Launching new browser window

[Guest]

I need to open a new browser window when a user clicks on http link in my
PowerPoint deck.

I am giving a presentation next week.
I will need to place the deck on a server and send out the path to the
audience.

So people will most likely be viewing the deck inside their browsers

There are a number of http links inside of the deck
What I would like to happen is when a user clicks on a link in the deck a
new browser window opens

Current when a user clicks on a click their browser just goes to the address
in the link.

They would then have to use the back button to go back to the PowerPoint
deck and I am sure to lose a few people.

I have to stay in Powerpoint, meaning I can’t export to html.
I tried to change the link targets via Microsoft Script Editor but it didn’t
work

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The fundamental problem here is that unless you can control each user's computer,
you can't control what their browsers will do with your PPT file.

Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your reply. In this case since the audience members are all at
one company and their computers are managed by the IT department for close
to 90% of the views the ppt file will be open in their browsers.

This is why I need to have the embedded site links launch a new browser
window.

Right now what happens is
A user clicks on the link to the PowerPoint deck.
They are prompted to open the file
The file opens in their browser
Then a few slides into the presentation they click on a http link which
takes them to a website
After we are done speaking about the site they hit the back button which
again prompted to open the file
They open the PowerPoint deck and are back to slide 1
We then have to skip forward

This would all be eliminated if I can just set the A href target value to new
<A href = www.sitename.com target=_new">

After I change the vaule using MS Script it changes back to _blank when I
hit save

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thank you for your reply. In this case since the audience members are all at
one company and their computers are managed by the IT department for close
to 90% of the views the ppt file will be open in their browsers.

Then I'm afraid you're stuck with the way the browser opens PPT files and the
way PPT handles links from within a browser.

I understand and sympathize with the problem, but there's just no way to target
a new window for URLs in this situation. PPT doesn't support it.

Other options that might give you more control:

- Work out a way to ensure that users open the presentation in PPT and not the
browser.

- Use Shyam's LiveWeb addin to embed a web page within a PPT slide (would
require the addin be installed in PPT on all of the audience PCs)

- Convert the PPT to HTML; you could either edit the HTML from PPT (horrendous
thought) or use a different tool to make the HTML. We have a commercial addin
that does this and can be set to launch URLs in a different window
automatically w/o your having to edit anything. http://ppt2html.pptools.com
for info/demo.