copy/paste slides into PowerPoint the hyperlinks don't work

[Guest]

I am an elementary school technology teacher. I gave this assignment to
each student: Create a 5 slide PowerPoint presentation. 3 of the slides
should be Multiple Choice Questions. Each answer should be hyperlinked to
either one of two additional slides that say Right Answer or Wrong
Answer(they also had to include a picture, animate WordArt and the picture,
and include a sound on these slides.) When they were finished they copied
and pasted their slides into a Class PowerPoint (about 60 slides total) so
that we could play the presentation as a "Game Show"(like Who Wants to be a
Millionaire) PROBLEM: When pasted into the Class PowerPoint all of the
hyperlink no longer worked!!! We used the Paste Option - Keep Source Format
- that copied all of their backgrounds, etc. but not the hyperlinks. I have
4 classes that I did this activity with and am frantic to find a solution to
this problem as school is going to end in less than two weeks. Students are
REALLY excited about this and will be very disappointed if the "Game Show"
doesn't work. I am using Microsoft Office 2000.

 

[Guest]

I think the following tutorial should help:
Linking PowerPoint Presentations Together Seamlessly:
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

- Chirag

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http://officeone.mvps.org/anims/anims.html

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

As Chirag said, one solution is to link. Another possibility (I'm not
sure if it will work, but it has a better chance than copying and
pasting) is to use Insert > Slides > From File.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Kathy J]

Check into these two entries from Steve Rindsberg's PPT FAQ:
Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm

Hyperlinks don't work after copy/paste
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00488.htm

PowerPoint only has so much space to store the hyperlinks and I think you
exceeded it. (I'm thinking this is the case because you say the kids linked
the answers to the right or wrong pages. One thing you might try is to link
the answer boxes instead of the answer text. However, if you do that, you
will need the second item - it talks about potential problems with
hyperlinking shapes.)

Let us know if this helps!
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Hmm. 60 slides with a couple of hyperlinks in each slide doesn't sound
like too much to me. I know it depends on a variety of things, but I'm
guessing that filling the hyperlink space is not the problem.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Kathy J]

I would agree, expect for the fact that the kids probably linked the whole
answer. That means that every character is stored with the hyperlink. Put
120 of those together each pointing to a specific slide (instead of a custom
show) and you quickly run into problems. (Been there done that,
unfortunately.)

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

So you're saying that if I have a line of text with 50 characters, and I
set a hyperlink for that text, I really have created 50 different
hyperlinks? That's amazing. (I use the word "amazing" because I can't
think of a polite way to say what I really mean).
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Kathy J]

Nope - saying that all fifty characters are stored with the link. Shorter
selected text means less space used in the already short amount of space
reserved for hyperlinks. 32 k doesn't go very far in the best of
circumstances. Long link titles (on the definition or destination side) make
it worse.

Having said that: One solution mentioned in the FAQ is an add-in of Bill's
that lets you do hyperlinks better. Check it out at:
http://billdilworth.mvps.org/UnlimitedLinks.htm
(only problem is that it requires VBA, so any presentation created with this
technique doesn't work with the Viewer)

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Ah! That's better. PowerPoint is only being a little bit stupid, not a
lot stupid as I had assumed.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

So you're saying that if I have a line of text with 50 characters, and I
set a hyperlink for that text, I really have created 50 different
hyperlinks?

No, and in fact the length of text you apply the hyperlink TO doesn't matter.
But if you link from that text to another slide, the slide's title will be part
of the link address, and that counts against your 32k limit.

And following Kathy's logic, if each answer were a title slide with the title
text = the answer, that could make for some space hungry hyperlinks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

One other thing to check for is slide titles with commas in them.
That can cause the links to fail.

Incidentally, are you certain that the links are gone or is it that they're
there but no longer work?

One thing that might help diagnose the problem - we have a PowerPoint addin
called FixLinks. There's a free demo at http://fixlinks.pptools.com

The demo allows you to create a links report. If you would do that on a couple
of the individual student presentations, then do the same on the completed
presentation and paste the results here, it may be useful.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

OK. I think I have it now. I think I understand it the same way I
understood it before, except now I understand Kathy's response. It's the
long titles of the slide being linked to that could be the problem.
--David

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

OK. I think I have it now. I think I understand it the same way I
understood it before, except now I understand Kathy's response. It's the
long titles of the slide being linked to that could be the problem.
--David
Bingo.

 

[Guest]

This is a belated thank you for helping me solve my linking problem in PPT.
Your suggestion of using the method found on the Awesome website did the
trick. The students REALLY enjoyed playing their game show! Thanks Again!
SJM