I need some help on a presentation that I am working on.

Let me give some background on what I am actually trying to do. I have a group of images that are being created and saved to a folder. I need to create an archive of these images in PPT for use at a later date. I am trying to automate the process of inserting them into the presentation.

These images will be deleted and then new images will be created at a later date using the same file names.

I am adding these images to my presentation using the Insert->Picture->From File->Link to File, so that all I have to do is open the presentation and the images will be there. Process is now automated, but...

Now here comes the tricky part. I need to save the presentation so that I have an archive of the images, but I want to break the links so that the next time I open the presentation, the original images are there instead of having PPT trying to get them in the folder mentioned above.

I have tried the insert Object route, but it won't work.

Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get PPT to do what I want?

arfaja,

As far as I can see you want to make a database of images that updates it self automatically when you replace a JPG file some were else?

Or insert it from a database inside the PowerPoint file?

As far as I know a file of a photo/image can’t be seen directly as an object, so you have to convert that photo/image to an object.

None of the above is a standard function in PowerPoint, but there can be written a script in Visual Basic but that goes beyond my knowledge…

puntoMX thanks for the hlep. Visual Basic for Applications is an option, but I was hoping to avoid that route.

I found a workaround for my problem. It can be seen here: http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00047.htm

Thanks for the help.

arfaja, Thank you for this information.