Microsoft KB Archive/190408

= PPT97: Unable to Link Only a Portion of a Presentation =

Article ID: 190408

Article Last Modified on 11/9/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition

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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.
 * 1) In PowerPoint, create a presentation and save it.
 * 2) Open the Word document you want to use as an OLE container.
 * 3) On the Insert menu, click Object.
 * 4) Click the Create From File tab.
 * 5) Click Browse.
 * 6) Open the folder that contains your presentation, and click the name of your presentation. Click OK.
 * 7) Click to select the Link To File check box.
 * 8) Click OK.

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