Hyperlinks won't operate on some computers

[Guest]

My presentation has been published on a CD-ROM as a .pps file. It contains
hyperlinks from Slides 3-14 back to "Slide 2". These links work fine on some
computers, but not others. In the latter case, I'm told that when the
presentation is opened for editing, every hyperlink has somehow changed to
read "#0. Slide 0". Is it something I could have avoided when saving the PPS
file, or something that can be rectified by the user (without editing every
single hyperlink), or both?

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Steve,
There is a limited storage capacity for storing information about these
links. Around 64k in older versions of PowerPoint. And this space is also
used by PowerPoint internally to store additional info. It's possible that
all the linking is filing up this space and causing the unexpected behavior
on some machines.


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Regards,
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox
http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox

 

[Guest]

Thanks Shyam.
Can you tell me where the links are stored please - somewhere within the
presentation, or in PowerPoint itself? And does it depend more on the version
of PPT being used, or the computer itself?
Is there anyway around this problem?
Perhaps I could send you a copy of the presentation to try (about 4mb)?

 

[Guest]

If you go here
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/downloads.htm
and download the demo of fixlinks , run a report and it will tell you the
approx memory used by links. I doubt you have any thing like 32K from your
description unless you have very long titles. (The link data includes slide
ID, Index and title)
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John Wilson
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[Guest]

Thanks John.
The report ends: "Approximate link storage: 657 bytes" - is that what space
is left or what is being used? Sounds enormous anyway!

 

[Guest]

"Approximate link storage: 657 bytes"

That's nothing! This is from the pptfaq site

"As a general rule, we'd suggest caution if it reports more than 15,000
bytes worth of links."

Email me the presentation if you want
john AT SIGN technologytrish.co.uk

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[Guest]

Thanks John. I'll send the file through to you.

"Approximate link storage: 657 bytes"

That's nothing! This is from the pptfaq site

"As a general rule, we'd suggest caution if it reports more than 15,000
bytes worth of links."

Email me the presentation if you want
john AT SIGN technologytrish.co.uk

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Did that answer the question / help?
_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html