Rashid Mahmood asked:
QUESTION: "Hi Sir,
I have read some of your articles and these are very informative, in fact in my view MasterView is the best site for the problems related to PowerPoint.
I consider myself an advanced user of PowerPoint and I use Windows XP.
I am facing some problem relating to saving the file as a web page, I will be really thankful if u can help me.
Here I try to explain my problem. Let's suppose I have two Power Point files:
File A
File B
Both Files have 2 slides each.
Now I give a link from slide No1 of File A to slide No 2 of File B and vice versa. I save Both Files as FileA.ppt and File B.ppt hyperlinks work well in Power Point slide show. After that I transferred it into html by saving both files as a web page, so now I have FileA.html and File B.html.
Now when I open the html version of File A in Internet Explorer (i.e. FileA.html) and click the hyperlink (that should take me to the slide No 2 of File B ) it opens a power point File B i.e. FileB.ppt and not FileB.html.
So, as it appears to me, PowerPoint doesn't transfer the hyperlinks to the appropriate html file while transferring into html.
Is it possible that when I save a PowerPoint file as a Web page PowerPoint transfers all the hyperlinks to the correct html version of the other file and not to a PowerPoint file?
I want that when I open FileA.html and click the hyperlink it takes me to the slide 2 of FileB.html and vice versa!
I have tried to explain my problem. I am sure that there must be some solution of this problem, I am trying but couldn't find one, so if you can help, I will be really thankful to you."
Regards Rashid Mahmood
ANSWER: Dear Rashid,
here is IKONOS New Media Webmaster Mihai Bocsaru that provides you with a very clear and detailed answer. Mihai says:
"Rashid, let me kindly provide you a solution for solving the problem you have encountered.
Whenever you choose to "Save as Web page" a PowerPoint Presentation you will obtain the following output files.
- an HTML file called: "name.htm"
- a folder called: "name_files"
Among other elements stored on the above-mentioned folder you can find one Web page associated to each PowerPoint Presentation slide.
Analyzing your question, it's evident that you have to change the link from the first PowerPoint document, slide 1 (one). At this moment the link points to the PowerPoint (.PPT) files, and you have to make it pointing to the HTML (.HTM) output.
For doing this you have to edit the file named "slide0001.htm" which is stored inside the folder "FileA_files" using NotePad or another related product as UltraEdit.
All you have to do is to replace the second PowerPoint document file name text instance with its associated HTML output. In other words you have to find "FileB.ppt" and replace it with "FileB.htm"."
Luigi Canali De Rossi
