Hyperlinks to another slide not working

Hey Jimmy, welcome to Heroes!

Thank you Peter,

It does seem odd as it one minute appeared to work in preview the next it didn't and another one I published fully did seem to work although intermittently.

Could there be an issue where I created the initial presentation in Powerpoint 2007 but published through Articulate using Powerpoint 2010? I wonder if that has somehow effected the links?

I am going to try and publish to a CD to see if this works.

Thanks

Hi Jimmy,

Just curious- what are you hyperlinking to (another slide, PDF, web page)?

Jimmy, are you using transparent shapes or shapes with no fill and no stroke, as far as Studio is concerned these are two different things and often ignores shapes with no fill or stroke, it is best to add a colour and set it to 100% transparent, even then these can sometimes not work, if you use 99% transparency this will often fix it

Hi,

I am hyperlinking to other slides with in the same presentation for navigation purposes rather than the Articulate player controls.

I am using 100% transparent shapes for the links so shouldn't be a problem. I even went as far as removing them all and re-adding them but with no luck.

I am pretty sure my collegue (who is on leave) use's them the same way and has no issues.

I will try at 99% transparancy to see if they resolves.

Thanks

This can be a real pain especially if its a large presentation (having to keep publishing to test) 99% is a workaround I found when I had one that persistently failed to "appear" hope it works, Phil

Hi Jimmy - both 100% and No Fill options should work with your hyperlinks. You could try the no fill option to see if anything changes.

Are you using any smart art by chance?

Hi Jimmy - what are the hyperlinked shapes being placed over? Images or grouped shapes etc? When I moved to PowerPoint 2010 I found that hyperlinked shapes wouldn't always work over grouped shapes, so as a work around I would cut and paste the shapes as an image, then put the hyperlinked shape over the top. Also this may be a silly suggestion but make sure the hyperlink isn't to a hidden slide, I've had that before when the hyperlink went nowhere.

The hyperlinks are over various items, some images, some shapes, some groups of items.

I just published a different course which was made in the same way and worked with out issue. Very odd!

I did quickly try 99% transaparancy and that did appear to work so will go back and change them all to 99% and fingers crossed all will work well.

Thanking all for their help!

Jimmy,

I just came across a client who was also losing her hyperlinks when she published her courses. She had put images on the slide background as well as had grouped images in the slide master. On those slides with in which she used the slide layout (slide master) that had the group image she lost her hyperlinks.

Hope this is helpful.

Ah that is interesting as every one of my slides uses an image set as the background and the one that did work only had a gradient fill for the background. I have also uses some grouped images on my master slides which may cause problems.

I will have a look into that to see if it resolves.

Thanks!

Well I used 99% transparent shapes as hyperlinks and these have now published with out issue. I can't quite put my finger on why I have this problem as one of my presentations has images set as backgrounds but another does not and they both wouldnt work with the hyperlinks.

Either way I will stick to 99% transparent shapes from now on to make sure!

Sounds good, Jimmy. Thanks for the update!

If SOME links to other slides work, but not others, this may be helpful to you.

While helping a colleague with a PowerPoint presentation, we discovered an issue with hyperlinks to other slides. All of the hyperlinks to other slides in her presentation worked fine, except for two.

The problem appeared to be commas in the name of the slide.

The slides she was linking to were named (automatically by PowerPoint) using the first text on the slide. Normally that's fine if the slide has a header but these two slides did not, so the name of the slide was the first sentence on the slide (and that first sentence had commas). She removed the commas from the sentence (which removed it from the slide name) and the links worked.

So a better solution would be to put a header in those slides (even if you make the text transparent) instead of having PowerPoint use the first sentence as a slide name.

Chuck

Thanks for this - I had the very same issue and resolved it by removing the commas in the title as you suggested.