PPTools FixLinks
PowerPoint is all about interactivity: hyperlinks, linked information and images, movies, sounds ... they all add life to your presentations.
But about those links ...
Everything's fine until you
- Move the linked files someplace else
- Burn the presentation to CD
- Transfer the presentation to another computer
- Copy it to a different network drive
- Email it to somebody
- Post it on the web
- Or do anything that changes the locationn of the presentation or the linked files
Then ... bad news. The links will break. Sounds don't play, images disappear, to be replaced by the dreaded Red X, linked Word, Excel, PDF and other files won't launch ... and just a whole bunch of other unhappiness.
Simply put, when you move the presentation, your links break.
FixLinks Pro is the glue you need to fix them
When you give your presentation the FixLinks Pro treatment before moving it to another computer or burning it to CD, FixLinks copies all the linked files to the same folder as your presentation file (or to a set of subfolders). Then it removes the path information from all of the links; when it's done, the links point directly to the files, without any drive and folder references.
That way, when you move the whole works -- PowerPoint file, sound and movie files and linked graphics files -- to another computer or burn a CD ...
THE LINKS DON'T BREAK!
What does FixLinks do?
When you run FixLinks on your PowerPoint presentation:
- It automatically copies all linked files into the same folder as your PowerPoint file. Optionally, it can copy linked files to subfolders instead; you could have it put all images in an \Images folder, media files in \Media and so on.
- It removes the full path from each link and relinks to just the filename of the linked file in the folder with your PowerPoint file.
- It fixes links to images. Optionally, you can have it convert linked images to embedded.
- It fixes links to sounds
- It fixes links to movies (AVI, etc)
- It fixes OLE linked content in any of several ways
- If it can't find a linked file where it's supposed to be, it asks you to locate the file using a standard Windows file dialog box. You browse to the file and select it, FixLinks copies it to the staging folder and resets the links.
- Once it's done, FixLinks shows you a report listing the links it found and tells you whether it was able to repair the link or not.
You can also run a links report to learn what links are in your presentation and where the linked files are.
Learn more, try it, buy it ...
Is FixLinks the Magic Pill that Cures All Ills?
No. FixLinks fixes links so they don't break in most circumstances, but even though the links are good, there are still reasons why linked files may not work.
What FixLinks won't do and What you can do about it tells you all about it.
