Hyperlinks dont work...please help me

[Suki]

I have built a presentation for my company. It has aprox. 320
slides. Recently for some reason whenever I add a new button to
link to another slide it never works. This happens all the time
once I quit out of powerpoint. Its really weird because they work
as soon as you've made them & saved file, but once you quit out
of the application the link does nothing, its dead. When I reopen
the ppt file I have checked the button where I created the
hyperlink. It always says its linked to 'slide 1' , but it never goes
anywhere. (incidently I wanted it to link to slide 300) Is there a
setting which I have turned off? I am using a mac & this has
happended o me using both microsoft 2001 and now powerpoint
X. This is really frustrating. Please can someone help me.

Suki,

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have built a presentation for my company. It has aprox. 320
slides. Recently for some reason whenever I add a new button to
link to another slide it never works. This happens all the time
once I quit out of powerpoint. Its really weird because they work
as soon as you've made them & saved file, but once you quit out
of the application the link does nothing, its dead. When I reopen
the ppt file I have checked the button where I created the
hyperlink. It always says its linked to 'slide 1' , but it never goes
anywhere. (incidently I wanted it to link to slide 300) Is there a
setting which I have turned off? I am using a mac & this has
happended o me using both microsoft 2001 and now powerpoint
X. This is really frustrating. Please can someone help me.

PowerPoint sets aside a finite amount of space to store link information. Once
your links exceed this amount, weird things start happening, and it sounds like
you've entered the Twilight Zone with this presentation.

The sheer number of links is one factor; another is the amount of data each
link entails. For example, links to other slides within the presentation
include the text of the slide title; the longer your slide titles, the sooner
you'll use up the available link storage space.

 

[Suki]

Hi Steve, thanks for this. In properties, it says my current slide
titles say ' Powerpoint presentation'. If I made these shorter
woould this help + how do I do this. Also I experimented and cut
out 40 slides but the links of two of my buttons still didnt work.

What is the limit of links?

 

[Harvey Waxman]

I am using a mac & this has
happended o me using both microsoft 2001 and now powerpoint
X. This is really frustrating. Please can someone help me.

I tried linking just once and it worked fine but I didn't use a button. Have
you tried setting some text as link with a mouseover? That worked for me with
PP-OSX

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve, thanks for this. In properties, it says my current slide
titles say ' Powerpoint presentation'. If I made these shorter
woould this help + how do I do this.

This isn't something you'd have to look at properties for ... I'm talking about
the title text on each slide, the first line of text per slide that appears in
the Outline view next to each slide icon.

By making these shorter then possibly resetting the links, to the slides with
the shortened titles, it should help.

One trick: select the slide's title text, copy it, create a new text box using
the drawing tools and paste the title text into it. Format to match the slide
title. Then drag the REAL slide title off the slide and change it to something
like "42" for slide 42. Then drag the fake slide title to where the original
title was, and finally re-make the link to this slide.

What is the limit of links?

In the Windows versions of PPT, links and other (unspecified) things share a
32k chunk of data. Since we don't know what the other things are or how much
space they're likely to occupy (MS hasn't documented it) it's hard to say,
other than that 32k would seem to be a hard limit.