hyperlinks change once copied to other machine

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Hello all. Am facing this strange issue. A presentation that I am working on
has quite few numbers of hyperlinks, few linking to other slides in the same
ppt and others to different ppt in the subfolder and some to other word and
excel files.

Now things worked fine till i sent the file to someone else to view and at
his end all the links have gone crazy and they link to totally different
locations. I searched the net and came across this info "PowerPoint has a
fixed limit upper limit on the amount of link information it can store. Once
you exceed those limits, your links start acting crazy. They're liable to
disappear or point to the wrong places" http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00683.htm

Is this correct. How do I fix it. I tried using the vba code posted on the
above site but in vain. Also searched the microsoft site but in vain...
please help

thanks
Parth
 
There is an upper limit for internal link storage and because ppt stores
other things in the same location it's difficult to predict when it's "full"

Usually though you would see the problem on your machine once the
presentation is saved and reopened.

I am working on a possble solution and would really like tio see your
failing presentation if thats possible.

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John I cannot share this presentation. I tried reopening this ppt multiple
times on my machine but all the links work fine at my end. Infact i tried
copying to different location on my pc but links still work. The moment i
share this file or send it, most of the links go haywire. They start linking
to different slides and files then they are suposed to.
This ppt has a total of 22 slides each slide has an index of links to the
other files in subfolders. To debug the same I even tried removing few slides
and makng them 15 but the links still goes for a toss.
 
It's difficult without seeing the file but usually you would need hundreds of
internal links to exceed the limit unless you have very long titles on your
slides.

The problem with external links will be something else!

Did you start with all files in a single folder which had a short path eg
C:\PPTS before making the links?
 
John I cannot share this presentation. I tried reopening this ppt multiple
times on my machine but all the links work fine at my end. Infact i tried
copying to different location on my pc but links still work.
Click to expand...

In most cases, PowerPoint includes the full path to linked files in the link.
That means that you can move the main PPT file around on your own PC ... the links
will still point back to the original file in its original location.

But when you send me the files, PPT and all the linked files, the links still point
to the original location on your HDD; unless I can duplicate the director structure
on my HDD, PPT won't find the linked files.

If you can't release the file for one of us to have a look you might instead try
the free FixLinks demo at http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/

It'll let you create a report of all the links in the presentation and will give
you some idea of the amount of link storage used.

You can post the report here if you like.

The moment i
 
Hey guys,
Thanks for responding. I did check the report using free fixtool. The report
listed a long list as well long slide titles. Which the slides have. Anyways
am planning to split this ppt further and see if things work. Thats what
seems to be the only solution.

thanks again
Parth
 
In PowerPoint 2007, when breaking external links from Excel files, internal
links from one "table of contents" type slide to individual slides are also
broken. The one or two hyperlinks on individual slides work fine.

I can't find a reference to this problem in my searches on this site and
else where.

Additional details: This file is password protected using the older 2003
standard, not the 2007. I'm doing this across a VPN, everything else has
worked fine, though a bit slow when saving etc. I'm using XP on Parallels on
a Mac, everything has worked just fine here too.
 
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