Hyperlinks

[Guest]

I am using a Powerpoint file to create a 'table of contents" by listing a
series of .pdf files and creating hyperlinks in Powerpoint so the user can
click on the hyperlink and the .pdf file will open. I saved the table of
contents file in mhtml format so I could use it in an autorun file for users
that may not have Powerpoint loaded. When I open the table of contents file
in a browser, and click on the hyperlinks I created, the .pdf files open in
the same browser window. Is there any way I can cause the .pdf files to open
in a new browser window on all users' machines?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am using a Powerpoint file to create a 'table of contents" by listing a
series of .pdf files and creating hyperlinks in Powerpoint so the user can
click on the hyperlink and the .pdf file will open. I saved the table of
contents file in mhtml format so I could use it in an autorun file for users
that may not have Powerpoint loaded. When I open the table of contents file
in a browser, and click on the hyperlinks I created, the .pdf files open in
the same browser window. Is there any way I can cause the .pdf files to open
in a new browser window on all users' machines?

It'd be a lot easier if you started with plain HTML file instead of the rather
arcane, byzantine stuff that PPT squirts out.

Better too. MHTML isn't universally readable by all browsers.

To open a link in a new window you'd do

<a href="myfile.pdf" target="somename">Click here to view MyFile.PDF</a>

You could export your PPT slide to an image file, use that as the HTML file's
background, put a series of links like the above atop it and it'd be compatible
with pretty much any computer with a browser and Reader. And would load faster.