I am converting lots of presentations from PPT 2003 (Windows) to PPT
2004 (Mac) and in the process and seeing the hyperlinks randomly drop
completely, or more commonly "pick up" a hyperlink from another button
(i.e. a home button that normally goes to a menu slide suddenly goes
to an external url from another button). These can be fixed, tested,
and saved but when the presentation is reopened they can be corrupt
again (sometimes not). I know about the 64K limit and purposely keep
slide names and presentations short. Most of the presentations are
only 10-15 slides and contain 10 links or so, most on master slides.
I know it is not the interm update that went out back in 2006 as that
was finally fixed two updates later.
To complicate things, many of the presentations use Turning
Technologies TurningPoint add-in and when the presentation is
converted all of the graphs run through metafile conversion. This does
not seem to affect whether links are corrupted though.
What I have noticed is that relative links (next slide, previous
slide, exit show) are never affected. It can affect and link that goes
to a specific slide, url, or custom show.
We create tens of thousands of slides for customers annually and this
is a real production nightmare. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
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