Hyperlinks change "/" to "\" when saved.
I have a presentation that includes a lot of screen shots and for clarity, I want to have a link to the screen shot in actual size. I put all the images in a folder called "images" and on the pages, there are hyperlinks to the individual images. For example:
images/one.jpg
When testing, this was working perfectly - after being published, if the link was clicked, the image opened in a new window. After putting links to 140 images, saving the PPT and then publishing, the links stopped working. Here is what I found - after saving the file, the forward slash in the hyperlink has become a backwards slash. Here is a screen shot after saving the file and checking the hyperlink:
Notice the forward slash has changed to a backwards slash. All I did was save the file - after clicking the "OK" button on the hyperlink window.
I am guessing this has something to do about having links in folders versus at the root level.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jerry
3 Replies
I found the answer, and there was another post that had this same issue.
It has something to do with the newer version of PPT - I did just update to 2010 several months ago and I must of made the first slides with the older version.
The workaround is to save the file as PPT, not PPTX. At least I have the answer, but now have another 140 "\"that I have to change to "/"...again!
Jerry
Hi Jerry -- that's a problem with PowerPoint.
See here:
http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/6890.aspx
Hope that helps!
Dave,
Thanks for your fast respons! Yes, I just discovered this solution a few moments ago. After a few years of not updating to a newer version of Office, I finally had to a few months ago and this has been my second big problem with it. I also found that a number of images I had saved were very skewed when published. Had to open them and then save them as pngs and then reinsert them.
Thanks again.
Jerry