Followed Hyperlinks don't change color PPT 2007

[Lynne M Bailey]

On another MS page a user wrote: "I'm using a Jeopardy game PowerPoint
template in my class to review concepts. The hyperlinks work but they don't
change color once they have been followed. I've tried several different
techniques but can't get the followed link to change color unless I exit the
SlideShow view and go back into Normal view.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?"

I created this Jeopardy game [www.lynnembailey.com/ppt.com] back in 1998
actually, and I am investigating this problem. It's never been an issue in
Office 2000, or 2003. Coincidently I got a new computer with a limited trial
version and I tested it. Indeed the links do not change colors at all in show
mode, but revert to the changed colors in edit (normal) mode. I created a new
slide and a couple of new hyperlinks (both text and graphic box) and these
only change colors if they've been clicked twice!

This is a serious glitch and it's not fixed in Service Pack 1 either. What I
did discover however, is that it plays perfectly in PowerPoint 2007 Viewer.

 

[Rick Altman]

I remember something like this also back when I relied on text hyperlinks
for trivia contests (which we use in a high-profile way at the conference
each year). Once I abandoned the whole idea of using hyperlinks, my life was
made so much easier.

Instead of text-based hyperlinks, we stack two squares atop each other for
each cell of the game board. The one in front, colored red, contains the
hyperlink to its particular question slide. Its appearance on the board is
on a trigger set to the blue square behind it. Clicking on the blue square
triggers the appearance of the red square and clicking the red square sends
you off to the question.

While that plumbing is not exactly a piece of cake, driving the game is very
simple: blue squares represent cells that have not yet been chosen; red
squares are cells that have.



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Rick Altman
PowerPoint Live
Oct 11-14, 2009 | Atlanta GA
http://www.betterpresenting.com






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[John Wilson]

As well as what Rick said see if this helps
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/Triggers3.html
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john ATSIGN PPTAlchemy.co.uk
Custom vba coding and PPT Makeovers
Free PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html

 

[Echo S]

In addition to what Rick and John said...

....it's a bug in PPT 2007. I've no idea what causes it, but I do know it's
been reported to Microsoft.

If there are any animated GIFs in the presentation, you might try removing
them and see if the situation resolves.