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> I have read the earlier posts about finding the hidden Edit Links command,
> and understand that it supposedly only appears when there are links, but ...
> I right click on a chart in a PowerPoint slide, click on Edit Data and get
> message, "The linked file is not available. Use the Edit links command to
> find the file". BUT, the Edit Links command still does not appear under
> Prepare.

Is this an MSGraph chart? If so, it'd be an embedded object rather than a
linked one (so as far as PPT is concerned, there's no link). But the data in
the chart object might be linked to an Excel sheet that's not available.


> Also in the same PPT file, I have another chart that was created within PPT,
> so there is no external file. When I use Edit Data, a spreadsheet window
> opens and shows clearly the original data is correct but the plotting just
> does not correspond. I dont seem to have any options but just delete the
> chart and start over gain. Suggestions ?
'Original Source: The Code Cage Forums http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/powerpoint-formatting/110846-edit-links-still-major-problem.html#post396979

Not off top of head, but since you offered to send the file, I'll offer to have
a peek at it. Email to steve at-sign pptools dot com, attach the file and
PLEASE quote back this message in full. My hair has sucked too much gray out of
the inside of my head. ;-)

> PPT12 took away a lot of the tools and control interfaces we had in PPT11,
> especially regarding charts, and they are obviously needed both for regular
> use of the program and to investigate such "special" (buggy) behavior. Any
> chance we'll get them back, along with lots of fixes in Office14 ? I'd stick
> with Office11 if I could, but my clients won't.

MS hasn't announced anything about Office 14 features yet, so there's no story
to tell.

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