PowerPoint 2K corrupting hyperlinks

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Hi, I'm having problems where every time I restart my pc, all hyperlinks I'd created the day before are reassigned to the wrong slides. I'm running PowerPoint 2000 and not switching machines. The slides are in subdirectories of the folder where I'm saving the presentation. I'll test all links throughly before and after testing and they work fine, but at next boot, they inconsistently link to the wrong slides. Any help would be appreciated in ways that you can't begin to fathom. BTW, the presentation I'm working on is 669 slides (64MB total) and many slides have 15+ hyperlinks. I've already tried all the FAQ answers I've found on the net (disabling fast saves, etc), but with no luck and a deadline looms near. Again, thanks.
 
I think your problem lies with too many hyperlinks.

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm

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johnnylockjaw said:
Hi, I'm having problems where every time I restart my pc, all hyperlinks
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I'd created the day before are reassigned to the wrong slides. I'm running
PowerPoint 2000 and not switching machines. The slides are in
subdirectories of the folder where I'm saving the presentation. I'll test
all links throughly before and after testing and they work fine, but at next
boot, they inconsistently link to the wrong slides. Any help would be
appreciated in ways that you can't begin to fathom. BTW, the presentation
I'm working on is 669 slides (64MB total) and many slides have 15+
hyperlinks. I've already tried all the FAQ answers I've found on the net
(disabling fast saves, etc), but with no luck and a deadline looms near.
Again, thanks.
 
Hmm... I was afraid of that. So there's no real work-around? It's a pretty large presentation because it's a software simulator. What about breaking it into smaller presentations and linking all of these through one master? And thanks for the really quick response.
 
Only fix/workaround I know is to break it into smaller chunks -- as you mentioned. I thought the FAQ page mentioned that; sorry if it didn't.

TAJ has a nice technique for linking that you might be interested in. See http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm But be aware that this technique won't work in the new PPT Viewer -- just wanted you to know that up front in case you're using it for distribution.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com
 
Hmm... I was afraid of that. So there's no real work-around? It's a pretty large
Click to expand...
presentation because it's a software simulator. What about breaking it into smaller
presentations and linking all of these through one master? And thanks for the really
quick response.
You mentioned the links to other slides breaking - there's an obscure way around that.
The link information includes the title of the slide you've linked to.

You can cut down the amount of link text by substituting a simple title like "Sld 1".

Basically the drill is:

Copy the existing title text
Paste it back as a plain text box
Change the title placeholder to something very short

Then move the title placeholder off the slide on the slide master so the shortened
titles don't appear.


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