powerpoint and hyperlinks

[mercmannick]

wonder if this is possible in powerpoint,

i have a slide thats got a load of hyperlinks that i am trying to use for our daily meetings.
what we use at our daily meetings, (at the moment i am using excel sheet with hyperlinks)

what i am not sure about is with the excel sheet you have a button to go back to main sheet from any you have hyperlinked from,

but everytime i try and use the powerpoint page and hyperlink to a file the only way back is to close excel and start slideshow agian.

Is there a easyer way ?

Many Thanks

Merc

 

[mercmannick]

anyone ?


Merc

 

[gwkenny]

Please be very clear in outlining the problem.

My understanding is that you have a PowerPoint Slideshow with many hyperlinks to files in other programs (including Excel).

In the middle of running through your PowerPoint slide show, you click on a hyperlink that opens an Excel file.

The Excel file opens.

Now I am at a loss at what happens with your machine.

On my machine, I close the Excel file and the SlideShow is in progress where I clicked on the Hyperlink and I can proceed with my presentation.

Please describe the situation on your machine when you close Excel.

 

[mercmannick]

when you close excel .
and go back to PP you have to restrat the slide show again



Merc

 

[gwkenny]

Alright, let me try this:

When you close Excel, is PowerPoint still open?

If PowerPoint is still open, is your presentation still open but no longer in SlideShow? Or do you have to re-open your presentation?

Have you tried duplicating this problem on another machine.

Have you tried this with a relatively empty Excel file and new PowerPoint presentation?

I've tried what you want to do on three machines. All three machines behave the same.

While in slideshow mode, clicking on a hyperlink opens Excel and the resulting linked file. Closing Excel brings you back to the PowerPoint presentation in slideshow, where the hyperlink was originally clicked.

Does your PowerPoint have any macros?

Is the Excel file you are opening have any autoopen or close macros that could interfere.

In PowerPoint, does your hyperlink have an action setting besides opening the hyperlinked file?

Unless your stuff is macro'd up, I'd guess that you have a corrupt file. So try doing what you want on new plain vanilla files. If that doesn't work, try emailing them to somebody to duplicate your problem as my systems behaves as one would expect.

 

[mercmannick]

OK Thanks gwkenny

i will try this at work tomorrow

Merc