Linking different files in a PowerPoint presentation that needs to be converted to a Web format, can easily challenge your patience, if you are not an HTML-savvy user.
The issue that Rashid encountered is a popular one, but many non-technical people get very discouraged when they need to go and edit code to make things work. Unfortunately sometimes this is the only way out and here is how we solved to frustrating hyperlinking problem.
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!
