"PowerPoint can't create a hyperlink to" or message about hlink.dll
Problem
You see one of these error messages when you view a presentation:
- "hlink.dll" can't be loaded.
- PowerPoint failed to load "hlink.dll".
- PowerPoint couldn't create a hyperlink to [blank]
Solution
Microsoft describes this problem and suggested solutions to it here
A poster in the PowerPoint Newsgroup suggests installing the PowerPoint 97 viewer as an alternate way of restoring a good copy of hlink.dll
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