PowerPoint Links

[Guest]

I was wondering if it is possible to print links in PowerPoint. I get a lot
of PowerPoint documents with links to Word and Excel documents. Is there a
way for me to open up the PowerPoint document and print it as well as all of
the links in it?

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[Bill Dilworth]

You may benefit from looking at the FixLinks add-in, check
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/fixlinks/FAQ00011.htm


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[Steve Rindsberg]

I was wondering if it is possible to print links in PowerPoint. I get a lot
of PowerPoint documents with links to Word and Excel documents. Is there a
way for me to open up the PowerPoint document and print it as well as all of
the links in it?

Do you want to print a listing of the linked files or do you want to be able to
print the PPT slides and also print all of the contents of the linked files?

If the former, the free demo of our FixLinks add-in
(http://fixlinks.pptools.com) will generate a report in notepad that you can
print.

If the latter ... beats me. I've never heard of anything that does this.

 

[Guest]

I want to do the latter, print the content of the links, not the listing.

IE does something like that. When you go to print, click on the Option tab,
and there is a option for that, but there is no such option in PPT.

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Ah, so it does ... and thanks for the tip. I'd never had reason to use it, but
always figured it meant just the linked HTML files.

I don't think there's a way of doing anything similar in PPT short of writing macros
to make it happen. Otoh, depending on what you need to do, maybe an HTML version of
PPT would do the job (and let users print all the linked docs).

 

[Guest]

No it doesn't work. I've already tried turning my ppt it into a webpage,
and it will print links to websites, but not to documents.

How would you make a macro to do this?

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[Steve Rindsberg]

No it doesn't work. I've already tried turning my ppt it into a webpage,
and it will print links to websites, but not to documents.
Darn.

How would you make a macro to do this?

It'd be pretty elaborate. You'd have to collect all the links and action settings, work
out which of them are links to files. Then you'd have to work out which ones you Can
print ... can't do much with links to CAD files if you don't have AutoCad available on
the system. Of those, you'd need to either automate them (more code) or check to see if
they support printing from the command line.

It's pretty messy; definitely not a weekend project.