Hyperlinks to other presentation - changing slides position

[Susanne E.]

Hi

My presentation has many hyperlinks to particular slides
in another presentation. The problem is that I frequently
have to move slides around or insert new ones in my target
presentation. Whenever I do this, as a consequence my
hyperlinks will be wrong. Is there a way to define
hyperlinks to specific slides, independent of their
position in the presentation?

I am trying to insert new slides at the end, but the
presentation is very comlex and mistakes happen - I'd
rather not risk to mess up 50 hyperlinks each time.

I use PPT 2003.
Thanks for your ideas and comments.

Susanne

 

[Sonia]

Is there a reason for the cross linking? With PowerPoint 2003 you could merge
the two presentations and let PowerPoint update the links.

 

[Susanne E.]

Hi Sonia,

Thanks for the answer.

1) Yes, there is a reason. 80 slides in Presentation A and
150 in presentation B. We thought it was inevitable to
split the presentation to keep the size manageable.

2) Let Powerpoint update the links - how?

Susanne

 

[Sonia]

If all of the slides are in a single presentation with links from slide to slide
and you insert slides or re-order them, PowerPoint adjusts the links to keep the
pointers correct. It can do this because it has all 230 slides open and
available in a single file.

 

[Guest]

Hi Sonia,

Oh great, I did not know that.
Still my presentation is too big and complex to keep all
slides in one file.

You say Powerpoint can not keep hyperlink pointers correct
if they point to another file?

Susanne

 

[Sonia]

Well, PowerPoint treats each file as a single entity. If you change something
in one presentation, it doesn't have the capability of searching all of your
hard drives for other presentations that might be impacted because they link to
the one you've just changed. That's your job. On the other hand, it *does*
adjust things within the same presentation, so if you have a link to slide 3 but
then you insert a new slide in front of it, PowerPoint will adjust the link to
point to slide 4 because slide 3 has just become slide 4.

 

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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the linking functionality that you are looking
for.

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