Linking presentations

[Guest]

I followed the directions to link presentations and it worked fine on my
desktop PC with two different presentations. I copied all files in each of
the two directories onto separate disks using Package for CD. When I play the
presentations on my laptop, one works fine. For the other, I get the message
"PowerPont Viewer does not support opening linked or embedded objects."
What's up with that?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

I followed the directions to link presentations and it worked fine on my

desktop PC with two different presentations.

Is this from the help files of powerpoint ?

It sounds like you have embedded a presentation within another presentation.

When I play the presentations on my laptop, one works fine. OK

For the other, I get the message
"PowerPont Viewer does not support opening linked or embedded objects."
What's up with that?

'Other' as in the 'other' presentation OR on anOTHER PC ?

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[Guest]

Not from the PP help files, but from the site suggested on this board
("awesome pp backgrounds, linking tutorial..."). As I said, it worked with
one presentation, but not the other. And when I referred to other, I meant
the other presentation, both of which I moved to my laptop. Both
presentations (each in separate directiories with their own linking to other
presentations within those directories) work as they are supposed to on my
desktop.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

There's probably some difference in what you've linked to from one presentation
vs the other. By "linked objects" the message means things like links to Excel
or Word content. OLE links ... basically, anything you can see in the Edit,
Links dialog box.

 

[Guest]

Actually, the links were to a slide in another presentation. Same in both
cases.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Actually, the links were to a slide in another presentation. Same in both
cases.

You might want to download the free FixLinks demo at http://fixlinks.pptools.com and
run a report on each presentation then paste the results here.

That'd help sort this out, perhaps.