PPT97: Unable to Link Only a Portion of a Presentation (190408)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q190408 SYMPTOMS
If you select several slides in a presentation and copy them, you cannot
use the Paste Link command to paste the slides into Word or Microsoft
Excel (the Paste Link button is unavailable). However, if you select a
single slide in a presentation and copy it, you can use the Paste Link
command.
CAUSE
PowerPoint can provide two types of OLE objects: slides and presentations.
A slide object is a single slide; a presentation object is a group of
slides.
You can link a slide object to an OLE container document, but you cannot
link a presentation object unless that presentation object contains
every slide in the presentation.
RESOLUTION
If you want to link an entire PowerPoint presentation to another document,
follow these steps.
NOTE: The following procedure is specific to Microsoft Word. However, you
can follow similar steps with other programs.
- In PowerPoint, create a presentation and save it.
- Open the Word document you want to use as an OLE container.
- On the Insert menu, click Object.
- Click the Create From File tab.
- Click Browse.
- Open the folder that contains your presentation, and click the name
of your presentation. Click OK.
- Click to select the Link To File check box.
- Click OK.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/9/2000 |
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| Keywords: | kbinterop kbprb KB190408 |
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