launch specific slide from excel hyperlink

I am using Office 2003 SP3. On this PC only (Dell M6300 laptop), can't seem

to get excel to launch a specific slide, always just launches the first

slide.

tried copy and paste hyperlink and seems like it adds the correct additions

to the filename (path/filename.ppt,256,2 nickname). I also tried the

"=hyperlink(path/filename....)" and didn't work either. tried changing the

hyperlink to path/filename.ppt#2 with no luck.

Is there something about my PC settings or the app settings I need to change?