Hyperlink Pictures Missing on Powerpoint 2000 file Opened in 2002

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I have a good sized presentation (120 slides 10mb) created in Powerpoint
2000. It has forward and back buttons on every page along with some buttons
to take you to key title slides in the presentation. It works perfectly in
Powerpoint2000 and through the IE plugin.

We have upgraded the users to Office 2002 and Powerpoint 2002 now displays
many of teh slides incorrectly. All the buttons are displayed with white
images on top. The white images contain the actions. Underneath are the
original images which display ok if the white objects are deleted, though
this then removes the hyperlinks. We therefore have to go through 120 slides
and recreate all the links and remove the white objects. Incidentally if you
choos web page preview under powerpoint 2002 the presentation is displayed
correctly, unfortunately there doesn't seem a way to get the original ppt
file working properly under Powerpoint 2002. Do you have any suggestions as
we have many presentations with the same problem.
 
I have a good sized presentation (120 slides 10mb) created in Powerpoint
2000. It has forward and back buttons on every page along with some buttons
to take you to key title slides in the presentation. It works perfectly in
Powerpoint2000 and through the IE plugin.

We have upgraded the users to Office 2002 and Powerpoint 2002 now displays
many of teh slides incorrectly. All the buttons are displayed with white
images on top. The white images contain the actions. Underneath are the
original images which display ok if the white objects are deleted, though
this then removes the hyperlinks. We therefore have to go through 120 slides
and recreate all the links and remove the white objects. Incidentally if you
choos web page preview under powerpoint 2002 the presentation is displayed
correctly, unfortunately there doesn't seem a way to get the original ppt
file working properly under Powerpoint 2002. Do you have any suggestions as
we have many presentations with the same problem.
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Weird. I don't think this one has come up here before.

One thing you might try is "round-tripping" the file to HTML then reopening it
in PPT2002.

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00526.htm

If you're stuck repairing the presentations, don't forget that you can add
action buttons to every slide by adding them to the Slide or Title master. You
don't really need to add them to the slides themselves.
 
Sounds to me as if the presentation has had transparent or semi-transparent
images placed on top of the "buttons." Since PPT 2000 doesn't have
transparency on drawn objects and PPT 2002 does, I assume, then, that the
transparent images are PNGs or TIFs created in an image editor.

That doesn't explain why they show up strangely in PPT 2002, though. Oh,
wait. I think that PPT 2002 had some odd transparency issues. I bet this is
one.

Have you applied all service packs to Office 2002? (I think there are 3 of
them.) I think that the SPs were supposed to resolve some of the
transparency issues. (See, for example,
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00323.htm )
 
Steve R
Thanks for the round tripping. I have done this with limited success. The
mht format improves things, displays correctly, and has some of the
hyperlinks working and some being ignored. Performance is slow in this
format. However, when opened in Power point and then saved as, the PPT file
picked up all the problems of the original.

Echo S
I have applied all available Office and XP service packs so am up-to-date
here.

Thanks for your help here, I'll play a little more with round tripping to
see if I can improve things.

Cheers

Sam
 
In fact the Mht behaves differently when opened in Powerpoint than when
opened in a browser. In the browser the funcationality would be acceptable
(though too slow) whereas powerpoint brings back in the errors.
 
Sam,

If you don't get anywhere with this, see if you can reduce the problem to a
presentation with just a few slides and maybe post it someplace where we can
download it and have a look.
 
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