Did i reach a limit in the number of links? whats the best way to

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I'm working on a presentation which at the moment has almost reached 900
slides and has thousands of links in it, the core of it are 262 slides, which
each have 4 to five different ways to access them, and from which other
slides branch off, its not a lineal presentation, but is completely
controlled by links to other slides of the presentation. What happened now
though is that as i finished linking all the pages up, many of the links I
had done before stopped working, and as i fixed those, others stopped
working, so I'm guessing there is some sort of limit. Now, I could just
split the presentation into two, but that would mean having to re-do
thousands of links all over again, is there any way of making these links
fit, or maybe exporting part of the presentation to a new one without losing
the links, in other words, that the links in the pages I move to another will
automatically still link to the original presentation, considering that since
the presentation isn't lineal, its all interconnected and interwieved in a
way that is even a little hard for me to keep grasp of?
 
Rmolina adg said:
I'm working on a presentation which at the moment has almost reached 900
slides and has thousands of links in it, the core of it are 262 slides, which
each have 4 to five different ways to access them, and from which other
slides branch off, its not a lineal presentation, but is completely
controlled by links to other slides of the presentation. What happened now
though is that as i finished linking all the pages up, many of the links I
had done before stopped working, and as i fixed those, others stopped
working, so I'm guessing there is some sort of limit.
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Bingo. Got it in one. There's a limit to the amount of space PPT allows for
link storage and it sounds like you've exceeded it.
Now, I could just
split the presentation into two, but that would mean having to re-do
thousands of links all over again, is there any way of making these links
fit, or maybe exporting part of the presentation to a new one without losing
the links, in other words, that the links in the pages I move to another will
automatically still link to the original presentation, considering that since
the presentation isn't lineal, its all interconnected and interwieved in a
way that is even a little hard for me to keep grasp of?
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Do you have a lot of slides with really long titles? Links between slides
include the title text, so if the titles are long, that can put you over the
limit faster than just about anything else.

Have a look here:
Convert slide titles to shapes to solve hyperlink limit problems
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00683.htm

If shortening up the titles is enough to do the job, it might save you having to
split the presentation.
 
thank you for your reply, i added the code like the website said, im not
sure how much it works though, is there anyway that i can see how much
space i have to work with, i mean, how close or past i am of such a limit?
maybe another way to work around it? I appreciate your help very much, i
need to get this presentation working urgently.
 
thank you for your reply, i added the code like the website said, im not
sure how much it works though, is there anyway that i can see how much
space i have to work with, i mean, how close or past i am of such a limit?
maybe another way to work around it? I appreciate your help very much, i
need to get this presentation working urgently.
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To get a *very* rough idea, download our FixLinks demo. It has a links report
feature that adds up the length of the various links. While the theoretical limit is
32k, that may include other undocumented information as well as links; I'd start to
be cautious once the amount reported by FixLinks gets over 20 or 24kb.

And if nothing else, it'll give you a list of the links you need to fix if you bust
up the presentation. In fact, it may be able to show you which ones break and which
don't when you do that.
 
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