How do I get a PowerPoint hyperlink to open in Firefox vs IE?

[Ben in Asheville]

How do I get a PowerPoint hyperlink to open in Firefox vs IE? I'm trying to
hyperlink to a website. I've changed the association of the index.html file
to Firefox, yet the PowerPoint still launches IE when the hyperlinked object
is clicked.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

The hyperlink should open in what Windows considers the default browser to
be. This is based on the machine setting, not anything contained in
PowerPoint.


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[T Lavedas]

The hyperlink should open in what Windows considers the default browser to
be.  This is based on the machine setting, not anything contained in
PowerPoint.

--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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vestprog2@     Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo.             They answer most of our questions.
com                www.pptfaq.com
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While what you say is certainly true, the OP can simulate a hyperlink
by adding a macro and setting an Action Setting to the target text
(bulleted), where the macro Shells to firefox, something like this ...

Sub hyperlink1()
sCmd = """C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"" " _
& "http://www.somewhere.com/index.html"
Shell sCmd
End Sub

It's a lot more trouble, but is more likely to be transferable to
other machines that have have firefox loaded.

Tom Lavedas
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