How do I stop PP from opening additional slides

[Guest]

2 Questions: (1) I have created a website using PowerPoint tools, when I
upload the slides into my host server and view the index page, it's good, but
when I click my links, it opens a second slide, on that second slide, I click
the another link and it opens a third slide. How can I stop this? (2) How can
I change the color of my links in a PowerPoint created website? Thx!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

2 Questions: (1) I have created a website using PowerPoint tools, when I
upload the slides into my host server and view the index page, it's good, but
when I click my links, it opens a second slide, on that second slide, I click
the another link and it opens a third slide. How can I stop this? (2) How can
I change the color of my links in a PowerPoint created website? Thx!

Can you post a link to the presentation on your site so we can have a look?

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure how to do that but my issue is simpe to create. At this time, I
cannot send the website before it's published. Using PowerPoint, create a
text and link the text to "yahoo.com". Save the PP slide using mhtml. Open
the slide with the mhtml extention and click "yahoo.com." At my end, it opens
yahoo.com but in a 2nd window. I want it to open in the SAME window. How do
you do this? In addition, when you created that link, how do you change the
link color, like Blue? Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm not sure how to do that but my issue is simpe to create. At this time, I
cannot send the website before it's published. Using PowerPoint, create a
text and link the text to "yahoo.com". Save the PP slide using mhtml. Open
the slide with the mhtml extention and click "yahoo.com." At my end, it opens
yahoo.com but in a 2nd window. I want it to open in the SAME window. How do
you do this? In addition, when you created that link, how do you change the
link color, like Blue?

I'm not sure of the answer to either, but using MHTML will complicate it,
whatever it is. ;-)

By saving as normal web page rather than mhtml, you'd have access to all of the
files that make up the presentation. For example, there'll be at least one CSS
file among the other files and in it you'll find:

a:link
{color:#009999 !important}

That's what defines the link color. Change the number to e.g. ff0000 to make
links go red.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. I will try this using html. But, how do I fix the issue
about the link, when pressed, opens a 2nd window. I want it to open in the
SAME window. In addition, how do you change the text color that are linked in
PowerPoint? I'm not a programmer. It's all in PP. Thx!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the reply. I will try this using html. But, how do I fix the issue
about the link, when pressed, opens a 2nd window. I want it to open in the
SAME window. In addition, how do you change the text color that are linked in
PowerPoint? I'm not a programmer. It's all in PP. Thx!

I don't know that you *can* force the way it handles opening windows w/o learning
Javascript and doing major surgery on the HTML.

To change the link color, you need to modify the CSS file as I described below.

You can't make this change in PowerPoint itself.