Smartart hyperlinks

[Peter Demuynck (Belgium)]

In Powerpoint 2003 i used the organogram object with hyperlinks to documents
with description of the functions in the organogram.
In transition to powerpoint 2007, smartart converted the organogram to a
Smartart object. Beautiful, but... the hyperlinks are still stored, but not
recognized! It doesn't work anymore.
Even with creating a new powerpoint 2007 presentation, with a new
organogram, the hyperlinks didn't work. (putting the hyperlink just on the
slide instead of on the smartart, makes the hyperlink work)
Question:
is this a bug or is there a security issue that blocks the hyperlink?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

What I have found is that you need to put "hidden" objects over your
SmartArt diagrams in order to set up multiple links. To do that, add a box
or circle over each diagram area that needs to be a link. Add the links.
Select the new objects and format them to have no line and a 98% transparent
fill. Save the changes and play your slides. The hyperlinks will be back and
usable.

(As far as I can tell, what is going on is that the entire diagram is
treated as one object, so there is no way to add hyperlinks to the
individual pieces.)

--
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Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
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[Peter Demuynck (Belgium)]

Thank you, Kathy, for this first reaction, and an 'intermediate' solution.

I wanted to use Powerpoint to quickly create the organogram, and put these
files on sharepoint for the ISO certification.
Your 'workaround' is one, so I can get on, but there's something not logical
in the program:

- I have to spend much more time than in powerpoint 2003 to create the
organogram
- I actually ** can ** define a hyperlink, but they just don't work
- the program remembers the hyperlink, because when you 'mouseover' the
hyperlink, it (he/she?) shows a text balloon with the hyperlink explanation.
- You can even rightclick to 'add to favourites'.
So it is there, but for some reason, it may not work...

 

[Ute Simon]

Another workaround, if you do not need to change the organogram later on:
Select all objects within the SmartArt, copy them and paste them to a new
slide as forms. These can have hyperlinks, but the SmartArt functionality
ist gone.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Thanks for reporting it. Hope it goes better than when I did

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

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[Peter Demuynck (Belgium)]

I indeed would like to report this to Microsoft, but I don't know how this
should be done ? Is it (like a friend told me) that I have to pay to report a
possible bug?

 

[Peter Demuynck (Belgium)]

Many thanks, Steve.
Now, is there a way that Microsoft Redmond can report to me when this
problem will be resolved (otherwise, I do have to buy another program like
SmartDraw , or perhaps downgrade to office 2003?).

As again, many thanks!