You cannot save changes to hyperlink settings in PowerPoint (249209)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
This article was previously published under Q249209 SYMPTOMSIf you add or make a change to a hyperlink setting in a
large Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, the changes that you made are not retained when
you reopen the file. CAUSE PowerPoint stores the hyperlink information in the Document
Summary storage area of the presentation. This storage area has a limit of 64
KB. The Document Summary storage contains all the document properties, custom
properties, references, and other similar data.
Because the Document
Summary storage is used by different aspects of the presentation, there is a
finite number of hyperlinks that can be stored in presentation. This is
compounded by the fact that the longer the text is for a hyperlink that you
have to store, the fewer you can store.
Theoretically you can store
upward of 32 KB of characters in the Document Summary, which translates to
approximately 6,500 words. More than half of this is already allocated to
dedicated Document Summary items. After the free space is used, no more can be
allocated to the presentation. STATUSFor hyperlinks that you create to other slides, slide
titles, or a custom show within a presentation, Microsoft has confirmed that
this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of
this article.
For hyperlinks that you create to sites external to the
presentation, this problem no longer occurs in PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint
2003.
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