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I would like to make a clickable content page for a presentation in PowerPoint 2010. For this I created a page wich includes several objects I would like to use as clickable linking to other slides in the same presentation.
To do this I selected the object (just a rectangle) and selected "hyperlink" -> Place in This document -> selected the slide
When trying to click the object i get the error message: "Cannot open specified file"
After some reading on internet i tried:
In all cases I keep getting the same error.
Does anybody has a suggestion what I can do to fix this?
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Long shot!
File > Info
In the right pane click the drop arrow PROPERTIES and choose Advanced Properties.
In the summary tab is the Hyperlink base box empty??
I had this problem when trying to create a hyperlink to MP4 files. One worked but the other eight did not, all on the same slide. The eight files that did not open via hyperlink all had a # in their file name and once I removed the # the hyperlink worked.
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NICE detective work there, Ned.
And thanks for reporting the solution here.
I did try it and the hyperlink base box is empty still the link is not working and the message "cannot open specified box".
More help pls.
You're replying to a very old set of messages and possibly with a different problem than the messages deal with.
Suggestion: create a NEW question and include details on what you're trying to do, provide the EXACT text of any error messages you see. "Cannot open specified box" isn't a PPT error message, so far as I know.