Microsoft KB Archive/113022

PPT: Links Not Duplicated When Objects Duplicated

PSS ID Number: Q113022 Article last modified on 05-16-1998

windows:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c == 

= SUMMARY =

If you make a copy of a linked object or a slide that contains a linked object, in PowerPoint for Windows, you do not get a copy of the link. This means that if you use the Links dialog box to change the source of one of the objects, the source is changed for all of the copies of the object because they are all updated from the same link.

For efficiency, PowerPoint stores all external objects (links, embedded objects, pictures, and so on) in a pool, which is associated with a document, not a slide. If a copy is made and pasted within the same document, the duplicate object is considered to be identical, and no second copy is made.

Both copies refer to the same item in the pool. If one of these objects is activated and then modified in its server, the objects become different. For example, you will now see two linked objects listed in the Edit Links dialog box.

This is done because the display formats (pictures) for objects can use large amounts of memory and disk space. As a result, PowerPoint tries to avoid duplication as much as possible. For example, let’s say you want to use the same photograph in several different slides (at different locations in each slide and maybe scaled differently too). If that bitmap increases the file size by 1 MB, and PowerPoint has to duplicate all of the data for the photograph each time you use it in the presentation, the file will become very large.

To avoid this problem, you can import the picture once and then copy the picture from one slide into the other slides, where it will be used. Now the file does not grow appreciably for each additional copy of the picture.

= Additional query words: 4.00 4.00a 4.00c winppt =

Keywords : kbusage Version : windows:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c Platform : WINDOWS Hardware : x86 Issue type : kbprb ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.