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Hyperlink from individual Visio shapes to specific powerpoint slid
Greetings. I'm building a powerpoint presentation to explain the functions of
various parts of a new organization. I drew the organization chart in Visio and then copied and pasted (either linked or embedded) into an early chart in the ppt presentation. What I'd like to do is to be able to click on any one of the organization boxes on the org chart and then hyperlink to a specific slide that describes that part of the organization. Then I can use an Action button to come back to the org chart slide. Can I do that somehow? I only seem to be able to assign a single hyperlink to the entire org chart; its being treated as a single object. Its not unlike using an image map on an html page. Thanks -- Gregg |
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In article , Gregg wrote:
Greetings. I'm building a powerpoint presentation to explain the functions of various parts of a new organization. I drew the organization chart in Visio and then copied and pasted (either linked or embedded) into an early chart in the ppt presentation. What I'd like to do is to be able to click on any one of the organization boxes on the org chart and then hyperlink to a specific slide that describes that part of the organization. Then I can use an Action button to come back to the org chart slide. Can I do that somehow? I only seem to be able to assign a single hyperlink to the entire org chart; its being treated as a single object. Its not unlike using an image map on an html page. Thanks You can ungroup the chart and then treat each of its shapes as an individual object (ie, assign hyperlinks to them individually) or you can draw rectangles or other shapes atop the area of the chart where you want the link to be and assign the link to the rectangle. Depending on where you'll play this back, you may be able to then give the rectangles no line/no fill to make them invisible, or you may have to assign them a fill and make it almost totally transparent. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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Thanks Steve. I tried both of your suggestions. When I try to ungroup the org
chart I get a warning saying "Shape protection and/or layer properties prevent proper execution of this command." I think I saw something somewhere that said that organization charts in Visio had some special properties; maybe that's why they can't be ungrouped. Placing transparent borderless shapes on top of the chart and linking from them works great though. Appreciate the help. Gregg "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Gregg wrote: Greetings. I'm building a powerpoint presentation to explain the functions of various parts of a new organization. I drew the organization chart in Visio and then copied and pasted (either linked or embedded) into an early chart in the ppt presentation. What I'd like to do is to be able to click on any one of the organization boxes on the org chart and then hyperlink to a specific slide that describes that part of the organization. Then I can use an Action button to come back to the org chart slide. Can I do that somehow? I only seem to be able to assign a single hyperlink to the entire org chart; its being treated as a single object. Its not unlike using an image map on an html page. Thanks You can ungroup the chart and then treat each of its shapes as an individual object (ie, assign hyperlinks to them individually) or you can draw rectangles or other shapes atop the area of the chart where you want the link to be and assign the link to the rectangle. Depending on where you'll play this back, you may be able to then give the rectangles no line/no fill to make them invisible, or you may have to assign them a fill and make it almost totally transparent. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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In article , Gregg wrote:
Thanks Steve. I tried both of your suggestions. When I try to ungroup the org chart I get a warning saying "Shape protection and/or layer properties prevent proper execution of this command." Bizarro. Out of curiosity (mine) you might try this: Select the org chart, choose Edit, Copy to copy it to the clipboard, then choose Edit, Paste Special and see if there's a metafile or Office Drawing Object option. Try those and then see if it'll ungroup. I think I saw something somewhere that said that organization charts in Visio had some special properties; maybe that's why they can't be ungrouped. Placing transparent borderless shapes on top of the chart and linking from them works great though. Appreciate the help. Gregg "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Gregg wrote: Greetings. I'm building a powerpoint presentation to explain the functions of various parts of a new organization. I drew the organization chart in Visio and then copied and pasted (either linked or embedded) into an early chart in the ppt presentation. What I'd like to do is to be able to click on any one of the organization boxes on the org chart and then hyperlink to a specific slide that describes that part of the organization. Then I can use an Action button to come back to the org chart slide. Can I do that somehow? I only seem to be able to assign a single hyperlink to the entire org chart; its being treated as a single object. Its not unlike using an image map on an html page. Thanks You can ungroup the chart and then treat each of its shapes as an individual object (ie, assign hyperlinks to them individually) or you can draw rectangles or other shapes atop the area of the chart where you want the link to be and assign the link to the rectangle. Depending on where you'll play this back, you may be able to then give the rectangles no line/no fill to make them invisible, or you may have to assign them a fill and make it almost totally transparent. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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Interesting approach. When I paste it special as a Visio drawing object and
try to ungroup it, that's when I get the warn about shape protection. If I paste it as a Windows Metafile and try to ungroup that I get a message saying that what I'm trying to ungroup is a picture AND asking if I'd like to convert it to a drawing object. If I say yes to that then it ungroups and I can attach hyperlinks to any object. I'll be you'd never find that in the Help files! Gregg "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Gregg wrote: Thanks Steve. I tried both of your suggestions. When I try to ungroup the org chart I get a warning saying "Shape protection and/or layer properties prevent proper execution of this command." Bizarro. Out of curiosity (mine) you might try this: Select the org chart, choose Edit, Copy to copy it to the clipboard, then choose Edit, Paste Special and see if there's a metafile or Office Drawing Object option. Try those and then see if it'll ungroup. I think I saw something somewhere that said that organization charts in Visio had some special properties; maybe that's why they can't be ungrouped. Placing transparent borderless shapes on top of the chart and linking from them works great though. Appreciate the help. Gregg "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Gregg wrote: Greetings. I'm building a powerpoint presentation to explain the functions of various parts of a new organization. I drew the organization chart in Visio and then copied and pasted (either linked or embedded) into an early chart in the ppt presentation. What I'd like to do is to be able to click on any one of the organization boxes on the org chart and then hyperlink to a specific slide that describes that part of the organization. Then I can use an Action button to come back to the org chart slide. Can I do that somehow? I only seem to be able to assign a single hyperlink to the entire org chart; its being treated as a single object. Its not unlike using an image map on an html page. Thanks You can ungroup the chart and then treat each of its shapes as an individual object (ie, assign hyperlinks to them individually) or you can draw rectangles or other shapes atop the area of the chart where you want the link to be and assign the link to the rectangle. Depending on where you'll play this back, you may be able to then give the rectangles no line/no fill to make them invisible, or you may have to assign them a fill and make it almost totally transparent. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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If you could find things like that in the help files, there would be no
need for this group. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ "=?Utf-8?B?R3JlZ2c=?=" wrote in : Interesting approach. When I paste it special as a Visio drawing object and try to ungroup it, that's when I get the warn about shape protection. If I paste it as a Windows Metafile and try to ungroup that I get a message saying that what I'm trying to ungroup is a picture AND asking if I'd like to convert it to a drawing object. If I say yes to that then it ungroups and I can attach hyperlinks to any object. I'll be you'd never find that in the Help files! Gregg |
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In article , Gregg wrote:
Interesting approach. When I paste it special as a Visio drawing object and try to ungroup it, that's when I get the warn about shape protection. If I paste it as a Windows Metafile and try to ungroup that I get a message saying that what I'm trying to ungroup is a picture AND asking if I'd like to convert it to a drawing object. If I say yes to that then it ungroups and I can attach hyperlinks to any object. I'll be you'd never find that in the Help files! That's why we love our newsgroups, yes indeed. g |
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