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bbilnoski - 25 Mar 2008 18:38 GMT

I'm having trouble using hyperlinks embedded in Word objects that I've pasted
into PowerPoint 2007. First, when mousing over the hyperlink in the pasted
Word object, the cursor only allows me to select the entire Word object,
rather than chaning to selectable hyperlink pointer that typically comes up
when putting the mouse over an active hyperlink.
When converting the same PPT document to a PDF via PowerPoint's embedded
"Save as PDF" feature, only the "mailto:xxxx@xxxx.xxx" links are active. All
the website hyperlinks in the Word Object just show up in different colored
and underlined text (so they look like a hyperlink), but the hyperlinks are
dead.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

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Steve Rindsberg - 26 Mar 2008 16:38 GMT

> I'm having trouble using hyperlinks embedded in Word objects that I've pasted
> into PowerPoint 2007. First, when mousing over the hyperlink in the pasted
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> and underlined text (so they look like a hyperlink), but the hyperlinks are
> dead.

When you have a Word object pasted into PPT, you're really looking at a picture
of how Word would display the object. No Word functionality is available until
you doubleclick to activate the object; then you're looking at an "instance" of
Word running within the PPT window.

Since the Word hyperlinks belong to Word and not PPT, they won't be active until
you doubleclick the Word object or otherwise activate it.

In order for the links to be active in PPT, you'll probably have to *create*
them in PPT. For example, over the Word object, where the links are, draw a
rectangle, give it no outline, 99% transparent fill and assign a hyperlink to
it.

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