viewer won't load a hyperlinked word document

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Sean

When I run a show from the command line (ppview32
show.ppt) the viewer cannot find my hyperlinked word
document. When I load the show from within the viewer
interface, it works fine. Any ideas?

Sean
 
When I run a show from the command line (ppview32
show.ppt) the viewer cannot find my hyperlinked word
document. When I load the show from within the viewer
interface, it works fine. Any ideas?
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Remember the old DOS hassles with paths? They're still with us, Windows just
hides some of the ugliness from us.

When you start the viewer and load a presentation from within the viewer, the
viewer's probably setting the default path to that of the PPT file you just
opened.

When you open the viewer and load the presentation via the command line, it's
apparently not doing that, for whatever reasons.

What's the exact command line you're using to start the presentation?
Can you instead invoke a BAT file something like:

@echo off
rem Nothing personal, Ms. Swinford

CD C:\My Documents\Presentations\
rem or wherever your presentation and the viewer are stored

ppview32 mypresentation.ppt
rem or whatever the correct syntax is but it shouldn't require any
rem drive or path info, just the file names
 
That's exactly what I'm doing. Here's the batch file

@echo of
cl
cd\qui
ppview32 quiz.pp

I still get the Address Is Not Valid message when I try to open the hyperlink. I even tried hardcoding C:\Quiz\filename.doc in the hyperlink, still get the same message.
 
That's exactly what I'm doing. Here's the batch file:

@echo off
cls
cd\quiz
ppview32 quiz.ppt

I still get the Address Is Not Valid message when I try to open the
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hyperlink. I even tried hardcoding C:\Quiz\filename.doc in the hyperlink,
still get the same message.
Unfortunately, the viewer doesn't let us peek inside the black box like PPT
itself does, so it's hard to say exactly what's going on with paths ... MS
doesn't document it anywhere, for sure.

What happens if you try:

\quiz\ppview32 \quiz\quiz.ppt
 
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