Hello Glenna Shaw,

Thanks for pointing me to this link.

I have seen some of the resources mentioned by this page already. But, I
haven't come across a page that given me a hint to avoid the dialog for
"update links" popping up, while automating ppt.

Regards,
Mohan

Hello Shyam,

Your reply is very encouraging to me since it gives me the hint that it may
be possible.

This is the code that I am using. Please do advise me how to improve this,
so that  the "updatelinks" dialog does not come up during the opening of the
ppt.

The dialog comes with three options. Update Links, Cancel and Help. The
focus is by default on "Cancel". If there is someway to tell powerpoint to
choose the "Cancel" by default (so that the dialog does not popup), rather
than the user giving the input, then it would be able to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance,
Mohan

The default option of the

Sub Macro1()
   
   Set oPpt = CreateObject("Powerpoint.Application")
   
   On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
   
   With oPpt
   
       .DisplayAlerts = ppAlertsNone
               
       .Presentations.Open FileName:="C:\test.ppt", WithWindow:=msoFalse
             
       With .Presentations("test")

           With .PrintOptions
               .NumberOfCopies = 1
               .PrintInBackground = False
           End With

       .PrintOut
       .Saved = True
       .Close
       End With

       .DisplayAlerts = ppAlertsAll
       
ErrorHandler:
       .Quit
       
   End With
   
   Set oPpt = Nothing
   
End Sub