Finding hidden links in a PPT (2002)

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I have a presentation that is causing a security alert when opened in
PowerPoint 2007 (trying to link to external content).

I have removed all active hyperlinks from the presentation (using PPT 2002),
I am not linking to external images - and it still gives this error in Office
2007.

How can I find out if there is a link or external content hidden somewhere
in the presentation?

Thanks
 
Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply. I actually only have PPT 2002 - it's my clients who
are opening the file and getting the error. This is what they replied:

When I open it I get the standard “Security Warning: References to external
pictures have been blockedâ€. If I press the options button that follows the
warning the Security Alert tells me that if I choose to accept the security I
will be downloading pictures from “untrusted locationsâ€.

Do you have any thoughts on this? I truly appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Jailyn
 
Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply. I actually only have PPT 2002 - it's my clients who
are opening the file and getting the error. This is what they replied:

When I open it I get the standard “Security Warning: References to external
pictures have been blockedâ€. If I press the options button that follows the
warning the Security Alert tells me that if I choose to accept the security I
will be downloading pictures from “untrusted locationsâ€.

Do you have any thoughts on this? I truly appreciate your help.
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Hm. I haven't run into this in 2007 but I haven't used 2007 all that heavily.

I'm guessing that it might be one of two things:

1) The images are linked rather than embedded. This is a bit unusual, in that you
have to go out of your way to link images. If you'd done it, I figure you'd know.
So. Did you? ;-) Or has someone else worked on the file?

2) Sometimes when you copy/paste or drag an image from a browser window into PPT,
you can inadvertently set up a hyperlink that's quite difficult to track down.

For starters, try downloading the free FixLinks demo at
http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/

Run a link report and see if anything unusual/unexpected appears there. If you want
to send me the report at steve at sign pptools dot com I'll be happy to have a look.

And have a look here for more about #2

PowerPoint connects to the internet unexpectedly
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00613.htm
 
I'm relatively sure that none of the images are linked. Of course, I'm not
ruling anything out at this point!

I'll grab the tool you recommended below and let you know how that turns out.

Thanks again for your help.
 
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