HELP!! PP 2000 stops saving changes

[Guest]

Has ANYONE had this happen? I am the "guy" who makes presentations for folks here at my hospital. Occasionally I get a person who has revision after revision, and PP will stop saving changes I've made. Areas in particular: Text boxes in a slide, and (the reason for this question), hyperlinks within a slideshow

We've created a Jeopardy-type learning event for our trauma staff (I think many of you have seen versions of Jeopardy! powerpoint out there), and I am trying to insert the "daily double" slide on one of the questions. All links on the main game board are set to go to their corresponding question slide. To make a determined question a daily double, you direct the hyperlink on the main gameboard to point to the (hidden) daily double slide, and point the daily double slide to the question slide. But no matter what I do, I cannot change the hyperlink to point to the hidden DD slide. I tried editing the hyperlink, tried changing the action settings, but it still goes to the original question slide. It is Sunday, May 9, and I've been trying to fix it since the 6th. We are presenting this to over 300 local fire and EMS personnel for EMS week on the 13th. HELP!!

Jo

 

[Echo S]

You've hit the link limit. See http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm

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Has ANYONE had this happen? I am the "guy" who makes presentations for

folks here at my hospital. Occasionally I get a person who has revision
after revision, and PP will stop saving changes I've made. Areas in
particular: Text boxes in a slide, and (the reason for this question),
hyperlinks within a slideshow.

We've created a Jeopardy-type learning event for our trauma staff (I think

many of you have seen versions of Jeopardy! powerpoint out there), and I am
trying to insert the "daily double" slide on one of the questions. All links
on the main game board are set to go to their corresponding question slide.
To make a determined question a daily double, you direct the hyperlink on
the main gameboard to point to the (hidden) daily double slide, and point
the daily double slide to the question slide. But no matter what I do, I
cannot change the hyperlink to point to the hidden DD slide. I tried
editing the hyperlink, tried changing the action settings, but it still goes
to the original question slide. It is Sunday, May 9, and I've been trying
to fix it since the 6th. We are presenting this to over 300 local fire and
EMS personnel for EMS week on the 13th. HELP!!!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Has ANYONE had this happen? I am the "guy" who makes presentations for folks

here at my hospital. Occasionally I get a person who has revision after revision,
and PP will stop saving changes I've made. Areas in particular: Text boxes in a
slide, and (the reason for this question), hyperlinks within a slideshow.

What Echo said. Possibly. In addition to the link she suggested, go here and do
the stuff it suggests:

Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

Start the presentation in slide show view and cycle through the links on each
slide by pressing TAB repeatedly. You'll see each link highlighted by a faint
dotted line around it.

You're looking for a link that you don't expect to be there. In some versions of
PPT, it's possible to create links to e.g. the end of a line of text ... but that
link won't work and will prevent PPT from seeing further links.

If you run into one of those, delete the paragraph it's in and the one after it,
then re-create the text and links.