Thank you Terry. I appologize if this is not the forum to express the following opinion, but it's a shame that an important feature like this is not working and apparently has not been for some time. In one of the messages on this thread a user says he is stuck at 1.1.5 because of it. There have been many improvements since then in Impress that I know about.
FYI, I am trying to promote OO in my work office whis is dominated by MS software. I find OO Impress much easier to work in than PowerPoint and have been developing materials using it. I am now starting a new project which will be a richly hyperlinked document with links to help files and Flash movies created with Wink to demonstrate GUI operations. It will make it difficult to promote and use these materials without relative links. I love what OO stands for and is providing to the software world. I just wish that features important to the application which may not be all that interesting to work on were given a higher priority by those of you who are developing the code. Hoping you will rethink priorities, Bob -----Original Message----- From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Open Office relative path vs. hard coded path. OO 2.0.1 is broke Hi, Bob. You would have to insert a spreadsheet into the presentation (or include a spreadsheet in the group of files) in order to take advantage of that method. I'm at a disadvantage there because I do not use presentations. I've just checked, though, and there is a menu command Insert >Spreadsheet. Perhaps the inserted spreadsheet could be an index? You will not find anything in Help. This was a method devised by someone to work around the lack in the software. A hyperlink in a spreadsheet can be created with a formula. The formula can refer to other cells containing components of the link. Instead of the =DDE mentioned in other messages in the thread, you would use the =HYPERLINK function. It is not the ideal method but I know of no other. Look back through the thread for further information. Bob Treder wrote: > Could someone please explain how to use the named references? I've tried > looking in help but have been unsuccessful. I am building Impress documents > and need to create relative paths which are still broken in OO 2.0.3. I > insert icons in the document that are hyperlinked to other documents. I > create the hyperlinks by right clicking on the icon image and selecting > "Interaction...". That opens a dialog with a list box of different options. I > select "Go to Document" and then browse to and select the document which > fills in the document URL. That is filled in as an absolute. Where in this > process can I use the named references indicated below to produce relative > paths? Or what other process do I use? > > I will be most grateful for a solution to this. > > Bob > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:19 PM > To: [email protected]; Bob Treder > Subject: Re: [users] Open Office relative path vs. hard coded path. OO 2.0.1 > is broke > > On Sat October 7 2006 09:39, + Bob Treder wrote: > >> [ MODERATED ] ******************** >> It looks like this is still broken in OO 2.0.3. I'm developing some >> training materials in Impress and badly need relative paths to make passing >> of materials work from wherever they are installed. Does anyone have a >> suggestion on how to work around this? Everytime I create the link in >> Impress, even with the two boxes checked that a mentioned in the messages >> below the full path gets saved. >> > > > As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: > On Sun October 8 2006 01:01, Terry wrote: > >> You could use the following methods published by an expert Spreadsheet >> user on the forum: >> >> [quote] >> Some named refs from my default template. No macros, >> platform-independant and they should work with Excel as well: >> cFilename =CELL("FILENAME") >> FilePath =RIGHT(FileURLPath;LEN(FileURLPath)-7) >> FileURL =MID(cFilename;2;SEARCH("'#";cFilename)-2) >> FileURLPath =MID(cFilename;2;SEARCH("/[^/]+'#";cFilename)-1) >> shSep =MID(ADDRESS(1;1;1;"Foo");4;1) >> ThisSheet =MID(cFilename;FIND("#$";cFilename)+2;256) >> >> shSep returns "." in Calc and "!" in Excel (useful with indirect() or >> pattern matching with/without regular expressions). >> "FilePath" with Windows: =SUBSTITUTE(FilePath;"/";"\") >> [end quote] >> > > Please reply to [email protected] only. -- If you're seeking, check out http://www.rci.org.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
