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.

Microsoft Word 2003 Cursor Problem

I was able to solve a problem today that was bothering me for a couple weeks with Microsoft Word 2003 and I couldn’t find the solution elsewhere on the web.

I figured that I had better write it down somewhere because I'm sure it will happen to my again and my mind will be blank. It's actually a pretty obvious fix but I did see a few other people post the same question on several online forums.

When I opened a new document in Word my cursor appeared at the very top of the page. I was used to seeing an inch of white space on the top represents the top margin or header area, but for some reason that white space was gone.

The strange thing is that the document would still print properly, with the white space header, as it’s supposed to look. The Print Preview option also displayed the document correctly.

So here’s the fix and it’s an easy one. Simply move the mouse cursor to the top of the page in Word, just below the ruler. The cursor will change to a double-arrow box and a little yellow box will appear that says Show White Space. Just click to display the normal 1-inch white header area that you’re accustom to seeing. Duh! Click again to hide it, if that’s the backwards-crazy way you like to use Microsoft Word.


Let me know if this works for you.