[Cindy M.]

Hi Geoff,

Not easily reproducible... Have you asked this in a Powerpoint group,
where the people would be more likely to have all the "bits and pieces"
necessary to research this?

I can't imagine why the Word application window would completely disappear
from the Windows UI, just by clicking a hyperlink. Hidden by starting a
slide show, yes. But there might be something about the PPT technology
involved in everything you're doing that's coming into play here.

Ah ah! I guess I should have added that when the Word doc is accessed
from a PowerPoint slide and the use then selects the link to a ppt
file, you can no longer see the Word doc.

Yeah, that would have made a difference in my answer :-) Now I have to
ask you

1. Version of Office

Cindy,

PowerPoint 2003

2. The exact steps for this scenario, so that we can try to reproduce
it

well - I have a series of ppt files which act as menus - they have
hyperlinks on them which link to ppt files. One of these might have a
link to a Word doc. The Word doc has a link to a ppt file. Double
clicking on this link runs the ppt file but the Word file can no
longer be seen and is left open.

one option of course is to make a link in the ppt file back to the
Word doc and then it can be closed in the normal way but I was just
wondering it there is any way to close the Word doc automatically
after the user has moved to the linked ppt file?

NB this is using the Viewer not PPT itself.

Cheers

Geoff


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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