My PDF Links are not opening up in FRONT of my presentation....Hel

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Hello:
I have a presentation that has a menu slide. The menu slide has several
items that have links to pdf files. When I package my presentation to cd and
play it, some of my pdf files through the links open up BEHIND my
presentation, while some of them open up in FRONT of my presentation. I
would like them to all open up in FRONT of the presentation. How do I do
this? My slide presentation is in full screen mode. Could this be the
problem? If so, how do I fix my problem?
 
Hello:
I have a presentation that has a menu slide. The menu slide has several
items that have links to pdf files. When I package my presentation to cd and
play it, some of my pdf files through the links open up BEHIND my
presentation, while some of them open up in FRONT of my presentation. I
would like them to all open up in FRONT of the presentation. How do I do
this? My slide presentation is in full screen mode. Could this be the
problem?
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I don't think so; if full screen mode were the problem, then all the links
would open up behind, wouldn't they?

Keep in mind that it only takes one click to activate a link, but that it might
take a while for the linked app to wake up and come forward.

If you doubleclick, the second click might be enough to reactivate the PPT
screen show and bring IT forward again, obscuring your PDF.
 
No, I am only clicking it once. Is there some type of preference on
powerpoint that I might have set wrong that opens files behind the slide? Or
perhaps it is not a powerpoint issue at all. Maybe it is the way the pdf
file was created?
 
No, I am only clicking it once. Is there some type of preference on
powerpoint that I might have set wrong that opens files behind the slide? Or
perhaps it is not a powerpoint issue at all. Maybe it is the way the pdf
file was created?
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That's possible, though I don't know of any specific property that'd cause this. A
couple places to look for differences, though:

The PDF document open settings. If it's set to open fullscreen, I'd bet it'd pop to
the foreground, where if set to open in a window it might not.

Whether Acrobat/Reader is already open when you click the link for the next PDF. In
other words, it might behave differently if you

- click a link
- Reader opens the file
- Quit reader
- click a link, etc

vs

- click a link
- Reader opens the file
- MINIMIZE Reader or just click back to PPT
- click a link, etc.
 
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