Hyperlink Problems

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Ann

In a recent presention, we hyperlinked numerous
presentations using action buttons and experienced some
puzzling behavior. In selected cases, the action buttons
would take us to the wrong slide in the correct
presentation--8 out 10 times the link would operate
correctly and the other 2 times it would go to a
completely different slide for no apparent reason. We
checked and double-checked the links and they were
correctly set up.

In other cases, the action buttons would sporadically take
us to completely wrong files (totally unrelated to our
presentation and not the files specified in the
hyperlinks).

Here are more clues: we noticed that in the cases where
the hyperlink worked correctly, the action button appeared
to "depress" when we clicked on it. In cases where the
link did not work, this "depression" did not appear.

We are experienced with hyperlinking and have never had
these problems--even in files that contain many more
hyperlinks than this presentation. The problem recurred
on every computer connected to our network. We are
running PowerPoint 2000 with Windows 2000 Professional.
Any ideas?
 
Ann,

When the action button appears to work (the depress)....this is because the
action settings is probably set to "highlight click".

When you noticed no "depress/highlight"....then powerpoint could simply be
going to the next slide...as in a normal mouse click.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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There's a limited amount of data storage allocated to storing link info in
PowerPoint.
It's hard to get a good fix on exactly what it takes to put it over the top
and hard to pin down exactly what will happen when there's more link data
than will fit, but it sounds to me as though you may've hit it.

Our FixLinks utility demo (free) will report on the approximate amount of
data taken up by your links. You might want to download it (
http://get.pptools.com ) and see what it says about your presentation. If
it reports anything over, say, 40k, the presentation is probably on the
edge.

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Steve Rindsberg PPT MVP
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