Re: Hyperlinks 'Not Valid' In Viewer '97

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From: Sonia (scds_at_nowherebuthere.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:52:02 -0800

Were all of your files in a single folder with the presentation file *BEFORE*
you inserted the links? How did you create the links?

The other thing that I can think of is that the PowerPoint 97 Viewer doesn't
much like links to PDF and Word documents unless the associated reader (Acrobat
& Word) files are on the CD too. 

-- 
Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
"M" <M@M.com> wrote in message news:OqxfApt5EHA.2592@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> We put together a presentation that uses the PowerPoint 2003 viewer to review 
> a variety of info - image files, Microsoft Word docs, PDF files - and so on. 
> Unfortunately, when the 'non-slide' items are clicked, Microsoft Office rears 
> it's ugly head and warns that "Some files can contain viruses..."  Duh!  The 
> client says that is unacceptably stupid, and I couldn't agree more.
>
> There is no workaround when using the 2003 Viewer, so I've reverted to using 
> Viewer 97 (which still allows the /V switch).
>
> If I launch ppview32.exe, then select the ortho.ppt show, all the links work 
> perfectly (and, yes, they are all in the same directory).  But I'd like to 
> elminiate the extra (clunky) step of selecting the ortho.ppt file, since 
> that's the only PowerPoint choice.  If the .bat file reads
>    @ppview32.exe /V ortho.ppt
> it launches straight into the presentation, but the links to the .docs and 
> .pdfs results in a "The address of this site is not valid" error.
>
> I get the same error when running a CD in autorun mode, using the 
> open=ppview32.exe /V /S "playlist.lst" command line (where the only entry in 
> 'playlist.lst' is 'ortho.ppt').
>
> Help!
>
> Michael
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