hyperlinks broke down

[max]

Hi,

Presentation PP2003, lot's of hyperlinked buttons, all workling properly.
My client plays the presentation with PP2002, some hyperlinks are broke!?
They are not linked anymore, some of the hyperlinks still work perfect, others don't.

Any solutions are more then welcome.

Thanks all!

Max.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Presentations created in 2003 unless saved with backward compatibility will
not work properly in earlier versions.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


Hi,

Presentation PP2003, lot's of hyperlinked buttons, all workling properly.
My client plays the presentation with PP2002, some hyperlinks are broke!?
They are not linked anymore, some of the hyperlinks still work perfect,
others don't.

Any solutions are more then welcome.

Thanks all!

Max.

 

[max]

that's no solution because all animations will be gone when saved as an
earlier version

can there be another reason?

max.

 

[David Marcovitz]

Actually, there is very little difference between 2003 and 2002. There
is no need to save with any kind of backward compatibility. If you are
using newer features (most of which were introduced in 2002), then those
features might not work in earlier versions (these features include
multiple masters and many animations, not hyperlinks).

There are a number of reasons that hyperlinks can break. One big one is
that you have too many hyperlinks. PowerPoint has a limit on how much
space it has to store hyperlinks. If you exceed that limit (and there is
no warning for this), hyperlinks will break in weird ways (like what you
describe).

Two solutions for this are to shorten the links and to break the
presentation into 2 or 3 interlinked smaller presentations. Because
links include path names (for external links) and slide titles (for
internal links), you could try changing slide titles to something
shorter and relinking. This is not a great solution, but it can work,
especially if you are just over the link limit.

For more details, see:

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00401.htm

--David

 

[max]

thanks david!

Actually, there is very little difference between 2003 and 2002. There
is no need to save with any kind of backward compatibility. If you are
using newer features (most of which were introduced in 2002), then those
features might not work in earlier versions (these features include
multiple masters and many animations, not hyperlinks).

There are a number of reasons that hyperlinks can break. One big one is
that you have too many hyperlinks. PowerPoint has a limit on how much
space it has to store hyperlinks. If you exceed that limit (and there is
no warning for this), hyperlinks will break in weird ways (like what you
describe).

Two solutions for this are to shorten the links and to break the
presentation into 2 or 3 interlinked smaller presentations. Because
links include path names (for external links) and slide titles (for
internal links), you could try changing slide titles to something
shorter and relinking. This is not a great solution, but it can work,
especially if you are just over the link limit.

For more details, see:

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00401.htm

--David

--
David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[max]

i found this out!

this way you can make as many hyperlinks as you want

make a white rectangle (or square or whatever), make it white and
tranparancy 99%

put it over your text that needs to be hyperlinked and don't hyperlink the
text but the rectangle you made

i guess this will do the trick!

 

[David Marcovitz]

Well, this might or might not do the trick. These linked rectangles are
still hyperlinks and still count toward your total hyperlink capacity.
In fact, I doubt this will have any impact at all on your problem unless
you are replacing several hypertext links with one large rectangle.
--David

 

[John Wilson]

Exactly as David says.

The hyperlinks are stored as a string (Slide ID,Slide Index, Target slide
Title text) using a rectangle will not make a difference.

Extra couple of points:

Making the title shorter will help but only if you remake any link.

Anything you do must be BEFORE the links get broken. Once broken they are
broken for good

Presentations with many internal links will often work until you save them,
could this be what you see?.

AFAIK 2003/2002 act in the same way with hyperlinks
--

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