Hyperlinks to attachments - slashes defaulting to backward slashes

Hi Xanthe and welcome to Heroes,

Unfortunately, there is a bug in PowerPoint that is causing your issue.  However, there are a few workarounds that you can try:

First, you can use a URL shortener like tinyurl.com to create a relative hyperlink per this post:

http://www.articulate.com/forums/72070-post2.html

Another solution that I've heard about is saving the presentation as a PPT file instead of PPTX file.

I've also heard that this solution works as well:

http://www.articulate.com/forums/84346-post4.html

Hi Xanthe

I posted a macro that will fix these links over here http://community.articulate.com/members/PhilMayor/default.aspx?Filter=All&PageIndex=5 sorry not at my machine so cannot post it again

Phil

oops, sorry Brian, never read your last link

Phil

Thanks Guys! We'll check it out.

Xanthe

Hi Guys,

This macros looked good... but I just want to add this link from your website (incase others pull this post)

http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=907

When publishing to an LMS with a course with a hyperlink to a pdf, we've learnt that one has to copy the pdf to the player folder, after publishing - oh the joys of learning!

This probably takes out the need for the macros as one is just required to paste the name of the file, not browse to the file when hyperlinking. - we're still tetsing. I should have indicted that we are publishing  to an LMS.

Thank you!

Xanthe