buttons that link to a graph or word document

[Teri H]

I am trying to add function to buttons on a powerpoint presentation that my
boss made. She placed a button on a page that is to take one to a 2006 graph
and another to a manual. How do I make these pop up when clicked?

 

[T Lavedas]

I am trying to add function to buttons on a powerpoint presentation that my
boss made. She placed a button on a page that is to take one to a 2006 graph
and another to a manual. How do I make these pop up when clicked?

Open the presentation and right-click the action button in the Edit
View and select Action Settings. Then select the action you want.
There are three choices that will work: Hyperlink, Run or Macro (once
one is defined). The first two will likely invoke security dialogs
when the button is clicked, so I would opt for the third, with a macro
defined for each button, something like this ...

Sub LaunchManual()
sCmd = "winword ""C:\Full\Pathspec\to\Manual.doc"""
Shell sCmd, vbNormalFocus
End Sub

Modify the sCmd variable to match the command sequence needed to
launch the chart in it's associated application (what you would find
in a shortcut's Target line or would need to type into the Start/Run
dialog).

If you use either the hyperlink or Run choice, it just needs the full
pathspec to the file being accessed.

Tom Lavedas
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http://members.cox.net/tglbatch/wsh/

 

[diane]

If the file is located on a shared drive that all viewers can access: right
click on the button >> Action Settings >> Mouse Click - Hyperlink to >> Other
file. If the documents are on a drive/folder that restricts viewing (like it
has all of Marketing's stuff and you're not in Marketing), then you can also
embed the document instead by Insert Object.