Hyperlinks in PowerPoint viewer

[TonyT]

Hi Guys,
I'm in need of help. I created a large CD project for a client using
PowerPoint presentations as the Index for the CD. It seems to work fine in
PowerPoint but is having problems in Viewer. Here is the clients note:

"As per telcon. NIMS 3.0 states requires PowerPoint '97 or later.

However testing shows works OK under PowerPoint 2003 (full system) but not
under PowerPoint Viewer 2003. Basically none of the icons in the PPS files
are clickable under the latter nor can F5 be pressed as states on screen.
This is both under an Admin and Limited User account so not a security
problem.

Whilst we may be able to install PowerPoint Viewer 2007, which itself will
require internal testing to verify OK in our environment, I don't want to go
to that effort if there still are problems. Can you ask your IT people to
investigate and advise. It may well be the manual is incorrect of course.

Ideally I need an answer by next Tuesday to meet our quarterly deadlines."

I created the file in PowerPoint 2003. Anyone else have this problem?

THANKS!

 

[TonyT]

Hi Steve,

Saw a talk you gace at PowerPoint Live 2003 so I know your expertise.

I created a ppt in PowerPoint 2003 - Windows XP - it links to other ppt
"modules"
these modules mainly consist of a few pages with 40 to 50 boxes which are
hyperlinked to PDF files.

Every time I test it worke fine. I also tested the viewer but not on a
machine without PowerPoint. So my thinking is that there is a hyperlinking
issue with the viewer. My customer can't get it to work.

Also, they mentioned F5 because I noticed in Vista the ppt didn't open in
show but in editor mode. Confusing? Any known hyperlink issues with PPT
viewer?

Thanks,

 

[TonyT]

Found this at Microsoft Web site:

Overview
PowerPoint Viewer 2003 ....

The following Microsoft PowerPoint features are not supported by this viewer:
Information Rights Management (IRM) presentations.
Running macros, programs, or ---opening linked--- or embedded objects.

My hyphens added for emphasis.

This is hugh as I assumed it did. Of course, my bad. Guess I need to redo
the indices as PDF files with links. Any thoughts would be apreciated.