Why does a hyperlink in a word document open a ppt file as a pps .

[Guest]

I have a word document with a hyperlink to a ppt file. when opening the
link, the ppt file not only opens as a pps, but it seems to be in a web based
power point viewer. Any suggestions as to allowing the link to be opened as
a ppt and what is this viewer that I'm seeing?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a word document with a hyperlink to a ppt file. when opening the
link, the ppt file not only opens as a pps, but it seems to be in a web based
power point viewer. Any suggestions as to allowing the link to be opened as
a ppt and what is this viewer that I'm seeing?

You're seeing an instance of PowerPoint "hosted" within Word (much as you'd see
an instance of PPT hosted within a browser were you to open the PPT in MSIE or
the like).

It's a bit ugly but try this:

Create a file called Whatever.BAT using Notepad

It should contain this:

@echo off
start c:\wherever\yourfile.ppt
exit


Of course, name the file whatever you like and edit the contents to reflect the
actual path/name of your PPT file.

Hyperlink to the bat file instead of the PPT file.

 

[Guest]

You're seeing an instance of PowerPoint "hosted" within Word (much as you'd see
an instance of PPT hosted within a browser were you to open the PPT in MSIE or
the like).

It's a bit ugly but try this:

Create a file called Whatever.BAT using Notepad

It should contain this:

@echo off
start c:\wherever\yourfile.ppt
exit


Of course, name the file whatever you like and edit the contents to reflect the
actual path/name of your PPT file.

Hyperlink to the bat file instead of the PPT file.

I understand the work around but there is another mystery that I don't
understand. My co-worker removed PowerPoint Viewer 97 from her computer. From
then on, when she linked to a PowerPoint document from Word, it no longer
opened as a Slide Show but rather in "regular" PowerPoint.

However, I do not have PowerPoint Viewer 97 installed on my computer. Is
there another Viewer that displays PowerPoints as Slide Shows? I am on
Windows XP.

Thanks.

 

[Sonia]

The PowerPoint 97 Viewer is available at:
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx

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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I understand the work around but there is another mystery that I don't
understand. My co-worker removed PowerPoint Viewer 97 from her computer. From
then on, when she linked to a PowerPoint document from Word, it no longer
opened as a Slide Show but rather in "regular" PowerPoint.

However, I do not have PowerPoint Viewer 97 installed on my computer. Is
there another Viewer that displays PowerPoints as Slide Shows? I am on
Windows XP.

It sounds as though perhaps the Viewer was registered as "owning" PPT files on your
co-worker's computer. It's not clear whether installing the viewer on a system with
PPT already there will produce this same result reliably. I don't believe it will.
Usually PPT "wins" ... ie, it's the program that gets invoked when you doubleclick a
PPT or whatever.

I seem to have lost the thread here though. How exactly did you put the PPT content
into Word?