Update HYPERLINKS to be Relative??????

[gmark]

I have a GUI front-end I did in Powerpoint with hyperlinks to various
sourcefiles in the system.

If I move this entire directory, I have to update all the hyperlinks.

Or do I? Is there a way to make them all relative, just as you can in
HTML?

(Also -- when I get to the sourcefile, it displays fine in Safari, but
it's all run together in FireFox. Any suggestions?)

TIA!

[Steve Rindsberg]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:38:47 -0500, gmark <gma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a GUI front-end I did in Powerpoint with hyperlinks to various
> sourcefiles in the system.
>
> If I move this entire directory, I have to update all the hyperlinks.
>
> Or do I? Is there a way to make them all relative, just as you can in
> HTML?

Links to most external files can be made relative, but only
"programatically" ... via VBA or some other programming language.

OLE links are always absolute (ie, linked spreadsheets and such).

> (Also -- when I get to the sourcefile, it displays fine in Safari, but
> it's all run together in FireFox. Any suggestions?)

What sourcefile do you mean exactly? It's not clear from your question.

BTW, microsoft.public.powerpoint is the Windows PPT newsgroup.
Since you mention Safari, you might want to post in
microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint

Ah. And if you're on Mac and using PPT 2008, VBA isn't available. You
either need to drop back one version in the past or punt forward one in
the future for that.

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