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I recovered an old .ppt but unfortunately there are many images not
displaying in the slides. Unfortunately I can't remind whether they were inserted or linked, anyway I can select them by clicking (their square frame appears). Does it mean they were linked? Unfortunately going in the menu "modify" the item "links" is not active. So they are inserted, aren't they? But then why don't they display? Is it possible to recover them? I only recall the .ppt was in a notebook running Win98 and I copied it on a PC running WinXP, but in both cases Powerpoint was the same (Office 2000) il barbi |
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il barbi
see Show me the link and let me edit it http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00433.htm cheers TAJ Simmons Microsoft Powerpoint MVP awesome - powerpoint templates, http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com powerpoint backgrounds, free samples, ppt tutorials... "il barbi" wrote in message ... I recovered an old .ppt but unfortunately there are many images not displaying in the slides. Unfortunately I can't remind whether they were inserted or linked, anyway I can select them by clicking (their square frame appears). Does it mean they were linked? Unfortunately going in the menu "modify" the item "links" is not active. So they are inserted, aren't they? But then why don't they display? Is it possible to recover them? I only recall the .ppt was in a notebook running Win98 and I copied it on a PC running WinXP, but in both cases Powerpoint was the same (Office 2000) il barbi |
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Hi il barbi
Are you running 2000 now? Broken links would normally show as a red X If it is 2003 are you up to date with service packs? -- Amazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk "il barbi" wrote: I recovered an old .ppt but unfortunately there are many images not displaying in the slides. Unfortunately I can't remind whether they were inserted or linked, anyway I can select them by clicking (their square frame appears). Does it mean they were linked? Unfortunately going in the menu "modify" the item "links" is not active. So they are inserted, aren't they? But then why don't they display? Is it possible to recover them? I only recall the .ppt was in a notebook running Win98 and I copied it on a PC running WinXP, but in both cases Powerpoint was the same (Office 2000) il barbi |
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"TAJ Simmons" ha scritto
nel messaggio ... il barbi see Show me the link and let me edit it http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00433.htm thank you, now I see the links, the linked images exist and are in the correct directories but they do not display...:-( il barbi |
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"il barbi" ha scritto nel messaggio
... "TAJ Simmons" ha scritto nel messaggio ... il barbi see Show me the link and let me edit it http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00433.htm thank you, now I see the links, the linked images exist and are in the correct directories but they do not display...:-( il barbi sorry the last post was wrong, indeed the directory was NOT correct and now by replacing it I can see the images Now I have some questions: 1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so when displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not display? (by comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form so there is no problem when displacing the .ppt) 2) the macro you kindly signalled (free) would not allow to change the link (they say only the commercial version can do it), yet I tried it and I got VBA error but anyway the link was changed and the image displayed correctly 3) in order to bypass such problem, is it possible to embed all images that are currently linked, possibly without being forced to edit them one by one? Note that many have an associated animation so if I try "cancel + insert embedded" the animation will disappear and I'm forced to recreate it manually il barbi |
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1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so when displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not display? (by comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form so there is no problem when displacing the .ppt) I believe if you put the images in the same folder as your .ppt file Then powerpoint should find the pictures. 2) the macro you kindly signalled (free) would not allow to change the link (they say only the commercial version can do it), yet I tried it and I got VBA error but anyway the link was changed and the image displayed correctly email the author regarding this. 3) in order to bypass such problem, is it possible to embed all images that are currently linked, possibly without being forced to edit them one by one? Note that many have an associated animation so if I try "cancel + insert embedded" the animation will disappear and I'm forced to recreate it manually I believe one of the add-ins from pptfaq.com does have such a feature (but I could be wrong) - of changing the linked images to embedding images. Cheers TAJ |
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There's a free add in here that will do what you want BUT it's wrotten for
2000. It will still work but only animations present in 2000 will be preserved, others will become appear animations. If you want all the pics to have the same animation it (probably) wouldn't be hard to search for pics with appear and change them to eg fade Something like this Sub swap_anim() Dim osld As Slide Dim oshp As Shape Dim oeff As Effect For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides For Each oshp In osld.Shapes If oshp.Type = msoPicture Then Set oeff = osld.TimeLine.MainSequence.FindFirstAnimationFor(o shp) If oeff.EffectType = msoAnimEffectAppear _ Then oeff.EffectType = msoAnimEffectFade End If Next Next End Sub -- Amazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk "il barbi" wrote: "il barbi" ha scritto nel messaggio ... "TAJ Simmons" ha scritto nel messaggio ... il barbi see Show me the link and let me edit it http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00433.htm thank you, now I see the links, the linked images exist and are in the correct directories but they do not display...:-( il barbi sorry the last post was wrong, indeed the directory was NOT correct and now by replacing it I can see the images Now I have some questions: 1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so when displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not display? (by comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form so there is no problem when displacing the .ppt) 2) the macro you kindly signalled (free) would not allow to change the link (they say only the commercial version can do it), yet I tried it and I got VBA error but anyway the link was changed and the image displayed correctly 3) in order to bypass such problem, is it possible to embed all images that are currently linked, possibly without being forced to edit them one by one? Note that many have an associated animation so if I try "cancel + insert embedded" the animation will disappear and I'm forced to recreate it manually il barbi |
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"TAJ Simmons" ha scritto
nel messaggio ... il barbi 1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so when displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not display? (by comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form so there is no problem when displacing the .ppt) I believe if you put the images in the same folder as your .ppt file Then powerpoint should find the pictures. ok I fixed it all namely I found the .ppt was displaced with respect to the unique pathname of the links of the images, so I moved there the .ppt and all worked. Moreover I ran the macro and changed all pathnames to relative, the macro ended with VBA error anyway did what it had to do and now I'm able to move all over the HD my .ppt and images and all displays correctly Many thanks for the macro il barbi |
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sorry the last post was wrong, indeed the directory was NOT correct and now by replacing it I can see the images Now I have some questions: 1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so when displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not display? (by comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form so there is no problem when displacing the .ppt) That's correct. PowerPoint's links to images are absolute(ly stupid). 2) the macro you kindly signalled (free) would not allow to change the link (they say only the commercial version can do it), yet I tried it and I got VBA error but anyway the link was changed and the image displayed correctly I think you're confusing the information at the top of the page about our commercial FixLinks add-in and what it'll do with the information about the macro on the page. 3) in order to bypass such problem, is it possible to embed all images that are currently linked, possibly without being forced to edit them one by one? Yes. The free FixLinks demo will do that http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/ It doesn't do it by default, though. You'll need to follow the instructions he TIP: How to embed linked images http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/FAQ00032.htm Note that many have an associated animation so if I try "cancel + insert embedded" the animation will disappear and I'm forced to recreate it manually il barbi ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so when displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not display? (by comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form so there is no problem when displacing the .ppt) I believe if you put the images in the same folder as your .ppt file Then powerpoint should find the pictures. As a rule, no. It's possible they fixed this in PPT 2007 though. It's broken in all previous versions, as far as I know. I believe one of the add-ins from pptfaq.com does have such a feature (but I could be wrong) - of changing the linked images to embedding images. As a rule, yes. g ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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