Video file path

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This is an age-old problem, anyone seen an answer......
You have a PP presentation and you have placed a video clip on a slide from a CD (say your D: drive)
PP does not embed the video - just the link to the video.
If you then run the slide show (complete with CD of video images) on a computer that has a its CD drive with a different letter (say E:), PP cannot find the video image.
But there is no way of saying to PP "what was my D: drive is now my E: drive"

Anyone come up with a non-macro solution ???

Thanks
 
Sure, and we share it with people here every day. You want to create
"pathless" or relative links. If the presentation has already been created,
delete all linked files and then do this:

These steps are important to help ensure that your file links are "relative"
and will still
work when you transport your presentation to other systems.

1. Assemble all of the sounds, animations, narrations, movies, and any
other files you think you might use, into a single working folder on your
hard disk.

2. Open a new presentation and save it to the working folder. Then begin
adding files, links, etc. to the presentation.

3. Save often to protect your work.

4. Don't link to any file that does not already reside in your working
folder.

5. When your presentation is complete, save it to the working folder. Move
all files together when distributing to another system from the working
folder and keep them in a single folder on the new system or on a CD.

--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

Grey Newt said:
This is an age-old problem, anyone seen an answer......
You have a PP presentation and you have placed a video clip on a slide from a CD (say your D: drive)
PP does not embed the video - just the link to the video.
If you then run the slide show (complete with CD of video images) on a
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computer that has a its CD drive with a different letter (say E:), PP cannot
find the video image.
 
Hello,

No macro is necessary. If you have a presentation that works just fine
(there are no broken links to any of your supporting files, like movies)
just use Pack and Go (PPT 2002 or earlier) or Package for CD (PowerPoint
2003) to create a folder which contains the presentation and all supporting
files. The contents of that folder can then be moved intact from one system
to another (however you are able to do it) and the linked content will work
just fine.

PPT 95, 97, 2000, 2002 - Pack and Go.

1) Open presentation and verify that all content looks and plays as
intended in slide show
2) File -> Pack and Go ... go through wizard to save presentation and
linked files (and if necessary, the Viewer) to a new/empty folder on hard
drive.
3) In Windows Explorer navigate to folder in step 2 above
4) Unpack the prez0.ppz by launching PNGSETUP.EXE from the folder in step 2
above (it should find prez0.ppz automatically) and specify another
new/empty folder into which the presentation is unpacked.

Now you can copy the folder into which everything was unpacked (in step 4)
to another machine and you won't have to worry about broken links to media.

1) Open presentation and verify that all content looks and plays as
intended in slide show
2) File -> Package for CD.... go through options to save presentation to CD
or Folder (and if necessary, the Viewer)

Now you can copy the folder (or take the CD) created in step 2 above to
another machine and you won't have to worry about broken links to media.

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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