Microsoft KB Archive/226782

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

Article ID: 226782

Article Last Modified on 8/30/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q226782



SYMPTOMS
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:

Cannot open the specified file.



CAUSE
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:

\mso .TMP#. Slide

Where  is the path to your local temp directory,   is a number assigned to the temporary file, and   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.



RESOLUTION
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:

276367 OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack



STATUS
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).

Additional query words: PPT2K PPT2000 PPT POWERPNT 2000 PPT9 9.0 hyper link lost missing gone broken error cannot doesnt work connect

Keywords: kbbug kboffice2000sp3fix kbweb kbhtml KB226782

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