If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
hyperlinks work once, then they do not a second time
Hello:
I have a presentation that has a few problems. I have a menu that has several items listed. Each item when you click on it opens a PDF file. Here are my problems, which I have no clue how to fix, although I have spent the good part of two days trying to figure it out. #1: Some of the pdf files open in adobe in front of the powerpoint screen. This is what I want. When I close out Adobe, and go to anther pdf link, it will open BEHIND the powerpoint screen. Is there a setting that I am missing that will open any PDF's in front of the powerpoint presentation all the time? It is annoying. #2. After I open up a pdf link, read it, close out Adobe, and go back to the presentation menu, that link no longer works. If I do click on it, it goes to a black screen that says "end of slide show". How can I keep these links active all the time so when a person clicks on them once, they can go back and click on them again without having to relead the entire powerpoint presentation viewer and presentation again? I am using Microsoft 2003 by the way. Any help would be appreciated. JT |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
#1: Some of the pdf files open in adobe in front of the powerpoint screen. This is what I want. When I close out Adobe, and go to anther pdf link, it will open BEHIND the powerpoint screen. Is there a setting that I am missing that will open any PDF's in front of the powerpoint presentation all the time? It is annoying. #2. After I open up a pdf link, read it, close out Adobe, and go back to the presentation menu, that link no longer works. If I do click on it, it goes to a black screen that says "end of slide show". How can I keep these links active all the time so when a person clicks on them once, they can go back and click on them again without having to relead the entire powerpoint presentation viewer and presentation again? I am using Microsoft 2003 by the way. Adobe is a company. They have a couple of different products that might wake up when you link to PDFs, and each of the products comes in several versions. They thrive on confusion it seems. We don't, so let us know whether you're using Acrobat (full, Professional or Standard) or the free Reader, and which version. I'll assume that Microsoft 2003 means PowerPoint 2003; let me know if that's not right, 'kay? Next, how did you create the link? There are a couple ways of doing this and it may matter which you used. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Thanks for the response.
I am using PPT2003. The pdfs were created by Acrobat Standard software. However, (if it matters) the computer I am burning my presentations on, has acrobat professional on it. The pdfs were not created with the acrobat professional however. The cd's are being packaged for viewing, so it automatically burns the powerpoint viewer and runs on its own....well....kind of.....if I can get these links working. My links are all text that might say "Souvenirs". I would right click on the text box and hit the hyperlink option and hyperlink to the pdf that is stored on my computer hard drive. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: #1: Some of the pdf files open in adobe in front of the powerpoint screen. This is what I want. When I close out Adobe, and go to anther pdf link, it will open BEHIND the powerpoint screen. Is there a setting that I am missing that will open any PDF's in front of the powerpoint presentation all the time? It is annoying. #2. After I open up a pdf link, read it, close out Adobe, and go back to the presentation menu, that link no longer works. If I do click on it, it goes to a black screen that says "end of slide show". How can I keep these links active all the time so when a person clicks on them once, they can go back and click on them again without having to relead the entire powerpoint presentation viewer and presentation again? I am using Microsoft 2003 by the way. Adobe is a company. They have a couple of different products that might wake up when you link to PDFs, and each of the products comes in several versions. They thrive on confusion it seems. We don't, so let us know whether you're using Acrobat (full, Professional or Standard) or the free Reader, and which version. I'll assume that Microsoft 2003 means PowerPoint 2003; let me know if that's not right, 'kay? Next, how did you create the link? There are a couple ways of doing this and it may matter which you used. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
In article , Jeff T wrote:
Thanks for the response. No problem. On the computer where you're testing this, what pops up when you click a PDF link? Reader or Acrobat? And which version? If it's version 7, that might well be the problem. It seems to be flakey in almost exactly the way you've described from what I've read on other newsgroups/forums. Haven't installed it myself for pretty much that reason. I'm not seeing this behavior on a Win2000 box with Acrobat Professional 6 and PPT2003 I am using PPT2003. The pdfs were created by Acrobat Standard software. However, (if it matters) the computer I am burning my presentations on, has acrobat professional on it. The pdfs were not created with the acrobat professional however. The cd's are being packaged for viewing, so it automatically burns the powerpoint viewer and runs on its own....well....kind of.....if I can get these links working. My links are all text that might say "Souvenirs". I would right click on the text box and hit the hyperlink option and hyperlink to the pdf that is stored on my computer hard drive. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: #1: Some of the pdf files open in adobe in front of the powerpoint screen. This is what I want. When I close out Adobe, and go to anther pdf link, it will open BEHIND the powerpoint screen. Is there a setting that I am missing that will open any PDF's in front of the powerpoint presentation all the time? It is annoying. #2. After I open up a pdf link, read it, close out Adobe, and go back to the presentation menu, that link no longer works. If I do click on it, it goes to a black screen that says "end of slide show". How can I keep these links active all the time so when a person clicks on them once, they can go back and click on them again without having to relead the entire powerpoint presentation viewer and presentation again? I am using Microsoft 2003 by the way. Adobe is a company. They have a couple of different products that might wake up when you link to PDFs, and each of the products comes in several versions. They thrive on confusion it seems. We don't, so let us know whether you're using Acrobat (full, Professional or Standard) or the free Reader, and which version. I'll assume that Microsoft 2003 means PowerPoint 2003; let me know if that's not right, 'kay? Next, how did you create the link? There are a couple ways of doing this and it may matter which you used. ----------------------------------------- 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 ================================================ |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Visio Viewer 2003 - Hyperlinks do not work | JezP | Visio | 0 | November 26th, 2004 10:33 AM |
Overlapping time in Access | RobertMelton,MOUS | Running & Setting Up Queries | 2 | September 11th, 2004 03:06 AM |
Hyperlinks sporadically work in Outlook 2003 | Dennis Langlois | General Discussion | 0 | June 15th, 2004 06:31 PM |
Outlook 2003 Terminal Server Time Zone issue | Robert Strom | Calendar | 2 | May 26th, 2004 10:50 PM |