PPT2000: Object Hyperlinks Are Lost When Saving To An HTTP Or FTP Server

PowerPoint 2000 allows you to use the copy and paste technique to move an object to another slide as a hyperlink. If you do this with a presentation that has been saved to a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server, they will initially seem to function correctly. If you reopen the file, start the slideshow, and try to navigate through the show using these hyperlinks after you save and close the presentation, you will get the following error message:

When you work with a file stored on a HTTP or FTP server, you are actually working with a temporary copy of the file, that has been downloaded into your temporary directory. The hyperlinks that are created by the copy and paste method will reference this temporary file instead of the actual file on the server. The links will have the following format:
Where Temp_Path is the path to your local temp directory, XXX is a number assigned to the temporary file, and N is the index position of the slide in the presentation.

Use Action Settings to Link to Slides

Instead of using the Paste Hyperlink feature of PowerPoint 2000, use the Action settings feature to set up hyperlinks between slides in the same presentation. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Select the text or object you want to represent the hyperlink.
2. On the Slide Show menu, click Action Settings.
3. Click the Mouse Click tab.
4. Click Hyperlink to, and then select where you want to jump.
5. Click OK.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).