Power Point Slideshow burned to a cd

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Michael

I am trying to create a slideshow with links such that I
can burn it to a cd. My goal is an independant cd that I
can give to others so they can review the info and link
form a main menu to other presentations and back again.
Everytime I burn the cd however, the links break. Can
anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

I think the root of my problem is that when I create the
link the file I am linking to is on my c:\drive but when
it reads from the d:drive it can't find the file though
it is also on the d:drive in the same cd. I think the
solution is in choosing the right way to link the other
presentations such that they work when they are burned to
the cd (though they may not when originally created???).

Thanks,

Mike
 
You can have your cake and eat it too. <G> Gather all of the files
together into a single folder on your hard drive, e.g., C:\Staging. Then
delete the exisiting links and re-link everything. The links will be
"pathless" as long as the link target is in the same folder as the
presentation. Once you have done all of that, you can burn the contents of
C:\Staging to your CD and the links won't break. Or you can zip it all up
and email it (if it isn't too large), or you can move the \Staging folder to
another hard drive. The links will work.
--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003
 
Sonia,

I appreciate your help here. To be more clear, all my
files are in a single folder. They are not in a root
directory, but they are in a single file folder.

Mike
 
Were they all in the folder on your hard drive when you created the
presentation and inserted the links? You can't just gather them together
after the fact. They must be linked based on their location in the common
folder on the hard drive.
 
Sonia,

Yes they were. When I wave my mouse over the hyperlinking
object, it displays the path and the path is C:\xxx\xxx
where the original material was burned from. So the
presentation is being read from the d:drive and the files
are in the same folder right there next to the "main
menu" file but the hyperlink is pointing back to the
c:drive on the system that the material was created from
(I have 2 systems available).

Again, I appreciate your assitance here.

Mike
 
How did you create the links? Did you go to Slide Show > Action Settings >
Hyperlink and select "Other PowerPoint Presentation"? Or did you use Insert
Hyperlink?
Click to expand...

There must be something different that you are doing because I use this
method all of the time and I know it works. How are you running the
presentation? Is it an autorun CD that uses the Viewer, or are you opening
PowerPoint and then opening the main presentation?
 
Sonia,

I went to to Slide Show > Action Settings >
Hyperlink and select "Other PowerPoint Presentation." I
Click to expand...
also tried same steps and then "other file."

Both turned out broken links after I wrote the CD.

The message says, "cannot open the specified file."

I didn't want to use the "insert hyperlink" because I
didn't want it to look like a hyperlink. I wanted to
retain the diferent colors and avoid the underlining.

I am just double clicking on my menu.ppt file to open and
then putting it in slideshow mode. I have also tried
saving as menu.pps file with the same results.

Mike
 
Well, your links aren't relative then. I know that you said they were all
gathered together in a single folder *before* you made any of the links, but
the symptoms seem to indicate that they weren't in the same folder. When
you play the slide show from a CD and hover over the links, the links should
point to the full path on the CD, not the hard drive.

In my case, I've just burned my files to a CD. On my desktop they reside in
a folder on the D: drive- - e.g., I've linked to D:\Data\PowerPoint
Live!\Distribution\Presentation\pres2.ppt. My main presentation is also in
:\Data\PowerPoint Live!\Distribution\Presentation\

I put the CD in my laptop's CD drive (E:) and open the main presentation
just as you describe and then view it in Slide Show mode. When I hover over
the link it reads, E:pres2.ppt#Tips and Tricks, which is slide 1 of the
presentation. When I click on the link the pres2.ppt file opens from the
CD. I don't even have a D: drive on my laptop.
 
The versions don't differ when it comes to links, but you should give it a
shot. A fresh start is always good when a problem can't be identified.
 
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