problem hyperlinks - no commas

[AMD]

Hi

I can't get my hyperlinks to other slides to work properly in ppt 2007.
Choosing 'next slide', 'last slide' etc under action settings works fine but
I have 4 buttons on one slide that I want to use to move to slides 4, 5, 6,
7. When I set the second button to go to 'slide...' to choose slide 7 for
example I can see the slide in the preview and select it, but the link
doesn't work in the slideshow. I get the pop-up message about security and
then a message saying it can't open the specified file.

It's a short ppt (24 slides) and I have only the 4 buttons in so far so I
don't think I've gone over the info limit. None of the titles have commas -
they are all questions like 'what is the invention?'

Any ideas?
thanks.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

That is odd. I wonder if your file name has anything funky in it. Try
renaming the file to something really simple (no punctuation except
..pptx) and see if that helps. This is just a stab in the dark because I
can't reproduce that behavior and can't think of why it would happen.
--David

 

[John Wilson]

You seem to be setting internal hyperlinks so I don't understand the
reference to security messages and opening files??
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[Lucy Thomson]

Another stab in the dark here, but it sounds like you are somehow linking to
an existing file then selecting the slide (which would explain the security
message?). Try right clicking the object -> hyperlink -> place in this
document. Does it work now?

Lucy

 

[AMD]

Neither do i! The file is just saved on my desktop as 'eval opps 2007.pptx'.
there's no fancy pictures or file links in the ppt, just some clip art.
Interestingly it did this last time I tried to update the slides (in ppt
2003) and I gave up.

 

[AMD]

it was already pretty simple, but have saved as 'evaloppsnew' and still no
luck!

 

[AMD]

That's how I've been doing it and no joy!

Another stab in the dark here, but it sounds like you are somehow linking to
an existing file then selecting the slide (which would explain the security
message?). Try right clicking the object -> hyperlink -> place in this
document. Does it work now?

Lucy

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www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

OK. This is very strange. My new stab-in-the-dark guess is that the file
has gotten corrupted. I wonder if a good-ol' round-trippin' might fix it
up. See:

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

Now, I'm not sure how this works in PPT 2007.

--David

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Oh well, worth a guess

I would try David's suggestion of round-tripping next if I were you.

Lucy

 

[AMD]

Still no joy. Nevermind - since they are slides for a friend to use, probably
best to keep them simple anyway.

Thanks for your help.