Edit/Links

[Guest]

I'm inserting links to images from a network drive and using an add-in to
break those links (and embed image) at a later time. I'm hoping to use the
Edit/Links menu to manage where those files are located as it changes over
time.

Problem: The Edit/Links menu is not activated (is greyed out).

I've tried inserting the files multiple ways but nothing has worked. The
menu will activate if I insert, say, a portion of an Excel spreadsheet, but
not if I try to paste in a slide or image/object from PowerPoint or my
preferred method of Insert Link after copying from Windows Explorer folder.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm inserting links to images from a network drive and using an add-in to
break those links (and embed image) at a later time. I'm hoping to use the
Edit/Links menu to manage where those files are located as it changes over
time.

Problem: The Edit/Links menu is not activated (is greyed out).

Yep. That menu item refers to OLE links but doesn't help with simple file
pointer links like you get with linked images, movies and sounds.

There are several other add-ins available that allow you to edit the actual
link manually. That'd be tedious but it might help.

Our inexpensive StarterSet Plus (http://starterset.pptools.com) includes a tool
that does this and more.

There's a VBA macro to do the same thing here:

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

 

[Guest]

It's actually your demo version of FixLinks that I'm working with.

First question is this, does 'The PPTools Starter Set Plus includes a tool
that allows you to edit individual links' mean that you have to go page by
page and run the macro to point to a new file path or can it review an entire
presentation at once?

Second, the project I'm working on will be repeated for multiple countries.
The naming convention of the image file names will be similar. Is there a
way to find a similar file name rather than an exact match? For example, in
Germany a .wmf file might be called 36C04 and in Austria be 38C04. I would
not want it to find/insert 38C040, however.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

It's actually your demo version of FixLinks that I'm working with.

First question is this, does 'The PPTools Starter Set Plus includes a tool
that allows you to edit individual links' mean that you have to go page by
page and run the macro to point to a new file path or can it review an entire
presentation at once?

The tool in Starter Set Plus is a simple one; it lets you retype paths to linked
files for any selected shape/shapes on a slide.

Between it and the GoTo and Report tools in the free FixLinks demo, it's an
inexpensive way to fix up a presentation manually. Or by using the macro in the
link I mentioned earlier, the whole deal is free.

To fully automate the fixup, you'd need FixLinks or some other tool.

Second, the project I'm working on will be repeated for multiple countries.
The naming convention of the image file names will be similar. Is there a
way to find a similar file name rather than an exact match? For example, in
Germany a .wmf file might be called 36C04 and in Austria be 38C04. I would
not want it to find/insert 38C040, however.

Using Starter Set Plus, you can reset the link to any file you like. It's just a
bit of text that you can edit. FixLinks lets you browse to locate missing files and
you're able to choose a different filename if you like.

I'd probably approach it differently; if possible, I'd have a different folder for
each country but give the images the same names. If your image link points to
ABCD.WMF in the same folder as the PPT, all you'd need to do is copy the
\Austria\ABCD.WMF into the folder instead to change the presentation to the Austrian
version