broken hyperlink in PowerPoint

[J Buchanan]

I am running PowerPoint:mac 2001 and am having trouble
creating a working link between PP and html files.

After selecting the html file (see routine below), and
displaying the PP slide in slide show, clicking on the
link opens the application that created the html file
(Dreamweaver) rather than IE which should then display
the html file. I haven't had this problem on the Windows
side of things, just on the Mac (in PowerPoint for
Windows, clicking on the link when in slide show launches
IE which then displays the html page.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Routine=====


1. Highlight the text to be linked in PowerPoint.

2. From the menu bar, pull down at Insert to Hyperlink.

3. At dialogue box ("Insert Hyperlink") tab on "Document"
and click on Select button.

4. At next dialogue box ("Choose a File"), highlight the
html file to be linked to and click once on the Open
button.

5. Back to the "Insert Hyperlink" dialogue box: The "Link
to" window displays the file path which in this case is:
(../ECF100demo/cmecfcrim/06discovery/0601menu.html).
Click on OK button to close file.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for posting the full description.

I think the problem is that you're linking to a document file. Clicking on
one of these links while in slide show view normally produces the same
effect as doubleclicking the same file's icon in the Finder would, I'm
pretty sure.

Try inserting the hyperlink as a web link instead (you can insert a document
link to get the correct path, copy it, delete it, then switch to the Web
link tab and paste in the path). I think this should launch the same file
in your browser.

I can't test this adequately here since I don't have any application
"registered" as the app for editing html files; either type of link
launches in the browser here.

But give this a shot and please let me know how it works out. Thanks.


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[J Buchanan]

Steve--thanks for the reply.

I tried your suggestion but didn't have success. I also
carefully followed the Microsoft online help directions
also without success.

Were you able to get PowerPoint to launch an html file on
your Mac ("either type of link launches in the browser
here.")?

One of our systems folks here thinks the culprit is file
association and that in order for PP to launch the html
file it has to first be associated with IE. We tried this
and it worked but the prospect of associating hundreds of
files this way .... it doesn't make sense that you would
have to do this. It works just fine in the Windows
versions -- I am wondering if it just won't work on a Mac?

Thanks again.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Were you able to get PowerPoint to launch an html file on

your Mac ("either type of link launches in the browser
here.")?

Yes, that's what I meant. Both types of links (web and document) launched
in the browser.

One of our systems folks here thinks the culprit is file
association and that in order for PP to launch the html
file it has to first be associated with IE. We tried this
and it worked but the prospect of associating hundreds of
files this way .... it doesn't make sense that you would
have to do this. It works just fine in the Windows
versions -- I am wondering if it just won't work on a Mac?

Or perhaps it does ordinarily, UNLESS something like Dreamweaver's taken
over the file association?

Do you have a Mac w/o Dreamweaver you could try it on?

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi

Check the setting in the Internet control panel. At the bottom it has a
setting for the default web browser. Sounds like yours might be set to
DreamWeaver.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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