Hyperlink uses wrong app to view image

[Guest]

Added a hyperlink to a Powerpoint slide that is linked to a BMP file.
Windows file association for this type is set to "Windows Picture and fax
Viewer." After clicking the hyperlink, MS Paint opens and displays the
picture.
Opening a BMP file from Windows Explorer uses the picture and fax viewer app
as expected.
Changed the file association for Bitmap image type files to use MS Photo
Editor. Clicked the Powerpoint hyperlink again and the Photo Editor app
opened and displayed the image.
Changed the file assoc back to the Picture and Fax Viewer and again MS Paint
displays the image.
Used another computer and ran the same configuration, but instead of MS
Paint displaying the pic, Internet Explorer popped up and displayed the pic.
My computer has XP Pro with Office 2002 SP3. The other computer has XP Pro
with Office 2003 SP?.
Any ideas? Is there a better app for viewing images from Powerpoint? There
are too many pictures to embed into the presentation.
Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Let's fast forward a bit.

Any ideas? Is there a better app for viewing images from Powerpoint? There
are too many pictures to embed into the presentation.

What is the problem you're trying to solve here?

If it's file size for a presentation you need to distribute to others, linking
won't help; you still have to distribute the linked files, and PowerPoint will
almost certainly make the links break at some point.

If you're linking in files via Insert, Object, Link, you're probably producing
even LARGER files than you'd get from just inserting the JPGs/BMPs via Insert,
Picture, From File (the preferred way of doing the deed)

So depending on the *problem*, linking may not solve it and may in fact make it
worse.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for looking at this one. The problem I'm encountering is that using
Powerpoint *hyperlinks* does not use the application associated with the type
of file that is being linked to.

Problem: Windows file association has been set on the host computer to open
JPEG file types with "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer," but the hyperlink in
the PPT slide causes Internet Explorer to open the JPG file.

The presentation was designed by another office dweller, and there are over
300 hyperlinks that point to JPEG files on the host computer. The host
computer is used for the presentation, and the presentation is not going to
be sent anywhere. It was during the presentation that we observed Internet
Explorer opening and displaying the images. We want to use the fast and
simple viewer, but I can't seem to force the Powerpoint hyperlink to use
"Windows Picture and Fax Viewer." THIS is the problem that I'm unltimately
trying to solve.

The host computer is definitely set to use the viewer for JPEGs, and outside
of Powerpoint the viewer is used as expected.

The link is generated by Insert / Hyperlink and then selecting the JPEG
file, which is located in the same folder as the PPT presentation.

Does that help clear up the issue? I guess I wasn't very clear before.
Thanks again for looking at this one!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the followup. I tried to repro this here and couldn't (PPT2002 SP3 but
under Win 2000). Since it's acting differently at your end on two different
computers both running the same Windows and PPT versions/SPs, I guess we can't pin
anything on those.

What else might be different? User permissions, MSIE SPs, is Explorer already
running at the time on either computer (in some cases, Windows may give preference
to an already running app).

 

[dan]

I've been with this for a week or two with my new laptop is running
Office 2002 in XP Pro. Last machine ran Office 97 in Win2K.

I insert hyperlink to images in Word documents. These are reports with
links to figure images. So I type Figure 1, select that text, ctrl-k
to insert hyprlink and type in filename.jpg or filename.gif to create
the hyperlink. These files are associated with Irfanview but when
click on the link in Word, the picture file opens in MS Photo Editor.
It worked correctly on the old machine but I can't find any setting to
make it stop doing this.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Don't know what this has to do with PowerPoint. But, do you have Ifranview
on your new Laptop? If so, it is just a matter of determining what opens
your image file. Right click on the image, and select the Opens with what
option and make your choice.

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| I've been with this for a week or two with my new laptop is running
| Office 2002 in XP Pro. Last machine ran Office 97 in Win2K.
|
| I insert hyperlink to images in Word documents. These are reports with
| links to figure images. So I type Figure 1, select that text, ctrl-k
| to insert hyprlink and type in filename.jpg or filename.gif to create
| the hyperlink. These files are associated with Irfanview but when
| click on the link in Word, the picture file opens in MS Photo Editor.
| It worked correctly on the old machine but I can't find any setting to
| make it stop doing this.
|

 

[dan]

The hyperlink question doesn't have anything to do with Powerpoint or
Word. It is really an Office question. I posted here since the person
who started this thread had the same problem in Powerpoint that I have
in Word. I have Irfanview installed and my computer is plugged in. If
the Word part is a problem for you, don't read any further. If it
doesn't bother you, I'll tell you how I finally got the hyperlinked
images to open with the correct program.

So the problem is that an Office hyperlink opens a jpeg in MS Photo
Editor but jpegs otherwise open with Irfanview. When I checked the
files allowed to open jpegs in the file association, it listed 3
programs: Irfanview, MS Photo Editor, and Windows Picture & Fax Viewer.
I removed MS Photo Editor from this list. Hyperlinks still opened
jpegs in Photo Editor.

I renamed the MS Photo editor executable. Then the hyperlink caused
Office installer to pop up and try to reinstall Photo Editor. I hit
cancel enough times to get it to quit and then the jpeg opened in
Irfanview.

I then went into add/remove programs and selected "change" for Office
and then clicked on "add/remove features". I found MS Photo Editor
under Office Tools and changed it to "not available". I rebooted and
tried a hyperlink from my Word doc. Nothing opened and it gave me a
error message about target program not available or something like
that. I went back into the file associations and jpegs were still
associated with irfanview. I reassociated it with Irfanview again.
That fixed everything and a hyperlink to a jpeg now opens in Irfanview.


So try to uninstall MS Photo Editor and then re-associate jpeg image
files to your preferred program.

 

[Michael Koerner]

It is not an Office problem, it is a Windows problem Your definition of
hypelinking seems to differ from mine. When I hyperlink to an image in
either PowerPoint or Word, Or Excel means that I do not physically insert
that image into my document rather I link to the place on my computer where
that image is stored, and when I open that document the image is displayed.

If you want Ifranview to open your image file then you need to change the
file association in your Windows XP.

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| The hyperlink question doesn't have anything to do with Powerpoint or
| Word. It is really an Office question. I posted here since the person
| who started this thread had the same problem in Powerpoint that I have
| in Word. I have Irfanview installed and my computer is plugged in. If
| the Word part is a problem for you, don't read any further. If it
| doesn't bother you, I'll tell you how I finally got the hyperlinked
| images to open with the correct program.
|
| So the problem is that an Office hyperlink opens a jpeg in MS Photo
| Editor but jpegs otherwise open with Irfanview. When I checked the
| files allowed to open jpegs in the file association, it listed 3
| programs: Irfanview, MS Photo Editor, and Windows Picture & Fax Viewer.
| I removed MS Photo Editor from this list. Hyperlinks still opened
| jpegs in Photo Editor.
|
| I renamed the MS Photo editor executable. Then the hyperlink caused
| Office installer to pop up and try to reinstall Photo Editor. I hit
| cancel enough times to get it to quit and then the jpeg opened in
| Irfanview.
|
| I then went into add/remove programs and selected "change" for Office
| and then clicked on "add/remove features". I found MS Photo Editor
| under Office Tools and changed it to "not available". I rebooted and
| tried a hyperlink from my Word doc. Nothing opened and it gave me a
| error message about target program not available or something like
| that. I went back into the file associations and jpegs were still
| associated with irfanview. I reassociated it with Irfanview again.
| That fixed everything and a hyperlink to a jpeg now opens in Irfanview.
|
|
| So try to uninstall MS Photo Editor and then re-associate jpeg image
| files to your preferred program.
|

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Don't know what this has to do with PowerPoint. But, do you have Ifranview
on your new Laptop? If so, it is just a matter of determining what opens
your image file. Right click on the image, and select the Opens with what
option and make your choice.

I'm seeing what the two others have described.

I've got two copies of XP here, both with 2003.

If I select text and insert a hyperlink (or set an action setting, link to
file) and point to a JPG, when I play the presentation and click the link, I
get MS PhotoEdit on one system and MSIE on another, regardless of what app I've
got the default for JPGs set to (and whatever I set it to DOES launch when I
doubleclick the JPG in Win Explorer).

Very odd.

I'm guessing that MS has taught Office to use a range of apps that it knows and
understands as the preferred "launch pads" for image files, rather than
trusting to who knows what that one of use might have installed.

Makes a certain amount of sense viewed in that light, but certainly annoying if
you know what you're doing and why.

 

[Guest]

I appreciate the follow-ups on this. I agree with Dan on his method for
getting around this annoyance. I too attempted to reassociate my preferred
app to open JPGs, and every attempt resulted with the wrong app displaying
the image.

I can get around this on my computer by disabling MS Paint, but the other
computer that triggers IE to open and display the image is not going to work
with Dan's work around. I don't want to uninstall IE. I don't like throwing
in the towel, but for the time being my laptop is to be used for the
presentation since it now operates as I wanted.

Thanks again for everyone's suggestions!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I forgot to mention one way you can force the issue; this is really only
reliable on your own PC for reasons that'll be obvious:

Instead of a hyperlink, use an Action Setting.

Set the Action to Run Program

In the Run Program box put:

"FullPathTo\Program.exe" "FullPathTo\FileToOpen.ext"

Substitute the full path to the program you want to run and the file you want
to open with it. Rightclick on the program's icon and choose Properties.
That'll gen'ly get you a screen where you can copy the full path rather than
having to remember and retype it.

The quote marks aren't always necessary but will never cause problems, so it's
a good habit to use them consistently.