Movie not found in XP

[Dick]

Using a Win98 Office97 version of PowerPoint I have an
avi movie "linked" on a slide. Both ppt and avi files in
the same folder. As a test, I move both files to a new
folder, run the movie and ppt finds the avi in the new
default location and saves the location if I say yes on
close.

Next test was to move the ppt and avi to a Windows XP pro
machine with PowerPoint 2002. There the "movie not
found" error occurs (unless I use th same folder name)
but the avi in the new default location is not found.

Is there a way to manually edit the avi location within
ppt? At least the Office97 version can re-locate it in a
default location but not Office XP? This would be a
typical problem encountered when taking a CD copy of a
ppt show to another computer for presentation.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Troy]

Linked movies are tricky to work with. You are many steps ahead of most, in
testing and discovering problems before distributing. The two best options
are:
1. PowerPoint 2003 will make all links relative (of course the downside is
you have to purchase PowerPoint 2003).
2. Fix Links Pro is an add-in that will make the links relative and it works
in all versions of PowerPoint. Here is a link to get all of the details.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/FAQ00035.htm

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[Sonia]

And we have PowerLink that will also fix the links.
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/powerlink.htm