I have copied from somewhere in the internet community this wonderful macro which could update links from Excel to PPT presentation. However, the macro will sometimes keep looking for the old links before it will update with the new links and this is causing team member from other countries to have problem updating the links after saving the Excel (send by me) to their local drive.
Example:
I save my Excel and PPT locally. Linked Excel tables/charts to PPT (via Paste --> Paste Special --> Paste Link).
Path of files as follows:
C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\Excel.xlsm
C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\PPT.pptm
I distribute the files to different countries to update the Excel & PPT with their local sales outlook. Say they save the files locally:
C:\Taiwan\Excel_TW.xlsm
C:\Taiwan\PPT_TW.pptm
When the countries try to update the links from Excel to PPT (Excel_TW.xlsm --> PPT_TW.pptm) based on what I sent them via email using the macro below, sometimes, the macro will look for the old links (C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\Excel.xlsm instead of just updating the ppt with the new links C:\Taiwan\Excel_TW.xlsm). This will cause the update to end up Not Responding because the "old" links are in my local drive.
Would appreciate if someone could tell me what needs to be changed in the codes below to stop the macro from looking for "old" links (C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\Excel.xlsm) and just replace old links with new links
\Taiwan\Excel_TW.xlsm)
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Here's the codes:
Sub division()
UserForm1.Show
End Sub
Sub ChangeExcelSource()
'Stop
Dim i As Integer
Dim k As Integer
' Create a variable to store the worksheet reference string.
Dim linkname As String
' Create a variable to store the position of the worksheet
' reference in the .SourceFullName property of the OLEFormat
' object.
Dim linkpos As Integer
' Set a For loop to go from slide 1 to the last slide in the
' presentation.
For i = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
' Select the slide based on the index value.
With ActivePresentation.Slides(i)
' Loop through all the objects on slide.
For k = 1 To .Shapes.Count
' Use only shapes on the slide.
With .Shapes(k)
' If the shape's type is an OLE object then...
If .Type = msoLinkedOLEObject Then
' Change the path to new source and set the update
' type to Automatic. First find where the worksheet
' reference is, and then store it in linkname. Next
' assign the new path and concatenate the chart name
' to the end of the path.
With .LinkFormat
' Find where in the source path string the
' character "!" occurs, and assign the position
' to the variable linkpos.
linkpos = InStr(1, .SourceFullName, "!", _
vbTextCompare)
' Assign linkname to worksheet reference at the
' end of the source file path.
linkname = Right(.SourceFullName, _
Len(.SourceFullName) - linkpos)
.SourceFullName = "G:\BusUnits\BPA\Monthly Operations Report - Support Worksheet.xls!" & linkname
.AutoUpdate = ppUpdateOptionAutomatic
End With
End If
End With
Next k
End With
Next i
' Update all links in the presentation, so that the changes are
' visible and the source file locations are correct on the screen.
ActivePresentation.UpdateLinks
End Sub
Example:
I save my Excel and PPT locally. Linked Excel tables/charts to PPT (via Paste --> Paste Special --> Paste Link).
Path of files as follows:
C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\Excel.xlsm
C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\PPT.pptm
I distribute the files to different countries to update the Excel & PPT with their local sales outlook. Say they save the files locally:
C:\Taiwan\Excel_TW.xlsm
C:\Taiwan\PPT_TW.pptm
When the countries try to update the links from Excel to PPT (Excel_TW.xlsm --> PPT_TW.pptm) based on what I sent them via email using the macro below, sometimes, the macro will look for the old links (C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\Excel.xlsm instead of just updating the ppt with the new links C:\Taiwan\Excel_TW.xlsm). This will cause the update to end up Not Responding because the "old" links are in my local drive.
Would appreciate if someone could tell me what needs to be changed in the codes below to stop the macro from looking for "old" links (C:\Data_Cluster\Asia\2014\Excel.xlsm) and just replace old links with new links
\Taiwan\Excel_TW.xlsm)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's the codes:
Sub division()
UserForm1.Show
End Sub
Sub ChangeExcelSource()
'Stop
Dim i As Integer
Dim k As Integer
' Create a variable to store the worksheet reference string.
Dim linkname As String
' Create a variable to store the position of the worksheet
' reference in the .SourceFullName property of the OLEFormat
' object.
Dim linkpos As Integer
' Set a For loop to go from slide 1 to the last slide in the
' presentation.
For i = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
' Select the slide based on the index value.
With ActivePresentation.Slides(i)
' Loop through all the objects on slide.
For k = 1 To .Shapes.Count
' Use only shapes on the slide.
With .Shapes(k)
' If the shape's type is an OLE object then...
If .Type = msoLinkedOLEObject Then
' Change the path to new source and set the update
' type to Automatic. First find where the worksheet
' reference is, and then store it in linkname. Next
' assign the new path and concatenate the chart name
' to the end of the path.
With .LinkFormat
' Find where in the source path string the
' character "!" occurs, and assign the position
' to the variable linkpos.
linkpos = InStr(1, .SourceFullName, "!", _
vbTextCompare)
' Assign linkname to worksheet reference at the
' end of the source file path.
linkname = Right(.SourceFullName, _
Len(.SourceFullName) - linkpos)
.SourceFullName = "G:\BusUnits\BPA\Monthly Operations Report - Support Worksheet.xls!" & linkname
.AutoUpdate = ppUpdateOptionAutomatic
End With
End If
End With
Next k
End With
Next i
' Update all links in the presentation, so that the changes are
' visible and the source file locations are correct on the screen.
ActivePresentation.UpdateLinks
End Sub
