clicking link to .ppt files problem in IE

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adam

One of my IE users, when clicking a link to a PowerPoint presentation (.ppt files), gets an interface that instructs her to add slides, instead of actually getting the file (or the option to Open or Save the linked file). I cannot duplicate the problem. The user has Office 2000 and uses FrontPage. There must be a setting that's causing this behavior. Anyone have any ideas

Thanks in advance.
 
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Tom Pepper Willett

I recommend you post this question to the PowerPoint newsgroup.
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| One of my IE users, when clicking a link to a PowerPoint presentation
(.ppt files), gets an interface that instructs her to add slides, instead of
actually getting the file (or the option to Open or Save the linked file).
I cannot duplicate the problem. The user has Office 2000 and uses
FrontPage. There must be a setting that's causing this behavior. Anyone
have any ideas?
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| Thanks in advance.
 
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rob lake

Will do. However, the user has never used PowerPoint, but is using FrontPage to create hyperlinks from an html file to PowerPoint files.
 
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chris leeds

show me a link to this. I've seen accidental hyperlinks that launch desktop
software (I've seen it with outlook). I'd like to see it.


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adam said:
One of my IE users, when clicking a link to a PowerPoint presentation
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(.ppt files), gets an interface that instructs her to add slides, instead of
actually getting the file (or the option to Open or Save the linked file).
I cannot duplicate the problem. The user has Office 2000 and uses
FrontPage. There must be a setting that's causing this behavior. Anyone
have any ideas?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

I have no problem viewing the PPT under PP 2000 running under Windows XP Home with IE6.


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chris leeds

in the case I mentioned with outlook it was a designer induced issue. a
simple error. I think there might be something wrong with your users
machine. have them open PowerPoint and hit help/ detect and repair and see
if that fixes it on their machine.

btw it opened "regular" for me.

HTH

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rob lake said:
The example page is:
http://library.boisestate.edu/loex2004/Conf/Program.htm

The link that works for me, but causes the strangeness for another user is
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here on the page I mention above:
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

The problem is the file name and link (%7E instead of a tilde ~) to
<A href="http://www2.mtroyal.ca/~mmacmillan/conf/Loex2.ppt">
http://www2.mtroyal.ca/~mmacmillan/conf/Loex2.ppt

Try changing it to
http://www2.mtroyal.ca/~mmacmillan/conf/Loex2.ppt




| The example page is:
| http://library.boisestate.edu/loex2004/Conf/Program.htm
|
| The link that works for me, but causes the strangeness for another user is here on the page I mention above:
| Friday, June 4, 2004 | Program 5: Integration vs Growth: Resolvable Differences?
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| Do you recall what you did to "repair" the issue with Outlook being launched?
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| "chris leeds" wrote:
|
| > show me a link to this. I've seen accidental hyperlinks that launch desktop
| > software (I've seen it with outlook). I'd like to see it.
| >
| >
| > --
| > The email address on this posting is a "black hole". I got tired of all the
| > spam.
| > Please feel free to contact me here:
| > http://nedp.net/contact/
| > --
| >
| >
| > | > > One of my IE users, when clicking a link to a PowerPoint presentation
| > (.ppt files), gets an interface that instructs her to add slides, instead of
| > actually getting the file (or the option to Open or Save the linked file).
| > I cannot duplicate the problem. The user has Office 2000 and uses
| > FrontPage. There must be a setting that's causing this behavior. Anyone
| > have any ideas?
| > >
| > > Thanks in advance.
| >
| >
| >
 
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