PowerPoint is a great way to organize and display excel information. With linking, all you have to do is update the excel file and your PowerPoint presentation updates automatically.
But what happens when you move from Office 2003 to Office 2007 and all of your excel links to PowerPoint presentations break? First, you cry. Then you install the Office 2007 service pack.
Links to Excel items may break:
Error message when you try to update a link in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation: “Some linked files were unavailable and can’t be updated”. By the way, the articles in these links sometimes refer to Excel “binary” files. That just means an Excel 97-2003 format file. In other words, all of the files you ever saved from Excel (or PowerPoint or Word) until now.
FIXED in Service Pack 2. See Office 2007 Service Packs.
MS has published a hotfix for this problem
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