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Hi folks. Issue with action settings on buttons hyperlinked to other slides.
I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall.
I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA |
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Hi Mike,
I've had the best luck when the slides have titles identified by one of the standard layouts. I get pretty consistent reliable links when the links can go to a titled slide as opposed to slide 1, etc. Glenna "Mike M." wrote: I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA |
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Hi, Mike,
You probably know by now that I'm not a coder (okay, well, maybe you don't -- but I just told you so now you do! Do I sound enough like Steve yet? g) Anyway, what I've found when manually moving/cutting/pasting slides with links is that if I move/cut/paste them all together, I have better luck at keeping the links intact. I guess that moving the *group* of slides around means that the 0,Slide0 thing doesn't show up because I haven't deleted anything the link is linking to. Does that make sense at all? So I'm wondering if there's any way to append the slides as a group into your existing presentation. Just a thought until the big guns get here. :-) -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com "Mike M." wrote in message ... I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA |
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Hmm. Off top of head, would it be possible to create dummy slides so that the
slides linked to ARE there, then as you paste in each real slide, delete the dummy? In article , Mike M. wrote: I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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Does that make sense at all?
So I'm wondering if there's any way to append the slides as a group into your existing presentation. Lots. Might make sense to insert the whole other presentation and then delete the unwanted slides. Just a thought until the big guns get here. :-) -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com "Mike M." wrote in message ... I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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Thanks for the suggestion Glenna. Unfortunately "other" people (read
customers) build the presentations or receive them from advertisers so I don't have any influence over how they will do their linking. If necessary I can place constraints on what they do but then I have mad customers. "PPTMagician" wrote in message ... Hi Mike, I've had the best luck when the slides have titles identified by one of the standard layouts. I get pretty consistent reliable links when the links can go to a titled slide as opposed to slide 1, etc. Glenna "Mike M." wrote: I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA |
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You are approaching Steve speak pretty close. A few more trips down VBA
lane and you will have it down pat. I tried that using two methods; Insert slides from file , insert all slides and I selected all the slides from pres1 and then pasted into empty pres2. Same results. I am going to persue what Steve suggested on another reply about dummy slides. Anything with the word dummy in it attracts my attention. Thanks for the suggestion and keep up the mumbly talk! "Echo S" wrote in message ... Hi, Mike, You probably know by now that I'm not a coder (okay, well, maybe you don't -- but I just told you so now you do! Do I sound enough like Steve yet? g) Anyway, what I've found when manually moving/cutting/pasting slides with links is that if I move/cut/paste them all together, I have better luck at keeping the links intact. I guess that moving the *group* of slides around means that the 0,Slide0 thing doesn't show up because I haven't deleted anything the link is linking to. Does that make sense at all? So I'm wondering if there's any way to append the slides as a group into your existing presentation. Just a thought until the big guns get here. :-) -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com "Mike M." wrote in message ... I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA |
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I did and it gave the same results. :-(
Thanks Big Gun. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message ... Does that make sense at all? So I'm wondering if there's any way to append the slides as a group into your existing presentation. Lots. Might make sense to insert the whole other presentation and then delete the unwanted slides. Just a thought until the big guns get here. :-) -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com "Mike M." wrote in message ... I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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I am immediately attracted to this possible solution because of the word
dummy. That word alone makes me feel comfortable that I may have a chance to comprehend/accomplish a solution. It may be easier than the other route. What I was thinking was going through each shape, determining if it had a hyperlink, saving the hyperlink to a tag on the shape, copy all slides, go through the new pres and set the hyperlink back for all tagged shapes. BUT, I like the dummy better! Thanks for the food for thought (hee, hee, he said food!). "Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message ... Hmm. Off top of head, would it be possible to create dummy slides so that the slides linked to ARE there, then as you paste in each real slide, delete the dummy? In article , Mike M. wrote: I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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In article , Mike M. wrote:
I did and it gave the same results. :-( Nutz. Might have to build a list of all the slide to slide links and use that to transfer the info to the new presentation. Blechh. Thanks Big Gun. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message ... Does that make sense at all? So I'm wondering if there's any way to append the slides as a group into your existing presentation. Lots. Might make sense to insert the whole other presentation and then delete the unwanted slides. Just a thought until the big guns get here. :-) -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com "Mike M." wrote in message ... I am using PowerPoint 2002. I am of course bumping my head against a wall. I use automation (C++) to build presentations. Sometimes I use existing presentations and append them to slides I create programatically. In my latest futile efforts, the existing presentation is one with navigation buttons (Action Buttons) on each slide to provide a controlled stroll through the presentation. My specific test show has 7 slides. Slide 1 has 3 buttons on it as such; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 4, button 3 links to slide 7. Each of those has buttons for next, previous and home (first slide). Well, after my program copies the slides to the new presentation the buttons on slide 1 go like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 2, button 2 links to slide 3 and button 3 links to slide 4. The Next, previous and first slide are fine. Hmm, so I did this manually in PPT and it did the same thing. It is because when I paste the first slide the slides to be linked to don't exist so PPT sets the link to Side 0 (which there never is). It then seems to try to outsmart me when I paste the remaining slides (and it does). I also tried Insert Slides from File (Insert All) but the same thing happened. Ha! I won't let it win. I then inserted each slide in reverse order! The buttons ended up like this; Button 1 hyperlinks to slide 6, button 2 links to slide 5, button 3 links to slide 4. PPT wins. I am thinking I'll have to set tags, remember links, paste slides and rebuild them programatically after all slides are copied but I would really like to avoid that. I do actually have better things to do. Anyone know of a sneaky little trick so I can get PPT to leave the links as they were whilst I copy and paste slides? TIA ----------------------------------------- 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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