, the hyperlink breaks, and I have to rebuild it.

I thought that if I named the slide (actually set the name property of the
slide), that might be displayed in the hyperlink dialog window, so that I
could use the "name" in the hyperlink, rather than the title. Unfortunately,
that does not appear to be working.

Anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong, or how to make this process
easier?

 

[Guest]

Works fine for me. Did you add any commas in the title placeholder? If so,
PowerPoint will get confuse with the hyperlink. You will need to remove
commas.
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[Steve Rindsberg]

Are the links breaking in a PPT show or in some other situation? For example,
if you change the order of the presentation or add/delete slides, links will
often break in PDFs you've made from the presentation using Adobe Acrobat.

Is that the problem?

 

[Dale Fye]

No, Steve, the problem is in the PPT.

Shawn may have a point. I believe some of the new titles do have commas,
and I'll take a look at that in the morning.

Is the hyperlink to the slide #, the slide index, the slide title, or the
slide name. I have a number of graph slides and some with nothing but
pictures that don't have a title. When I look at them in the hyperlink
dialog, it shows a slide # (my guess is that this is the sequence in which
the slides were added to the presentation, not their index). Will naming
the slide accomplish anything?

Dale

 

[Guest]

Hi Dale

Internal hyperlinks are stored in a three partsub address

"SlideID,Slide Index,Title"
the ID is used to hyperlink so naming slides wont help

The commas in the sub address are why a comma in the title confuses things--
Did that answer the question / help?
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
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[Guest]

Yes, that did it.

Thanks, John.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

It might also be helpful to put slide titles on the slides. Make those
slides Title Only slides and then drag the title placeholder off the
viewable area of the slide. This might not fix your problem, but it will
help you avoid confusion when hyperlinking. Just don't put any commas in
those dummy slide titles.
--David

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Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
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Loyola College in Maryland
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[Steve Rindsberg]

No, Steve, the problem is in the PPT.

Shawn may have a point. I believe some of the new titles do have commas,
and I'll take a look at that in the morning.

That's probably it.

Is the hyperlink to the slide #, the slide index, the slide title, or the
slide name. I have a number of graph slides and some with nothing but
pictures that don't have a title. When I look at them in the hyperlink
dialog, it shows a slide # (my guess is that this is the sequence in which
the slides were added to the presentation, not their index). Will naming
the slide accomplish anything?

Have a look here:
Hyperlink .SubAddress - How to interpret it
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00162.htm

 

[Guest]

You gotta wonder why the sub-address contains title information, you would
think the slideID and index (both of which I assume are unique) would be
enough.

 

[Guest]

ID is unique but the index and title can change. If you want them to appear
in your hyperlink box then that's why theyre included (maybe!!)

Hyperlink to slide ID 258 doesnt quite work.
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Did that answer the question / help?
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html
email john AT technologytrish.co.uk

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You gotta wonder why the sub-address contains title information, you would
think the slideID and index (both of which I assume are unique) would be
enough.

To give Adobe enough rope to hang itself with?