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'Packaging' a Powerpoint Presentation
Hello. I have three related questions (they're all ways to skin the same cat,
but answers to all three would be helpful): The problem is, I have a Powerpoint presentation with LOTS of audio and video clips (100 maybe), but the icons you click on to play them (in Action settings -- Run program) are scattered in several subdirectories. Which is fine since the subdirectories are organized into a hierarchical tree, but the problem is THE SUB-DIRECTORIES CONTAIN LOTS OF OTHER AUDIO AND VIDEO CLIPS WHICH ARE NOT PART OF THE PRESENTATION. How can I: 1. Automatically copy just the presentation with the clips it references to some other location while leaving the unreferenced clips behind. 2. Run a 'change all' command on all the URLs pointing to the clips from within Powerpoint to change the disk letter so that, e.g. instead of running from drive C as it currently does, the whole presentation could reside on some other disk drive. 3. Package up just the presentation and the clips it refers to into one big file (= object embedding instead of linking). And maybe we could add #4: 4. Package up just the presentation and the clips it refers to into one big file which could then expand into the full directory structure on some other site. (Actually, if #1 is possible, then Winzip could do this one. Thanks for your help! -- Peyton Todd |
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'Packaging' a Powerpoint Presentation
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wrote: Hello. I have three related questions (they're all ways to skin the same cat, but answers to all three would be helpful): The problem is, I have a Powerpoint presentation with LOTS of audio and video clips (100 maybe), but the icons you click on to play them (in Action settings -- Run program) are scattered in several subdirectories. Which is fine since the subdirectories are organized into a hierarchical tree, but the problem is THE SUB-DIRECTORIES CONTAIN LOTS OF OTHER AUDIO AND VIDEO CLIPS WHICH ARE NOT PART OF THE PRESENTATION. How can I: 1. Automatically copy just the presentation with the clips it references to some other location while leaving the unreferenced clips behind. 2. Run a 'change all' command on all the URLs pointing to the clips from within Powerpoint to change the disk letter so that, e.g. instead of running from drive C as it currently does, the whole presentation could reside on some other disk drive. You don't want to point to any specific disk drive, not if you need to move the files here and there. You want all the paths to be relative to the current PPT file's path; otherwise the links break too easily. The Package for CD command in PPT 2003 is supposed to do this for you. Our FixLinks addin does as well and offers a few higher end features, like letting you set alternate subpaths for media, images and such. http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/ 3. Package up just the presentation and the clips it refers to into one big file (= object embedding instead of linking). PowerPoint doesn't embed videos so this isn't really possible. An EXE that's really a self extracting ZIP would let it all sit in one file then explode into a single folder or set of subfolders though. And maybe we could add #4: 4. Package up just the presentation and the clips it refers to into one big file which could then expand into the full directory structure on some other site. (Actually, if #1 is possible, then Winzip could do this one. Thanks for your help! ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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