Open Link to Ouside URL in New Window

[Becca]

I have a link in a PowerPoint presentation to an outside
URL. When I click it, it opens in the same window. I
would like this link to open to a new window. Is there
any way to do this? I'm using PowerPopint 2000. Thanks.

Becca

 

[Becca]

I know that my previous posts were answered but I cannot
see them from my machine so if someone could repost the
answer I would very much appreicate it. Thank you!
Becca

 

[Sonia]

There appears to have been a 12 hour period yesterday morning when no posts
reached the web interface. There are many other reasons that the web
interface is inferior. If you can access the newsgroup directly, you'll be
much happier. The information below will help you.
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Here is the response from Steve Rindsberg:

"This would be in HTML made from PowerPoint?

I don't think there's any way to control this short of manually editing the
"outside" links to look more like:

<a href="http://www.somesite.com/filename.htm" target="_new">Click me to see
a new window</a>

With luck, your web browser or newsreader won't totally mess that up.

Or use our commercial addin, PPT2HTML, which allows you to open all outside
links in a single external window or in a new window for each link. Demo at
http://www.rdpslides.com/ppt2html/"
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You'll find the newsgroup at:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.powerpoint

A newsreader like the one in Outlook Express and Netscape will allow you to
read, participate and store your postings.

You can learn more at:

PowerPoint Newsgroup
http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppnewsgroup.html

 

[Sonia]

It's in the folder that was created when you saved the presentation to HTML.
As I recall, if your presentation is named Main.ppt, PowerPoint creates a
file named Main.htm and a folder named Main_files.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have no problem manually editing the links but I don't

know how to get to the source code through Powerpoint.
Any direction on how I can actually see the html behind
the front end link in the presentation...

You don't (can't, as far as I know) edit the source code in PowerPoint.
You'd have to create HTML from PPT then edit that.
Very weird HTML. Very tedious editing process. Must be repeated each time
you make new HTML.

A good search and replace utility program might make that a lot easier,
something that could work from a script and batch process a lot of files at
one whack.

If you know that your link is

http://www.rdpslides.com/ppt2html/ for example, you might be able to
accomplish what you need by replacing

"http://www.rdpslides.com/ppt2html/" target="_parent"
with the same string, but change _parent to _new