I write reports for dissemination through a network drive. The main report 
has multiple hyperlinks in it to secondary reports. Whenever I email the main 
report to my customers, they have been able to open it (Powerpoint 2003) and 
scroll through the report. The included links in the main report would send 
them to the various secondary reports they needed to view.

Now when I try to email this main report, it changes all the hyperlinks to a 
local folder on my PC (C:/Document and Settings/Temporary Internet.....)

Why would the links be reset to a different destination whenever the main 
report was emailed? I've done this at least 3 times with no problems, but now 
I can't send out my main report since none of the secondary reports can be 
accessed due to bad file paths.

Anyone have a clue about why this would happen and how to correct it?

Thanks,
KevinW

In article <CE24B8C1-B2DF-4CE8-8CBF-9DA96AF4EBF9@microsoft.com>, KevinW wrote:
> I write reports for dissemination through a network drive. The main report 
> has multiple hyperlinks in it to secondary reports. Whenever I email the main 
> report to my customers, they have been able to open it (Powerpoint 2003) and 
> scroll through the report. The included links in the main report would send 
> them to the various secondary reports they needed to view.
> 
> Now when I try to email this main report, it changes all the hyperlinks to a 
> local folder on my PC (C:/Document and Settings/Temporary Internet.....)
> 
> Why would the links be reset to a different destination whenever the main 
> report was emailed? I've done this at least 3 times with no problems, but now 
> I can't send out my main report since none of the secondary reports can be 
> accessed due to bad file paths.

It sounds like something like this is happening:

You're inserting the links from the same folder as the PPT itself (on your 
system) so it's creating relative (ie, pathless) links.  When you do that, PPT 
looks in the same folder as the PPT file for linked files.

When you open the file directly from your email, you're opening a temporary copy 
of the file in (probably) the folder you mention above.  Since the linked files 
aren't there, the links don't work.

Depending on the sort of links you're using, it may work to put the PPT in a 
different folder from the one that holds the linked files, THEN create the 
links.


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