Need help maintaining links when buring a CD

[Shelley Meloche]

I have created a presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint
(Office 2000 Professional). In the main presentation I
created a slide with 4 hyperlinks to other presentations.
Everything runs wonderfully on my system, however, when I
burn a CD the hyperlinks change to my temperary directory
and all 5 presentations have to be installed on whoever I
give the disk to, and they have to physically edit the
hyperlinks to the new location of the links presentations.
How to I burn a CD to created an executable presentation
and retain the hyperlinks to the 4 seperate presentations.

 

[Sonia]

The full scoop is at:

LINKS BREAK when I move presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

Basically you'll have to delete your current links and then:

These steps are important to help ensure that your file links are "relative"
and will still
work when you transport your presentation to other systems.

1. Assemble all of the sounds, animations, narrations, movies, and any
other files you think you might use, into a single working folder on your
hard disk.

2. Open a new presentation and save it to the working folder. Then begin
adding files, links, etc. to the presentation.

3. Save often to protect your work.

4. Don't link to any file that does not already reside in your working
folder.

5. When your presentation is complete, save it to the working folder. Move
all files together when distributing to another system from the working
folder and keep them in a single folder on the new system or on a CD.
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
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Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003