Action buttons have missing or changed hyperlinks

[motnoslo]

I have a group of students creating PowerPoint presentations on G4
laptops running Office v.X and have run into a few situations where
they set-up hyperlinks to other slides, save and close. When they
reopen the links are changed or point to slide 1.

Digging around, I see this is a known bug in various PC versions of
Powerpoint, where there is limited space for storing hyperlink
information. Does anyone know if this is the same bug on the mac
versions? If so, is it safe to assume that the workaround of linking
externally to the slides will work, too?

Thanks
Tom

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a group of students creating PowerPoint presentations on G4
laptops running Office v.X and have run into a few situations where
they set-up hyperlinks to other slides, save and close. When they
reopen the links are changed or point to slide 1.

Digging around, I see this is a known bug in various PC versions of
Powerpoint, where there is limited space for storing hyperlink
information. Does anyone know if this is the same bug on the mac
versions? If so, is it safe to assume that the workaround of linking
externally to the slides will work, too?

Unless your students are plugging in an *awful* lot of hyperlinks, I doubt it's
the same problem as on the PC. It takes quite a few links to trigger that
particular problem.

Have you tried applying all available updates to your copy of PPT though?
There've been linking problems in past updates, cured I believe in the most
recent updates.

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