Pack and Go; hyperlinks fail

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Eric Brown

Set up a presentation with hyperlinks to other
presentations. Changed hyperlinks from hard links to
relative hyperlinks. Ran Pack and Go; opened presentation
clicked on hyperlinks; receive err mess "cannot open
specified file". What's the problem?
 
One of the weaknesses of pack and go, I'd guess. Check the links against
the current location of everything. Relative links only continue to work if
you keep all the files together in the same location, relative to one
another. If the pres1.ppt is linking to another as "pres2.ppt", then
pres2.ppt must currently still be in the same folder as pres1.ppt, etc.
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Thanks for the quick response. All the ppt's are in the
same folder as the index.ppt which has the hyperlinks to
the other ppt's. I need this to work and I need this to
work today for a cd project. I removed the path names to
the linked files so that link1 equals pres1.ppt without
the path. I am repacking as we speak. Any other
suggestions?
Eric Brown
 
Why are you using pack and go?

Eric Brown said:
Thanks for the quick response. All the ppt's are in the
same folder as the index.ppt which has the hyperlinks to
the other ppt's. I need this to work and I need this to
work today for a cd project. I removed the path names to
the linked files so that link1 equals pres1.ppt without
the path. I am repacking as we speak. Any other
suggestions?
Eric Brown
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Do I need pack & go to burn the files to a CD and have
them work properly. I wanted to include a viewer as well
for distribution to 2000 people. The files can all fit on
a cd but I thought I needed pack and go to achieve what I
need. Can I just put the files and the viewer on the cd
and have it all work?
Thanks
eric
 
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