Re: Power Point should use relative paths when referring to animation.

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If by animation you mean a media file, simply put the media file in the same
folder as your presentation BEFORE you insert it on the slide. Send the
entire contents of the folder and your problems are solved.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team



"JohnU" <JohnU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When trying to share a power point presentation with other users, all of
the
> animations stop working. The reason is the animations a linked to the
> presentation using a full path name rather than a relative path name.
> Because the ppt presentation was developed in My Documents, the full path
> name is unique to my computer, and the copies of the ppt presentation will
> not be able to find the files even if the files exist on that persons
> machine. I do not want to force someone to have to install the
presentation
> in a particular directory, as this is ugly.

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