Hyperlink Bug

[BoomerM3]

I think I just discovered a rare bug in the 2003 Viewer. I am using PPT
2003 to develop. Try this:
1. Create an autoshape (rectangle is OK). Fill with any color. Assign
a hyperlink to another presentation.
2. Create another autoshape. Change fill color to 'No Fill'. Assign a
hyperlink to another presentation.

Test in PowerPoint - everything works.

Save and test using the 2003 Viewer. The autoshape created in step 2
does not have a hyperlink.

I tested this a dozen different ways. As long as there is fill - even
with transparency as high as 95%, everything works in the Viewer. With
no fill, the hyperlink breaks.

Can anyone explain this?

peter

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I think I just discovered a rare bug in the 2003 Viewer. I am using PPT
2003 to develop. Try this:
1. Create an autoshape (rectangle is OK). Fill with any color. Assign
a hyperlink to another presentation.
2. Create another autoshape. Change fill color to 'No Fill'. Assign a
hyperlink to another presentation.

Test in PowerPoint - everything works.

Save and test using the 2003 Viewer. The autoshape created in step 2
does not have a hyperlink.

I tested this a dozen different ways. As long as there is fill - even
with transparency as high as 95%, everything works in the Viewer. With
no fill, the hyperlink breaks.

It's a known problem (whether it's a bug or by design I don't know though)

For other info about the 2003 viewer, see

http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/powerpoint_2003_viewer.htm

 

[BoomerM3]

Documented somewhere?

peter

It's a known problem (whether it's a bug or by design I don't know though)

For other info about the 2003 viewer, see

http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/powerpoint_2003_viewer.htm

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Documented somewhere?

I thought it was on Sonia's site; may well be, although not on the page I sent
you the link to. Not sure where else, but it's been mentioned here before.

Kathy Jacobs, over to you ... you've got toothmarks from this, no?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Toothmarks? I think I have scars from this one I wrote about the
problem's existence in this article back in July of 2004:
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc4/v37/kath37.htm

But I can't find more details about how we found it - I think it was just
found via experiment and never documented anywhere else.
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[Echo S]

I wrote about it in PPT Annoyances, but I don't know where else it's
documented besides Kathy's pages. I was almost sure it was also on Sonia's
site, but I can't find it. Hyperlinks don't work after copy/paste
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00488.htm is similar, but it's not
exactly the same.