How to Define Relative Path?

Question

I have heard about relative paths and I think that they are of good use. But, I do not know how how to define a relative path. For instance, I have a Power Point presentation in which I use an audio (or video) during the slide show. I place these files (the presentation itself and the audio(/video)) in a folder. I would like to copy this folder to a removable drive so that I can use it in any system, but to achieve this, I should give the file name of the audio(/video) as relative path.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Save your presentation first and then save linked files to the same place you placed your presentation(same folder on the same disk). Your links will continue to work when you move presentation with the linked files.
You should put your files in the same folder as the saved presentation BEFORE linking to them.

Answer 2

For me I did this:

1. Open File
2. Export or Save&send or share
3. Package presentation for CD, if you have inserted videos or audio files to your PP move to step 5, they will be part of the presentation (as embedded files) automatically.
4. Keep your linked files here if they are setups, files.exe etc,
5. Copy to folder, that is.

Now you can keep it on USB flash and use it wherever you want.

Answer 3

The accepted answer doesn't work for me with office 2016.

Here's a workaround that did work for me: save the presentation with the added absolute hyperlink as .xml open with your editor of choice search the name of the file that you're linking in the target tag remove everything but file name and extension (assuming it's in the same folder) e.g.:

Target="myVideo.mp4"

save and open again in pp

Answer 4

Place all files to be used in a folder Create your powerpoint with one slide and save it to this folder - Critical step Add slides and links and save. Links should come up with just the filename, not the total path to the file.

Once this is done you should be able to move the whole folder without any problems.