Hyperlink from individual Visio shapes to specific powerpoint slid

[Guest]

Greetings. I'm building a powerpoint presentation to explain the functions of
various parts of a new organization. I drew the organization chart in Visio
and then copied and pasted (either linked or embedded) into an early chart in
the ppt presentation. What I'd like to do is to be able to click on any one
of the organization boxes on the org chart and then hyperlink to a specific
slide that describes that part of the organization. Then I can use an Action
button to come back to the org chart slide. Can I do that somehow? I only
seem to be able to assign a single hyperlink to the entire org chart; its
being treated as a single object. Its not unlike using an image map on an
html page. Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Greetings. I'm building a powerpoint presentation to explain the functions of
various parts of a new organization. I drew the organization chart in Visio
and then copied and pasted (either linked or embedded) into an early chart in
the ppt presentation. What I'd like to do is to be able to click on any one
of the organization boxes on the org chart and then hyperlink to a specific
slide that describes that part of the organization. Then I can use an Action
button to come back to the org chart slide. Can I do that somehow? I only
seem to be able to assign a single hyperlink to the entire org chart; its
being treated as a single object. Its not unlike using an image map on an
html page. Thanks

You can ungroup the chart and then treat each of its shapes as an individual
object (ie, assign hyperlinks to them individually) or you can draw rectangles
or other shapes atop the area of the chart where you want the link to be and
assign the link to the rectangle.

Depending on where you'll play this back, you may be able to then give the
rectangles no line/no fill to make them invisible, or you may have to assign
them a fill and make it almost totally transparent.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Steve. I tried both of your suggestions. When I try to ungroup the org
chart I get a warning saying "Shape protection and/or layer properties
prevent proper execution of this command." I think I saw something somewhere
that said that organization charts in Visio had some special properties;
maybe that's why they can't be ungrouped. Placing transparent borderless
shapes on top of the chart and linking from them works great though.
Appreciate the help.

Gregg

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks Steve. I tried both of your suggestions. When I try to ungroup the org
chart I get a warning saying "Shape protection and/or layer properties
prevent proper execution of this command."

Bizarro.

Out of curiosity (mine) you might try this: Select the org chart, choose Edit, Copy
to copy it to the clipboard, then choose Edit, Paste Special and see if there's a
metafile or Office Drawing Object option. Try those and then see if it'll ungroup.



I think I saw something somewhere

 

[Guest]

Interesting approach. When I paste it special as a Visio drawing object and
try to ungroup it, that's when I get the warn about shape protection. If I
paste it as a Windows Metafile and try to ungroup that I get a message saying
that what I'm trying to ungroup is a picture AND asking if I'd like to
convert it to a drawing object. If I say yes to that then it ungroups and I
can attach hyperlinks to any object. I'll be you'd never find that in the
Help files!

Gregg

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If you could find things like that in the help files, there would be no
need for this group.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Interesting approach. When I paste it special as a Visio drawing object and
try to ungroup it, that's when I get the warn about shape protection. If I
paste it as a Windows Metafile and try to ungroup that I get a message saying
that what I'm trying to ungroup is a picture AND asking if I'd like to
convert it to a drawing object. If I say yes to that then it ungroups and I
can attach hyperlinks to any object. I'll be you'd never find that in the
Help files!

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