I changed the return destination of a slide from one slide to another. As an
follows: The menu slide allows you to hyperlink into five different
catagories. Upon entering catagory one I realized that the end slide
hyperlinked to the wrong slide. I went into the hyperlink information and on
the list I changed the destination of the hyperlink. After I found I had a
problem, I thought there might be the possibility that I should have removed
the link and then created a new one. This thought process is because
changing the destination on that one slide is the only single action that I
had done prior to the problem. All of the others things I did had also been
done prior to the problem. The logical conclusion is that the single action
resulted in the problem. The problem with the logic is that with computers
the logical thought process is not that of the user but that which the
programmer assumes to be the user's.
As a sometime programmer, I have to say that you've put your finger on it
there.
That's not to fault the user either. ;-)
One of my little PPT programs works with links, as it happens. And there's a
free demo that creates a handy report of all the links in a presentation.
That might help diagnose this; if you'd like, download and install the
FixLinks demo (
http://get.pptools.com) and run a links report on the original
presentation (on your hard drive, that I assume still works as expected) and
on a copy of the presentation after you've burned it to CD and verified that
it doesn't work.
By comparing the two, we may be able to work out the problem. Copy and paste
the results of both reports here and I'll have a look.
Thank you for putting so much effort
into this problem.
Steve Rindsberg said:
I asked that question myself and in analysing my actions the only thing that
I did any differently was to change the destination of one hyperlink. Could
that result in this problem?
Changed how? Working out what makes links breaks requires painfully specific
information.
