PowerPoint hyperlinks using Internet Explorer instead of jumping to other slides

Here's a problem I had at work and it took me awhile to fix it, so I'm posting it here so I can find it again.

A user wanted to create clickable text in a PowerPoint presentation and have it jump to another slide within the same PPT presentation.

Insert > Hyperlink > Place in This Document

















This worked fine when I chose "Next Slide" but when I manually told it what slide to jump to, PowerPoint used Internet Explorer to open a link with that slide name, and it obviously failed.

It's supposed to simply display that page in PowerPoint, not try to open a web page.

I found the fix for this on PPTools. You need to select File > Properties > Summary, and select and delete any text in the "Hyperlink base" text field. Apparently my company had inserted their web address into that field in the default PPT template, so PowerPoint would call IE to open that site for all hyperlinks, even ones that were supposed to jump to new slides.

Tangy Taffy

What happened to Tangy Taffy? It can't be found anywhere.

I don't want the inferior Laffy Taffy - that stuff is junk, especially when all that's left is banana flavor because no one likes it and then all the rest of the candy in the bowl smells like banana Laffy Taffy.

Plus the jokes are bad. But a fun twist at parties is to reveal the answer to the jokes/puns/riddles first - and make people guess the question. And every time they get one wrong they have to eat a banana Laffy Taffy until all the banana ones are gone or someone has to go to the hospital.

I want a great big bar of the Tangy damn Taffy!

Preferably grape.

You're in the big league!

I couldn't find these lyrics anywhere, but I found the ad online. What a great song and a great gum. When it first came out a pack of Hubba Bubba was only 25 cents, but this gum was 75 cents, but so much cooler (bigger too)!

Now you can get them for $3.50/pack on Amazon.


You're in the big league,
When you make a perfect slide.

You're in the big league,
When you keep the team alive.

You're in the big league,
When you block a shot or two.

You're in the big league,
When you’re into Big League Chew!