PP 2002 changes hyperlinks

[Lasse]

I have a presentation created in PP 97 with a lot of
hyperlinks, refering to both URL's and places within the
presentation. When I open the presentation in PP 2002, all
the hyperlinks which point to URL's have changed. Example:
A hyperlink showing the text "Personalhåndbok" refers to
http://anosa101/amaweb/AOS00126.nsf/pages/Start.html. When
I open the presentation in PP 2002, it refers to
http://anosa101/amaweb/AOS00128.nsf/e39dc07163d0a5a0c12565c
30044e7ca/e6d18eb4f98f0b8dc12569450021fac8?OpenDocument,
which is an alltogether different page. If I save the
presentation after opening it in PP 2002 - no matter which
format - the "new" hyperlinks stays. Does anyone know what
causes this behaviour?

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

I have a presentation created in PP 97 with a lot of
hyperlinks, refering to both URL's and places within the
presentation. When I open the presentation in PP 2002, all
the hyperlinks which point to URL's have changed. Example:
A hyperlink showing the text "Personalhåndbok" refers to
http://anosa101/amaweb/AOS00126.nsf/pages/Start.html. When
I open the presentation in PP 2002, it refers to
http://anosa101/amaweb/AOS00128.nsf/e39dc07163d0a5a0c12565c
30044e7ca/e6d18eb4f98f0b8dc12569450021fac8?OpenDocument,
which is an alltogether different page. If I save the
presentation after opening it in PP 2002 - no matter which
format - the "new" hyperlinks stays. Does anyone know what
causes this behaviour?

I can't swear that this is the problem, but it's a good starting point:

Earlier versions of PowerPoint have a limited amount of storage allocated to
hyperlinks.
If you have a lot of hyperlink data ( number of hyperlinks * length of
hyperlinks ) you can exceed that amount of storage, which can make your
links disappear or point to the wrong things.

This is supposed to be fixed in XP but since you could then create a
presentation that works in XP but still exceeds allowable hyperlink storage
capacity in earlier versions, there's got to be some kind of incompatibility
there, and moving a presentation back and forth would make it apparent.

Anything you can do to shorten the hyperlinks would probably help.
Our free FixLinks demo will give you a report of the approximate hyperlink
storage space used and will also give you some idea of which links use the
most data.
http://get.pptools.com

It's also possible that the presentation's gotten corrupted somehow.
Try saving to HTML then reopening the HTML in PPT and saving that to a new
name as a PPT file. Does the same problem occur?

 

[Lasse]

I can't swear that this is the problem, but it's a good
starting point:

Earlier versions of PowerPoint have a limited amount of storage allocated to
hyperlinks.
If you have a lot of hyperlink data ( number of hyperlinks * length of
hyperlinks ) you can exceed that amount of storage, which can make your
links disappear or point to the wrong things.

This is supposed to be fixed in XP but since you could then create a
presentation that works in XP but still exceeds allowable hyperlink storage
capacity in earlier versions, there's got to be some kind of incompatibility
there, and moving a presentation back and forth would make it apparent.

Anything you can do to shorten the hyperlinks would probably help.
Our free FixLinks demo will give you a report of the approximate hyperlink
storage space used and will also give you some idea of which links use the
most data.
http://get.pptools.com

It's also possible that the presentation's gotten corrupted somehow.
Try saving to HTML then reopening the HTML in PPT and saving that to a new
name as a PPT file. Does the same problem occur?

Well, I downloaded your (excellent) tool, and this is what
I found out: When the presentation is opened in PP2002, PP
changes the Autoshape Names (and e.g. Rectangle Names), so
the hyperlinks actually refers to the refering point of
another hyperlink. E.g.: Rectangle 1040 is renamed to
Autoshape 16. Actually, when I made a new text box with a
new hyperlink refering to my own website (still in the
presentation I have problems with), saved, and opened the
ppt in PP2002, my hyperlink refered to a Place in Document
instead. I wasn't able to save the presentation in HTML
(I'm not sure why, it just states that some of the slides
couldn't be saved in HTML), so that was a dead end. Please
help?

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Lasse,
When you run the HTML conversion, it creates jpegs and such for each slide
it can convert. Check the folder and see what is the last slide it
converted. The next slide usually has the error. By chance, is the first
slide not converted the one with your hyperlink?

Kathy Jacobs
(Who is working remotely this week, so doesn't have her normal sig set
up....)

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

Well, I downloaded your (excellent) tool, and this is what
I found out: When the presentation is opened in PP2002, PP
changes the Autoshape Names (and e.g. Rectangle Names), so
the hyperlinks actually refers to the refering point of
another hyperlink. E.g.: Rectangle 1040 is renamed to
Autoshape 16. Actually, when I made a new text box with a
new hyperlink refering to my own website (still in the
presentation I have problems with), saved, and opened the
ppt in PP2002, my hyperlink refered to a Place in Document
instead. I wasn't able to save the presentation in HTML
(I'm not sure why, it just states that some of the slides
couldn't be saved in HTML), so that was a dead end. Please
help?

Is there any chance that VBA/macros/an addin has named any of these shapes
at some point?

How large is the file, and does it contain proprietary information? I'd
like to get a look at it (the 2000 version, of course) or at a cut-down
version if it shows the same problems.

If this is possible, email me on steve at-sign rdpslides dot com

 

[Lasse]

Is there any chance that VBA/macros/an addin has named
any of these shapes

at some point?

How large is the file, and does it contain proprietary information? I'd
like to get a look at it (the 2000 version, of course) or at a cut-down
version if it shows the same problems.

If this is possible, email me on steve at-sign rdpslides dot com

I'm not aware of any macros or addins being used in the
presentation, but this might be the case, though I doubt
it. I e-mailed you the file (in both versions), I hope you
can make some sense of it.

Cheers )
- Lasse

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

How large is the file, and does it contain proprietary

information? I'd

I'm not aware of any macros or addins being used in the
presentation, but this might be the case, though I doubt
it. I e-mailed you the file (in both versions), I hope you
can make some sense of it.

Hi Lasse,

I got the file - thanks. It may be a bit before I get a chance to play with
it.