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sathishvijay <sathish.vijayaraghavan@gmail.com> wrote in message <0387520a-639d-48d2-b04f-2963e8e5e017@f3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>...
> Hello
> 
> I would like to know how to open a *.fig file from PowerPoint
> presentaion. The objective is like, am having a presentation wherein
> the slides have few matlab plots. The plots are caputred as fig files
> and then for the sake of PowerPoint presentation, I convert them to
> JPG and embed them in the slides.
> I tried to use action settings in power point presentation, but am
> getting an information message everytime I click on that figure.
> Please let me know what is the easy and convinient way (if there is
> any, Hopefully it should be there... ) to save the fig files in
> PowerPoint presentation and open them during the course of
> presentation, do some zooming and stuff and return back to
> presentation upon closing the fig files.
> This query amay look trivial, but I need it since my current task
> requires me to do more of presenting the results.
> 
> Thanks.

In powerpoint 2007 I pop the image in the slide, right click on it and select hyperlink, then set the link to the .fig file I want to open. This worked for me, albeit with a couple of warnings.