How to unlink pictures in Powerpoint Presentation

[Guest]

I have a powerpoint presentation (ppt) file made using pp97. The problem is
that I linked all the files when I created it.

I have at least been able to analyse the ppt file in a hex editor to
determine the names of the original files (there's no apparent way to find
out the failed link in powerpoint itself, if there is please tell me).

Now that I've managed the impossible, I want to simply "UNLINK" all these
hard references to JPG files on my hard drive. That is, I want to resave the
ppt presentation with the jpg pictures all *embedded* to remove the obvious
problem that no one else has my jpgs in the samelocation on their hard drive.

Can anyone help me resume my ppt presentation from being useless and simply
tell me how to embed the pictures that are referenced.

I now have powerpoint2000 installed and I have tried right-clicking
everywhere to no avail. The 'Links' menu item on the edit menu is constantly
disabled so I've no idea what to do.

 

[Michael Koerner]

This should help.

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm



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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


I have a powerpoint presentation (ppt) file made using pp97. The problem is
that I linked all the files when I created it.

I have at least been able to analyse the ppt file in a hex editor to
determine the names of the original files (there's no apparent way to find
out the failed link in powerpoint itself, if there is please tell me).

Now that I've managed the impossible, I want to simply "UNLINK" all these
hard references to JPG files on my hard drive. That is, I want to resave the
ppt presentation with the jpg pictures all *embedded* to remove the obvious
problem that no one else has my jpgs in the samelocation on their hard drive.

Can anyone help me resume my ppt presentation from being useless and simply
tell me how to embed the pictures that are referenced.

I now have powerpoint2000 installed and I have tried right-clicking
everywhere to no avail. The 'Links' menu item on the edit menu is constantly
disabled so I've no idea what to do.

 

[Guest]

This should help.

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm

Thanks for your effort, but the only serious advice apart from "don't do it
in the first place" in the link supplied, is to round-trip to Word and back
to Powerpoint.

I tried this and the results would have looked better if I'd asked my cat to
run over the keyboard while I inserted a few bits of text and pictures at the
same time. Utter, complete, comprehensive, disaster. No exaggeration about
it. None of the pictures actually show, and the text appears, half mangled,
half-deleted all over random parts of the screen.

So, indeed it's impossible it seems.
That there is no way to simply 'change' a link in powerpoint is a surprising
omission.
Do developers not think that people who make slides might ever change their
mind?

 

[Michael Koerner]

Have you tried the Macro mentioned in the reference. I just right click on my
hyperlinks and select edit hyperlink.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

This should help.

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm

Thanks for your effort, but the only serious advice apart from "don't do it
in the first place" in the link supplied, is to round-trip to Word and back
to Powerpoint.

I tried this and the results would have looked better if I'd asked my cat to
run over the keyboard while I inserted a few bits of text and pictures at the
same time. Utter, complete, comprehensive, disaster. No exaggeration about
it. None of the pictures actually show, and the text appears, half mangled,
half-deleted all over random parts of the screen.

So, indeed it's impossible it seems.
That there is no way to simply 'change' a link in powerpoint is a surprising
omission.
Do developers not think that people who make slides might ever change their
mind?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

PowerPoint handles image links quite differently from the way it deals with OLE
and media file links, so most of the usual rules don't apply.

Visit http://fixlinks.pptools.com and download the free FixLinks demo.
It won't repair links to media files but will fix links to images.
There you have two options:

- Make the links pathless so that they'll work nearly all of the time so long
as the PPT and the images stay together in the same folder

- Break the links and embed the images (see "Can I embed images" on the url
above)

For either to work, you'll need to have the images themselves accessible to
PowerPoint when you run FixLinks.