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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2007hyperlinks changing
My son has made a powerpoint maze game with 600 slide with hyperlinks that seem to be now causing errors and turning into URL's. The files seem to change whilst in use.... He broke the files into smaller sub files but the links are still changing even in the smaller files from hyperlinks to URL links... We read to change the save function on the help reports and turned OFF the allow fast saves option ...Before he gets more distressed is this all he needs to do...He has spent months making the maze game and nearly finsihed when it all started cahnging. Please tell us he will not have to to re-do all the hyperlinks ...there are hundreds of them as it is a maze game where you jump bewteen levels etc... thanks from his Dad who knows a bit about powerpoint but not as much as his son and cant fix it !!! Disabling fast saves is a good idea no matter what, but it probably won't have any effect on the hyperlinking problem. It's hard to tell what's going on w/o seeing the actual file (and even then it might be hard to work out) but I suspect he's running into a known PPT problem. PPT allocates only a fixed amount of space for storing links. Once you exceed that limit, the links start to misbehave. To get some idea of the amount of storage space already in use, you might want to download our free PPTools FixLinks demo; it includes a tool that produces a handy report on all the links in your presentation. There's no need to purchase anything. The demo's all you'll need for this. http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/ If you'd like me to have a look at the results, email me the report file. steve a-in-a-circle pptools dot com > My son has made a powerpoint maze game with 600 slide with hyperlinks that > seem to be now causing errors and turning into URL's. The files seem to [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > thanks from his Dad who knows a bit about powerpoint but not as much as his > son and cant fix it !!! ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ There is a limit to the amount of hyperlink info Powerpoint can store. Do the slides have fairly long titles? Since the slide title is part of the stored info short titles can help. See here for a vbs solution: http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00683.htm  SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials-http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > My son has made a powerpoint maze game with 600 slide with hyperlinks that > seem to be now causing errors and turning into URL's. The files seem to [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > thanks from his Dad who knows a bit about powerpoint but not as much as his > son and cant fix it !!! |
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