powerpoint 2003 hyperlinks sometimes go to wrong destination

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Help! My Powerpoint 2003 hyperlinks sometimes go to wrong destinations. I've cut down my menu from 14 to two separate menus with 7 and then 6 items. Still the hyperlinks intermittantly go to the wrong place. Any ideas? Thanks
 
Hi,

Yes, I've seen it a couple of times and don't really know of a way around
it. Are your links based on text? If so, maybe you could try to link to
individual boxes with text in them. I would be happy to look at your file to
see if your problem is consistent with others I have seen, but I'll be away
again for a week.

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jackie blue said:
Help! My Powerpoint 2003 hyperlinks sometimes go to wrong destinations.
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I've cut down my menu from 14 to two separate menus with 7 and then 6 items.
Still the hyperlinks intermittantly go to the wrong place. Any ideas?
Thanks
 
I believe that PowerPoint has a limited amount of space to store hyperlinks (for the overall presentation, not individual slides, I think). But 14 doesn't seem like too many, unless there are dozens of other ones throughout the presentation that you're not telling us about
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Help! My Powerpoint 2003 hyperlinks sometimes go to wrong destinations. I've cut
Click to expand...
down my menu from 14 to two separate menus with 7 and then 6 items. Still the
hyperlinks intermittantly go to the wrong place. Any ideas? Thanks
Put your presentation in slideshow view then press TAB repeatedly. Each time you
press TAB, PowerPoint will highlight the next hyperlink or action setting with a
dotted line.

Look for hyperlinks in places where you don't expect any, PARTICULARLY hyperlinks that
apply only to spaces or paragraph endings, not real text. Earlier versions of PPT
seem able to cope with these, but they make PPT2003 bonkers and can trash any
subsequent links.

If you find one of these, try deleting the text it's applied to, then recreating it.
Don't just copy/delete/paste it back, as that will retain the bad link that started
the trouble.
 
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