How do I force hyperlinked documents to show in the browser window

[Graham Knight]

I have powerpoint slides on my website - the slides have hyperlinks to other
documents on that website. I'm doping this to share information with
colleagues. Sometimes when I click the hyperlink the linked document appears
in the browser window and sometimes the native application launches (ppt,
word, excel...). How do I force the linked document to always appear in the
same browser window as the original presentation? I often find that if I
close the powerpoint window and click the link again, then I get the document
in the browser window. I find that when linking to word documents they
almost invariably open Word.

Any suggestions please?

 

[Graham Knight]

Steve,

Many thanks indeed - lots of options to consider. But I think that I have
found a way to make it work the way I want - but testing is needed (as
always). I'll work on it some more and let you know how I get on. Very
helpful

 

[Graham Knight]

Steve,

I'm struggling a bit here. Having thought I had solved the problem I now
have others. Let me explain - this is all connected with my post last week
about hyperlink base.

I am trying to provide colleaues all over the world with a mechanism to
access and contribute intellectual capital (in the form of word documents,
PPTs, etc). We''l not touch the contribute part but just access for the
moment. I have built a master slide with a standard taxonomy of the
important categories of information. It's an appealing picture (icon if you
will). Lots of coloured text boxes with hyperlinked text. I want to give
the user the opportunity to left click (open/show) or right click (download).
I want make it easy by having everything in one browser window. So
following your advice I built an html page (save ppt as html) with all the
top level links which go straight to the 'iconic' view - behind that are
other hyperlinks to the detailed documents themselves. Basically it works
fine on my main PC - but when I try it on another one the behaviour is
inconsistent - sometimes the file download occurs and the doc opens in the
native application - sometimes the resulting doc appears in the bowser. And
now I've found that the jump slide hyperlinks that I thought I had fixed last
week doesn't work either - it does on my main PC but not on the machine I am
using for usability test. For example: A hyperlink of the form
(http//:myserver/myfilesystem/mydirectory/this_document.ppt#7. slide title)
to go to another page - as I think you suggested.
I've looked at the suggestion about editing the registry settings - but that
might fix it for me - but I couldn't expect other users (potentially many
thousands) to do that.

Any ideas?