Hyperlinks

[afzal77]

We have downloaded some powerpoints. When i open then in Open Office, the hyperlinks do not open up and when inspecting the link on editor there are not there.

[Villeroy]

We have downloaded some powerpoints.

Please share some file demonstrating the issue.

[afzal77]

Dear Sirs

The file size is too large but you can find the powerpoint on this site

https://www.dayslaneprimary.co.uk/bexle ... melearning

scroll to bottom and it is the

DT (01.06.20)
Week 1 - DT PPT

when i open in open office the hyperlink in slide 5 and 6 do not take me to the you tube page

Thanks

[Villeroy]

I'm afraid that neither OpenOffice nor LibreOffice can handle hyperlinks in PowerPoint files. LibreOffice is the more advanced successor to OpenOffice. I tested your file with AOO 4.1.7, LibreOffice 6 and LibreOffice 7.

[John_Ha]

I assume you are talking about the watch this video link on Slide 5. What does that link point to? Is it a video on a web page? or is it a video on your PC? Can you please post the actual link here so we can check it.

When I right-click and choose Interaction ..., it says No action. Are you sure it works in PowerPoint?

I ask because there is almost certainly a simple workaround.

An alternative, of course, would be for you to use AOO or LO or, at least, to offer a .odp file as an alternative to the .pptx file.

[Zizi64]

As John_Ha suggested, you can assign an interaction to the "Play" icons in your .odp document:

An another solution: you can assign a Macro (named: "myLink1") to the "Play" icon:

Code: Select all

Sub myLink1
	myHyperlink("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIBjmHSHs-w")
End Sub



Sub myHyperlink(myURl as string)
 Dim oSys as Object
 
	oSys = CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.system.SystemShellExecute")
	oSys.execute(myUrl, "", 0)
End Sub

[Zizi64]

I just assigned the macro to the "play" icon on the first slide, and assigned some YouTube "documents" (hyperlinks) directly to the "play" icons of the second slide.

(The other slides, and the large pixel-size pictures have been deleted from the sample file. The sample file was saved as a native .odp file in my LibreOffice 6.2.8. The YouTube "documents" are LibreOffice-related videos)

Week 1 - DT PPT-78894_unused.odp

(108.27 KiB) Downloaded 242 times

[afzal77]

Many thanks, will try Libra office as as alternative.

[Zizi64]

Many thanks, will try Libra office as as alternative.
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OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows

The name is LibreOffice

Otherwise, the macro can run in Apache OpenOffice too, and the direct associations work in the AOO too.
If you change to LibreOffice anyway, the please update your signature in this forum.

But you MUST use the native file formats for AOO and LO - when you use macros; and strongly recommended to use the native file formats in every other cases for the AOO and the LO.
The ODF file formats (.odt, .ods, .odp, ,odg, ...) are International ISO Standards.