Locating missing videos

[Andrew Robertson]

In PowerPoint 2000 it used to be easy to find video files that were
moved from the original location when inserted. In XP if you move a
video from its original palce when first inserted - I cannot seem to
find a browse function - which is a real pain.

Am I missing something or is it really not an option?

thanks

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In PowerPoint 2000 it used to be easy to find video files that were
moved from the original location when inserted. In XP if you move a
video from its original palce when first inserted - I cannot seem to
find a browse function - which is a real pain.

The free FixLinks demo at the PPTools link below will at least give you a
report on the links in your presentation and where the files are *supposed* to
be (ie, where the links point).

The full version will lets you browse to the current location of the video and
insert it from there; the demo doesn't allow this.

There's also this:

Show me the link and let me edit it
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00433.htm

If you only need to fix the occasional presentation, you can use the demo
FixLinks to locate the links on your slides and the code at the URL above to
let you manually edit the link.


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[Andrew Robertson]

Why did MS not leave the browse function as it was before - seems like
a very backward step to have removed that option?


regards

jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Why did MS not leave the browse function as it was before - seems like
a very backward step to have removed that option?

I don't know. Bill doesn't always ask my opinion on these things; if he had, I'd
have told him how annoyed you were gonna be and to leave it the heck alone. ;-)

regards

jeff

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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[Andrew Robertson]

Ha-Ha - yeah you tell Bill ... seriously - what a dumb removal that
was ... now I need to be add-in software to do a job that was catered
for before in 2000 and below!

Oh well - progress I suppose