In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Austin Myers wrote:
> "changhee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:3EC05043-21EC-4BDA-89AF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have a user who recieves this message on some ppt files. I need to know
> > how to disable the message via registry or policy or whatever means. I
> > know
> > how to temporaily set to manual in Edit, Links, and set to manual, but
> > that
> > is not sufficient. The message is below:
>
> Let me play devil's advocate here. I create a small executable file that
> installs a key logger, goes through your email, wipes your hard drive clean,
> or whatever nasty I want. Now I know you aren't likely to run an unknown
> application like this so I create a nice friendly PowerPoint presentation
> and put a link to the application in it and send the entire thing to you.
> See the problem???
Yes and no.
Links to EXEs won't trigger a link update request, so the example's not really
valid. Disabling the "Oh me oh my there's a link to an external file, what'll
I do what'll I do?" natter would indeed be problematic but I don't think that's
what's wanted here.
Changhee's asking to lose the "Do you want to update" dialog and set the links
to manual universally. IOW, if you were able to sneak a nasty OLEthingummint
onto the disk in place of an existing one, PPT wouldn't find it and upate to
the evil version unless the user manually forced the issue.
Knowhuttamean,vern? ;-)
Moot point in any case; I don't think there's any way to disable link updates
globally other than perhaps by running a macro that steps through all the PPT
files it can find and sets link updating to manual.
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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