PowerPoint 2013 or PowerPoint 2010 stops working after you repair a presentation

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Symptoms

You receive an error in PowerPoint when you try to open a presentation. When you let PowerPoint repair the error it causes PowerPoint to crash or stop working. PowerPoint may also be blocking linked images or content.

Detailed error information
When you open a presentation that contains links to an OLE object in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 or PowerPoint 2010, you receive the following error message:

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If you click Repair, the repair finishes and you receive the following message:

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If you click OK, you receive the following security message:

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If you click Update Links, PowerPoint crashes or restarts. Additionally, you may receive the following error message:

Microsoft PowerPoint has stopped working

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

Additionally, if you open a presentation that contains a linked picture, you receive the following message where the picture used to be:

To help protect your privacy, PowerPoint has blocked automatic download of this picture.

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Workaround

Follow these simple steps to work around this issue:

When you are prompted to update links, do not click Update Links. Instead, click Cancel.

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On the File tab, click Save as, and then save the presentation into a different folder.

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On the File tab, click Close.

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On the File tab, click Open, and then open the new copy of the presentation.

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You are prompted to update the presentation links. Click Update Links.

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After PowerPoint finishes trying to update the links, you receive the following message:

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Click OK.
Click the File tab, and then click Edit Links to Files in the Related Documents area.

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In the Links dialog box, select the link that you want to reestablish, and then click one of the following:
- Update Now. Use this to update the link to the OLE object or picture file.
- Change Source. Use this to change the source location for the OLE object or picture file.
- Break Link. Use this to break the link to the source file for the OLE object. Before you can break the link to a picture file, you must reestablish the link. Then, you can embed the picture into the presentation.
Save the presentation after you have edited all the broken links in the presentation.