how to link word documents within powerpoint

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Ross - 01 Sep 2007 16:14 GMT

I would like to create a hyperlink that opens a word document within a
powerpoint presentation and be able to forward the power presentation via
email.

I would like to also save the powerpont presentation in pdf with all the
hyperlinks perfectly working.

How do i go about this?

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Steve Rindsberg - 02 Sep 2007 00:54 GMT

> I would like to create a hyperlink that opens a word document within a
> powerpoint presentation and be able to forward the power presentation via
> email.
>
> I would like to also save the powerpont presentation in pdf with all the
> hyperlinks perfectly working.

While there's a way to embed document files in a PDF, you can't link to them.
You can only link to external documents, so you'd have to send both the PDF and
the linked Word files to the recipient, or embed the files in the PDF as well
as create links to external files in the same folder, then instruct the user at
the other end to extract the embedded files to the right place. Which they may
not be able to do depending on their version of Acrobat/Reader.

Pretty fragile.

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