Disable "update links" dialog box in PowerPoint

[Ray Maas]

When I have a powerpoint slideshow with links to other files (such as Excel
spreadsheets), every time I open the presentation I get the message The
presentation <filename> contains links. Do you want to update now?"

I know that by setting the autoupdate property in the lnks to manual I can
disable the alert message, but then, of course, the links don't update.

Is there any way to disable the message and STILL have the links update
anyway?

I'm asking because I'm trying to automate the creation of our web-based
slideshow each morning by running my Powerpoint macro from a Visual Basic
application. I've got that part working fine, but when the message pops up
someone has to be there to answer it.

I also know that Excel has an option to disable a similar message, but
Powerpoint doesn't seem to have one.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ray Maas

 

[Kurt]

Dear Ray,
Have a look at www.take-off.as/datapoint for self-maintaining and
self-updating presentations.
Kurt

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You might want to have a look here, Ray

http://www.mvps.org/skp/updtlinks.htm

That may not be what you need exactly but it might give you some ideas.
If you're invoking macros anyhow, perhaps you could set all the links to manual
update then have the macro force each to update.