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Re: XP Office PowerPoint

Feb 3, 2010 1:24AM PST

I am trying my first Power Point project and having an issue I hope someone can help me with.
As we all get .pps files emailed to us to watch I thought I would try my own and send to family and friends.
I have all my pictures in and sized to keep the end file small and now running into a problem with my .wav file I want in my presentation.
I followed all the help hints Microsoft offers and I cannot get the file in the presentation to that when emailed the sound file plays on the computer that is receiving my email.
I have tried linking and embedding the file as well in separate files on the same presentation and neither one will play on another computer but works fine on mine and I may ad flawlessly.

SO! HELP what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks

Jim

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sound and powerpoint presentations
Feb 8, 2010 4:20AM PST

You can't embed sounds, but always must link them. The way to do what you want to do is to make sure that the Powerpoint file that you are working on AND the sound file that you want to play are in the same folder on your machine. Create the link in your powerpoint. Then when you email the PPS/PPT file, be sure to also send the audio file. Be sure to tell your friend to save both files to the same folder on their machine. The audio link should then work. Make sense?

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Re: XP Office PowerPoint
Feb 8, 2010 5:31AM PST

Thanks, but actually after being on a MS forum board. What worked was converting the mp3 with an ap called CDEX making the mp3 a wav file and the same size, as wav is usually larger. I inserted the wav file into my slide show, saved it as .pps and VOILA one complete file that worked perfectly. And within emailing size.
I was almost right in the way I was attempting to do it but one little setting makes all the difference. Also the default size for the audio had to be changed from 100kb to 50000 kb.