Hyperlinks "disappear"... why?

[John Corbett]

I'm working with PowerPoint 2000 and sending files to a user with PowerPoint
97. I recall, some years back, that PowerPoint had a problem with "too many
links." There's a small "cache" of some kind hidden inside PowerPoint 97
(2000 and newer, too?) that holds information about the file, including
links. The cache file is, I remember, 64 Kb in size, and only a portion of
that area is available for links information. Wasn't this problem been
solved at some point?

Does anyone have any info on this?

Thanks!
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[Kathryn Jacobs]

The answer you seek is on this PPT FAQ page (Its not really the one you want
to hear, but an answer none the less):
Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm

The problem was fixed in XP and 2003 for external links, but not for links
within the presentation. If your links are all within the presentation, you
probably want to break up the presentation into smaller pieces and do the
linking between the files instead of all in one file.

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