If PPTShape.Type = msoLinkedOLEObject Then 'Loop through each slide in the Presentation.įor Each PPTSlide In ActivePresentation.Slides
'Close the workbook and release it from memory.Īltogether here is how your code will look in order to update the links of all the different linked OLEObjects. So we will add this section of code: 'This will open the file as read-only, and will not update the links in the Excel file. Next, we want to open the workbook, update the link, and then close the workbook. Position = InStr(1, SourceFile, "!", vbTextCompare)įileName = Left(SourceFile, Position - 1) 'This will parse the source file so that it only includes the file name. 'We may need to parse the Source file because if it's linked to a chart, for example, we can get the following: Here is how we do that: 'Get the Source File of the shape. We need to parse the file so that way it removes the worksheet name and the chart name. However, to get the correct file name can be a little challenging if the object is a linked chart for example. If we don't open the workbook, I have had an instance where the update link process can easily take over 5 minutes. To fix the link issue, we are going to open the Excel workbook that the link is referring to in the background. So now that we've handled the pop-up let's fix your link issue. 'Create a new Excel Application, make it invisible, set the Excel Display alerts to False. If I add the following code we can turn off the displays for the Excel application: 'Declare Excel Variables In order to fix this, we need to create a reference to the Excel application. You're referring to the PowerPoint application, what you're meaning to do is to refer to the Excel application because I am assuming that the popup is happening there. When you wrote this line of code: Application.DisplayAlerts = False With that being said, let me explain why you're getting the Pop-up from the Excel application. Looking at your code, I am assuming all of this is being done from within the PowerPoint VBA editor. I want however for this do not happen if the file is open by someone else, but however I want it to automatically open the file for update as read-only. I have found that powerpoint opens an invisible excel aplication underneath it to update the links, however I could not grab this open instance with my vba and tell it to open the links readonly. Sub linkupdate()įor Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides The display alerts set to false will do nothing against it. This macro below will loop each linked object and update its link, however, if the file is currently open, it will pop a alert if I want to cancel, open read only or notify. So I would have to update manually each link so it will not crash. However, I if click in Update All Link, my powerpoint crashes, probably because the linked excel files are large. I want to update the links so my presentation as a whole is updated.
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