Problems with hyperlinks to jpg files

[Jan Kronsell]

I have tried asking this question to the Excel crew, but nobody could help
me there, so now I try here, as the problem goes for Powerpoint (and Word
and Access) as well.

In Explorer jpg files are associated with Irfanview, and clicking the file
in Explorers opens the file i Irfanview, OK.
But when I insert a hyperlink to a jpg file in Powerpoint, PhotorEditor is
always used for opening then file.
I have tried changing the association to PhotoShopor other programs in
Explorer, and in clicking in Explorer now opens the file in Photoshop or any
other selected program, but the hyperlink keeps opening in PhotoEditor. Is
there anyway I can change this? That is make hyperlinks open with the
program I decide, not PP.

I've been searching thru the registry file, but dont seem to be able to find
any key, that contains the program used to open jpg files via a hyperlink.

Using Win XP Pro and PP XP and by the way, when I renames Photoed.exe to
something else, I couldnt open the hyperlink at all. In stead an
installation process for Photoeditor was initated and I was asked for my
Office Cd :-(

Regards Jan

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Updates".]

Hello Jan,

Are you sure that you are inserting a hyperlink to a *.jpg and not
inserting a linked or embedded PhotoEditor object which contains a *.jpg
image? If you're doing the latter, that would explain the behavior that you
are getting since OLE behavior has nothing to do with file extension
associations in the Windows shell.

If you tell us the exact steps you are using in PowerPoint (Word and Excel)
to "insert", it will be easy for us to tell what you actually have.

Another way to tell is to right-click on the object (?) in PowerPoint (Word
or Excel) and, in the context menu which comes up, see if there is a menu
item that is listed something like "Photo Editer Photo Object" or "Linked
Photo Editor Photo Object". If you see something like that, you definitely
have a linked or embedded OLE object.

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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[Sonia]

John, I've always encountered the same behavior as Jan describes and I just
tested it in PowerPoint 2002 to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Outside of
PowerPoint I click on a JPG and it opens in IrfanView, because that's how I
have my file association set up. From slide show mode the same image opens
in Photo Editor. I created the link via Insert > Hyperlink >
barbed-wire00027gfy.jpeg.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Strange indeed. Since this seems to be an Office-wide setting, you might
want to post the question in the Office newsgroup to see if this has come
up before and whether an explanation/workaround is available.

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

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[Sonia]

Will do, because I just tested the behavior in Word and got the same
results.

 

[Jan Kronsell]

Hi John

I insert my hyperlink via Insert Hyperlink.

And as Sonia explained I also tried the samenin Access, PP, Word and Excel
and with the same negative result. Thats why I thought it could be a
registry setting somewhere. Only I haven been able to figure out which one.

Jan