Power Ponit 2003 must relocate the broken link to a video file au.

[Dr.P.Nagabhushana Rao]

Dear Sir
If you can kindly follow these steps you would experience the problem
1. Create a PowerPoint 2003 presentation with a video link, save and close it.
2. Shift the video file to a different directory on a different drive.
3. Open the PowerPoint 2003 presentation and double click on the video
and experience my problem.

The best and most desirable feature in PowerPoint 2003 would be if it
can automatically search and link the moved video (and of course,
audio) file if a drive or directory is given for searching. (It should
check the subdirectories also). If it can track the movement of linked
files and re-link automatically, it will be a great help for all
presentations using videos, audios, Excel sheet graphs etc. This
feature will attract more and more people to use PowerPoint.

Alternately if the message "PowerPoint was unable to locate the linked
multimedia file C:\n\*.avi. Do you want to locate it yourself?"
appears, the problem will be solved in a time consuming way since each
file has to be manually re-linked.
Sincerely
Dr. P.Nagabhushana Rao

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Quick fix.....

if you always put any file (video/audio/excel) in the same folder/directory as your .PPT file

** BEFORE ** your insert/link to it...then powerpoint will automatically find it

even when your .ppt file ** and ** the other files (video/audio/excel) are moved.


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint 2003 does not have the same capability that earlier versions did
which allowed you to browse to locate media files when links had been
inadvertently broken.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide features for link management (fix, change, break, etc.) for more
than just OLE linked objects (without have to resort to VBA or 3rd party
add-ins), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft by either:

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