editing movie links in PP2003

[Bob]

Is it possible to change the link to a movie in a powerpoint presentation?

I have a customer (I do networking, O/S and hardware so this isn't really up
my alley) who saved all his media files on his laptop's desktop. Needless to
say, he's now in a position where there isn't room on his desktop for any
new icons. Sadly I cannot just rationalize his desktop moving the media
files to another location as then of course his powerpoint presentation no
longer work. The presentations with media are too large to fit on a CD and
his laptop doesn't have a DVD burner.

Not having any experience with Powerpoint I figured it shouldn't be too hard
to edit the links to reflect any change in the media files location. This
doesn't seem to be the case as everything I've googled draws a blank
regarding changing the link within the presentation.

Can it be done or does he have to redue his presentations??

Bob

 

[Guest]

You can batch this with ba see: http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00773.htm

 

[Austin Myers]

http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/FAQ00011.htm

Just what you are looking for.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Bob,

The link John provided should do the job. On that page, there's another link
to our commercial FixLinks PPT add-in. If you don't want to mess with VBA or
need to fix lots of files, the add-in can help. It automates everything for
you. In fact, you could put all of the user's PPT files in a directory, copy
the media files there as well then run FixLinks on each presentation to
re-direct the links to the media files in the folder.