Hyperlinks

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Linda

I am using PP2000 and have created a training project that
supplement our course books. On the master slide I have
put a link to the Menu as well as page foward and back
arrows and an exit link to end show. I hyperlinked the
word Menu as well as the box. Then on the menu slide I
hyperlinked to the slide at the begining of each chapter.
I set up to view on koisk and save as show.pps. I copy
this into a small program I downloaded which allows me to
put this on a cd and distribute it so that it will autorun
and if the user does not have PP it will put the viewer on
their computer.

The problem is that the Menu hyperlink as well as the
links on the menu does not work on the distribution copy.
The arrows and the Exit link does. I have a half dozen
different courses I have done this with and on some it did
work. Is there any way to assure that these links to
other slides in the same show will function properly?
These are large files with anywhere from 300 to 500 slides
that include audio.

Thanks for your help.
 
Did you or the program also put the linked files on the CD? If not that is
the reason the links don't work. Or if the links were not created as
"relative", they may be breaking, even if they are on the CD. Remember,
links are just "pointers" to another file. The pointer is an address. If
the address is pointing to an absoluted location on a hard drive, the link
will "break" when the presentation is distributed.
 
All I did was use the Action buttons to create a link to
the Menu slide and then on the menu I highlighted the text
and went to the action setting and linked to a slide in my
presentation. In other presentations this was working
with no problem. However now even if I just save and
close the file and reopen it the links are broken. Any
suggestions? Also how do I know if the links are relative?
 
Before creating the links, gather ALL of the files along with the
presentation files in a single folder. Then add the links. Because they
are in the same folder at the time that the links are created, the link will
tell PowerPoint and/or the Viewer to look in the same folder as the
presentation to find the file. Then, when you create the CD, move all of
the files to the CD and keep them all together. That will ensure that the
links don't break.

Remember: With a presentation that is already created, you can't just
gather the files together and expect the links to work. You have to delete
the links and re-create them.
 
hi from germany
i'm sorry there is no possibility to use vb und hyperlinks
together with the standalone pp-player.
 
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