Hyperlinking Question

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I built a PowerPoint presentation in version 2000 of
Office adn Windows 98. It contains hyperlinks to a WORD
document. The WORD document has a glossary of terms at
top. Bookmarks take you to the definition for each term
which is further down in the text.

I copied the presentation and the WORD document to a CD
and brought it from home to work where I copied the
PowerPoint presentation and the associated WORD document
to the hard drive on my computer at work. We have
Mocrosoft XP at work and Ofice 2002.

The process of linking from the PowerPoint slide to the
WORD doc works fine. The link from the term at top of the
WORD doc to the bookmarked point in the doc works fine.
What does not work is the back arrow on the toolbar. It
takes you from the bookmarked location in the WORD doc
back to the top of the doc BUT the back arrow then dims
and you cannot use it to get back to the slide in the
PowerPoint where the original hyperlink took you to the
WORD doc. Is there a way to make this arrow work?
 
I've never know the back button to be able to take you from Word to
PowerPoint. However, all you really need to do is to close Word by clicking
the top right "X" and you will return to your presentation. Or you can
always click ALT-TAB if you want to leave Word open.
 
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Hello,

Once you navigate away from the slide show to another application (by
following a hyperlink in the show), the other application doesn't know that
it was launched by PowerPoint so there's no way for it to provide a
mechanism to return back to the slide show.

There are a couple of workarounds such as... put all of the external
content you want to link to into the presentation instead (even it means a
static representation instead of live data), or, if the external content
can be hosted within a web page and viewed in a browser, put the content
there, link to the URL from PowerPoint and view you presentation as a web
page (this allows you to take advantage of the browser's (not PowerPoint's)
"Back" capability to return to the slide show page in the browser after
following a hyperlink to another web page.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide a more intuitive method for returning to a slide show
after hyperlinking to non-PowerPoint content during a slide show (without
having to resort to VBA or add-ins), don't forget to send your feedback (in
YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

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

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