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Powerpoint 2010 - Create an absolute link to a network shared file

Hello Guru's,

 

I want to create absolute link to a file on a network share within in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation which is subsequently loaded to our intranet.  Everyone on our internal network has access to this network share via a common mapped drive.  Whenever I open the PowerPoint 2010 presentation on any computer, the link works and we can access it, but as soon as I put the PowerPoint presentation on our intranet, then the link is converted to a URL and the link is broken.  I don't want powerpoint to change the hyperlink (ie relative), but I cannot for the life of me find any settings to force an absolute URL.  Any ideas?

 

Kind Regards,

 

Tony Heinrich

Can you provide an example or two of the links as created and as converted to URL?

Also, how exactly are users opening the PPT over the intranet?  Via a url or ???
How does that differ from how they'd open it across the mapped drive?

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Hey Steve,

 

Thank you for your reply.  I left out some important information, so I will step through everything with more information.

 

  1. Create a powerpoint presentation, write some text, highlight the text, then select "Insert | Hyperlink".
  2. On the Hyperlink screen, I choose, "Existing File or Web Page", then navigate to a file on a network share (P: drive) - "P:\NIW IM\11 NiW IM Service Delivery\Problem Reporting (AH)\1Portal AAN BCD PowerPoint Linking (AH)\Employment Relationships.pdf"
  3. We then save the file as a PDF (using the Microsoft plugin) and if we open the PDF file on a network drive or from the local C drive and mouse over the link, then the link looks correct and still works file://filepath
  4. However, when we upload the same PDF to the intranet, and mouse over the URL the link reverts to https://filepath and the link no longer works.

So I am trying to prevent this auto change of the protocol of how to serve the file, buy setting the link as absolute.  This was available in Powerpoint 2003 by setting the base location and putting in an asterix.  In MSWord, you would put a period (.)

 

So I would like to know how I insert an absolute link so it is not changed.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Anthony Heinrich

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Thanks for the add'l detail ... there's still one bit missing that I'd like to understand:  when you're looking at the PDF on the intranet, are you invoking it from within a browser?  

What software is opening the PDF?  Adobe Reader, and if so, standalone or within the browser?

Does the pointer change to a www when you hover over the link?
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Hi Steve,

 

It is opening with adobe reader, within the browser.

 

The pointer doesnt change to www, it only changes the first part of the link previously stating file://servername/sharename/filepath/filename.pdf , but now states https://servername/sharename/filepath/filename.pdf

 

I just noticed that even though I select a file on our P drive, it converts to the full UNC path.  I wish it would just stay as the path I designated, rather than auto change information.  I just want to specify a path to a file and it stay that way... sheesh.

 

Cheers,

 

Tony

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I've seen PPT variously report UNC (ie, //servername/share/path/filename.ext) vs C:\path\filename.ext names for the same file on a network server; never have quite sorted out what triggers that.  But from what you're describing, you're seeing something different; something's converting from file:// to https:// 

Frustrating!

But because the same file works differently depending on whether it's opened standalone or within a browser/intranet, I have to suspect that this is some oddity of Reader's.

Intranet aside, does the same thing occur if you have an html file on your local drive, one with a link to your PDF, and you click that to force the PDF to open in the browser?

Do you have a copy of Acrobat that you can use to examine the actual link target?


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