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by dan_hammock 1 view

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I am having a problem with opening linked presentations in PowerPoint Office 2000. When I create a presentation that has hyper links or action buttons and run the show it opens the linked PowerPoint files in normal view not slide show view like it should.

Our Office 2000 install is done through an automated installation using a program called ACMS. I do not have the Office 2000 disk to install it. All of the machines that have had Office installed using this ACMS method have the problem. I tried it on another PC that did not have Office installed using the ACMS program and the linked presentation opened in slide show view like it should. I also tried it on a PC that still has Office 97 and the linked presentation opened in slide show view like it should.

Someone told me I could save the linked files as PowerPoint Shows (*.PPS) and that worked but I would like for it to work without having to do that on each linked file.

I think this is just an option or setting that needs be changed. I went through the options and could not find anything. HELP!!!

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by ntoz

Its possible that your package that is deployed doesnt have SP1 and SP2 that address the issues your talking about. Its possible that the package was built prior to the availablity. If you have access to the web and you are able to update your system, Windows 98, 95, ME you can go to http://www.microsoft.com/office and find the automatic office update and have it apply the patches and see if it fixes your problem.

Pete

by dan_hammock

We have SP1 installed but don't want to have to install SP2 because of restrictions it places on opening attachments in Outlook.

Any suggestions that don't include SP2?

by dklippert

I'm using PowerPoint 2000 SR-1 (9.0.4910) and hyperlinks are working, as they should. Check to make sure that SR-1 is installed. The PPS route is also good. (You don't actually have to save as PPS, just change the extension).
Another way is to start another instance of PowerPoint with an /S flag.
PowerPoint.exe /S C:\Shows\BigShow.ppt
I don't know of any option selections that would make the difference.

by dan_hammock

This helped. It was not really the answer I wanted to hear. I did not want a work around but your workaroud was a better one than I had. Thanks for the help. Sorry about taking so long to close question.

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