ID: Q167902
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When you run a slide show (the main presentation) that contains a hyperlink to another presentation, the slide show may stop after the hyperlinked presentation ends.
Term Definition
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Main Presentation The presentation you run to start your
show. This presentation contains one or
more slides that hyperlink to other
presentations.
HyperLinked Presentation Refers to the destination of a hyperlink;
the slide show that started when you
clicked a hyperlink in the main
presentation.
This problem occurs when the presentation you hyperlinked to ends if the main presentation does not contain any unsaved information. If the main presentation has not been saved then, when the presentation you hyperlinked to ends, PowerPoint returns you to the main presentation allowing you to save any changes you made to the presentation. If your main presentation has been saved, PowerPoint does not need to return to the main presentation and ends the show.
This problem has been corrected in PowerPoint 97 SR-1 (Service Release 1). You can correct this problem by downloading and installing the Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 Patch.
For additional information about SR-1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q172475
TITLE : OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-1
To end the slide show for the hyperlinked presentation and return to the last slide viewed in the main presentation, use these steps:
1. Right-click a slide in the hyperlinked presentation.
2. Point to Go and then click Previously Viewed.
When you run a presentation in browse mode, PowerPoint treats the slide show as a single stream of slides. This behavior is similar to a Web Browser where you use Back and Forward buttons to traverse the web pages. So, if you hyperlink to another presentation while using browse mode, you can return to the main presentation by clicking the Back button. To set up the main presentation to run in browse mode, use these steps:
1. On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.
2. Under Show, click "Browsed by an individual (window)" and click OK.
3. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show.
4. Click a hyperlink to go to the second presentation.
5 Return to the main presentation, using one of the following
methods:
- Use the Back button to return to the main presentation.
-or-
- Right-click a slide within the hyperlinked presentation and click
End Show on the menu that appears.
-or-
- Press the ESC key.
show, click OK.
1. In the main presentation, go to the slide from which you want to
branch to the next presentation.
2. On the Insert menu, click Object.
3. In the Insert Object dialog box, click Create From File.
4. Click Browse.
5. Select the presentation you want to branch to, and click OK.
6. To embed the presentation, click to clear the Link check box. To
link the presentation, click to select the Link check box.
7. Click OK.
8. Right-click the presentation object and then click Action
Settings.
9. Click either the Mouse Click or the Mouse Over tab.
drop-down list.
When you end the branched show, PowerPoint returns you to the main presentation.
Make changes to the main presentation before you click a hyperlink to another presentation. (Do not save the changes before you click the hyperlink.) When the hyperlinked presentation ends, PowerPoint will return you to the main presentation. Use these steps to "dirty" the presentation:
1. Open the main presentation.
2. Position the insertion point in any text box on one of the
slides and then press the SPACEBAR.
When you end the hyperlinked show, PowerPoint returns you to the main presentation.
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Write a macro that makes the presentation "dirty." This macro makes a change in the presentation automatically when you hyperlink to another presentation.
1. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic
Editor.
3. In the Code window, type the following code:
Sub DirtySlide ()
ActivePresentation.Saved = False
ActivePresentation.FollowHyperLink "name.ppt"
End Sub
5. Right-click the hyperlink and click Action Settings.
6. In the Action Settings dialog box, click Run Macro and then click
the DirtySlide macro in the Run Macro drop-down list.
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Version : windows:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprbLast Reviewed: May 19, 1999