HyperLink Problem

[Art Davis]

Hi, Folks:

This is a question for my wife, who runs Office 2000. She has a PPT
presentation that is linked to other PPT presentations and Word files. The
latter are very large standards files and provide references for points made
in the PPT presentations. Thus, a viewer running the PPT lesson can click
on a hyperlink with bookmark and access the relevant point in the Word
document. Here's the problem: when returning to the PPT presentation, the
Word document remains open---as do all the others that are referenced. Is
there any way to cause these documents to close automatically? She doesn't
want to have to put action buttons by each reference because of the work
involved (as I said, the standards files are very large). Any ideas?
Thanks,
Art

 

[Sonia]

How do they currently return to the presentation?
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[Art Davis]

Sonia,
From the Word document, they use the "back arrow" on the menu bar at the
top.
Art

 

[Sonia]

Try instructing them to click on the "X" in the upper right corner of the
Word window. That will close the instance of Word and return them to the
presentation.

 

[Art Davis]

Sonia,

Thanks a lot. Here's what the smarter version of this husband-wife pair had
to say, though:
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This is where we started from. It works in a Word-to-Word link (and
perhaps it works in a ppt-to-ppt link as well). Unfortunately, it does not
work when linking from Word to Ppt. When you close the ppt, the Word
document minimizes. That's why we looked for other solutions.

It might be that we could rely on that for the links to the Standard and
provide buttons on every slide of the ppts we link to. It would certainly
work for presentation purposes. The problem I see with that, though, is
that it isn't intuitive for people using the documents on their own - which
will be the norm. When they see a back arrow, they will automatically use
it since they are used to the Internet.
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(Back to the dumber half)
I hadn't thought even of your solution, though, Sonia. It just hadn't
occurred to me that something that drastic would cause the link to be
retraced---so I learned something here. Do you have any other ideas that
might help her?

Thanks,
Art

 

[Art Davis]

Sonia:
My wife cannot subscribe to newsgroups, so I volunteered to ask the
question for her. Sorry you were upset about it. I chose to post the
question on the PPT group because it has been, by far, the best and most
effective of the MS newsgroups. I have actually posted the question with
the word.documanagement group, but no one has touched it. Guess the problem
is just a shortcoming of MS Office that has no solution. I do appreciate
the help you have offered over the past few years.
Best,
Art

 

[Sonia]

I wasn't upset, I was just confus-ed. I don't know what Word NG to
recommend because they all seem to be so specifically focused. You might
try a couple of others. I don't have Word 2000 installed to test with.

 

[Robert Lerner]

I don't know the details for what you are doing, so I can't say if this is
feasible. But, as another idea, have you thought about macro buttons in the
document that exit from Word? Word would close and, by default, the user
would be back in PowerPoint. The buttons can be next to the bookmarked text,
large, colorful, and clearly labeled, "Click here to go back". The buttons
can be copied and placed fairly easily, depending on how many you have to
make. In a similar project (not Word) I placed such a button every screen
length so one was always in view.

You can check for a better macro, but the code might be as simple as...

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Application.Quit SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub