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K J Boland - 01 Jun 2006 18:09 GMT

showing my ignorance of ppt more and more...

I want to distribute the ppts with links etc on a CD. Is there no way to
have supplementary info in a sub directory of the main ? I tried a fix of
copying everything to desk top, but this still won't allow relative
references.

I want the ppts in the top directory and linked reference information
underneath that. I had tried a macro to manually change the hyperlink to
..\blank\ydfdsf or .\blank\sdasd or blank\afdsf which appears to work
sometimes and sometimes not. In fact, since I moved them to desktop it
seems to work less well than before.

thanks again for good support here.

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Steve Rindsberg - 01 Jun 2006 20:53 GMT

> showing my ignorance of ppt more and more...
>
> I want to distribute the ppts with links etc on a CD. Is there no way to
> have supplementary info in a sub directory of the main ? I tried a fix of
> copying everything to desk top, but this still won't allow relative
> references.

I'm not sure I understand the logic in copying it to the desktop.
It's just another folder, albeit an "annointed" one that Windows treats
specially ... ie, it shows the contents on your desktop. Other than that,
nothing magic about it.

> I want the ppts in the top directory and linked reference information
> underneath that. I had tried a macro to manually change the hyperlink to
> ...\blank\ydfdsf or .\blank\sdasd or blank\afdsf which appears to work
> sometimes and sometimes not. In fact, since I moved them to desktop it
> seems to work less well than before.

If you have the .PPS in the root and a folder named Blank below that, and in
it, a file called Blah.pps, a manually edited link that points to

Blank\Blah.pps

will work, subject to a couple of gotchas:

1) It won't work for OLE links. These MUST have the full path.

2) If you start PPT and choose the main file from the MRU (most recently used
list), relative links won't work.

3) If you manually edit the link w/o first copying the file to the folder
you're trying to link to, PPT won't bark at you but it won't change the link
either. It ignores your edit. Put the file where you want it, THEN edit the
link to point there.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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