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PPT98: Object Does Not Act as Hyperlink in Slide View

Article ID: 188844

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2002

Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q188844

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 hold the CONTROL key and 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.
Press CONTROL and click the object, point to Hyperlink, and then click Open.

The hyperlink now activates.

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