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PPT97: Object Does Not Act as Hyperlink in Slide View

Article ID: 157163

Article Last Modified on 11/9/2000

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q157163

SYMPTOMS

If you apply a hyperlink to text or an object on a PowerPoint slide, you cannot activate the hyperlink in Slide view by clicking or double- clicking it.

NOTE: The path or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) appears correctly if you right-click the object, point to Hyperlink, and then click Edit Hyperlink.

CAUSE

You can activate a hyperlink in a PowerPoint presentation only by clicking it when you view the presentation as a Slide Show.

If you click a drawing object in Slide view, you select the object. If you double-click a drawing object while in Slide view, the Format Object dialog box is supposed to appear. This behavior does not change simply because the object has a hyperlink.

RESOLUTION

If you click View Show on the Slide Show menu, the mouse pointer changes to a hand pointer when you move it over the object or text that has the hyperlink. If you click while you see the hand, the hyperlink activates.

To verify that a hyperlink works without viewing the presentation as a Slide Show, follow these steps:

In Slide view, select the object.
Right-click the object, point to Hyperlink, and then click Open.

The hyperlink now activates.

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