powerpoint -hyperlinks changing the desination when the file is on the server

[boe]

Hello,

I have some powerpoint sales presentations with pictures that have
hyperlinks - if I paste the link from our local mapped driver s: - it
changes them to the file server path instead - e.g.

g:\Portfolio\Online\coh\RichMedia\demo.html



Will change to

\\servername\Graphics\Portfolio\Online\coh\RichMedia\demo.html



So I paste

g:\Portfolio\Online\coh\RichMedia\demo.html into the hyperlink in ppt but
when I go back to edit it, it now shows
\\servername\Graphics\Portfolio\Online\coh\RichMedia\demo.html



This wouldn't be so bad if everything worked OK but for whatever reason only
some of the web page shows properly when you go to

\\servername\Graphics\Portfolio\Online\coh\RichMedia\demo.html - it doesn't
load up some of the media content - although some of the swf stuff works
fine.



I tried just copying everything in the path of demo.html up to my web site
and for whatever reason - it runs fine - so I thought it might be some hard
coding of the path but since it worked when I moved it to a completely
different location and it worked (my web server is not the company's web
server) I'm pretty sure it isn't a hard coded path issue in the code.





So my goal would be for powerpoint to use the hyperlink I put in - not a
converted one that it prefers.





Thanks

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

You can use this workaround -- browse to the file on your server that you
want to hyperlink to, right-click+drag it to the same folder as your
presentation, and opt to create a shortcut to the file.

Then hyperlink to this shortcut from your presentation.

 

[boe]

Thanks - unfortunately we have A LOT of presentations with a lot of changes
happening by the developers so ideally all the files would remain on the
server.

 

[Echo S]

You might check into FixLinks Pro.
http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/index.html