Microsoft KB Archive/938774

= Attendees cannot view the images when you link images to a PowerPoint presentation in a Live Meeting 2005 session =

Article ID: 938774

Article Last Modified on 11/12/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005

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SYMPTOMS
When you link images to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in a Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 session, attendees cannot view the images.



CAUSE
This issue occurs if the image file is inserted into the presentation slide as an msoLinkedPicture type object. PowerPoint stores a link to the msoLinkedPicture type object on the local hard disk drive. PowerPoint does not embed the image file in the presentation.

When the presentation is uploaded to Live Meeting 2005, the image files are not loaded, and the links to the msoLinkedPicture type object are broken.

If the image files are located in the same path on the presenter’s computer, the presenter may be able to view the images during the Live Meeting session. However, attendees cannot view the images.

Typically, this issue occurs if any linked object is used in a PowerPoint presentation.

Note You may not experience this issue in Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2003. Live Meeting 2003 does not use the PowerPoint display engine to display slides. Live Meeting 2003 displays only static Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images of the PowerPoint slide. However, Live Meeting 2005 uses the PowerPoint display engine to display slides. Live Meeting 2005 supports full PowerPoint transitions and animations.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, save the PowerPoint presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 95 format. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Open the presentation.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Save As, click PowerPoint 95 in the Save as type list, and then click Save.
 * 3) Exit PowerPoint.

When you save a presentation in PowerPoint 95 format, the resulting size of the presentation may be large. To resolve this issue, you can resave the file that was formatted in PowerPoint 95 in a newer version of PowerPoint. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Open the presentation on a computer that is running a version of PowerPoint that is later than PowerPoint 95.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Save As, click Presentation in the Save as type list, and then click Save.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, you can share a view of the PowerPoint presentation by using the application sharing feature in Live Meeting.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information about similar issues that occur in PowerPoint, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

285317 Linked images are not displayed when a PowerPoint presentation and images are moved to a new drive

827115 Linked images do not appear when the presentation and the images are moved to a new drive or folder in PowerPoint

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