I have created several large PowerPoint’s that are timed to background music.
Regardless of weather I save them as a PPS or PPT the background music never
travels from the computer which the pps or ppt was created (the rest of the
creation works appropriately). I have places the background music on any
disk to which the pps/ppt is burned, and if the pps/ppt is e-mailed the music
does not travel, thus removing a vital element from the show. I believe the
same would be true for narration and movies.

Question: How do you create a PPS or PPT in which background music,
narration and movies can work appropriately within an e-mailed/burned
presentation?

Note: I understand that the ppt/pps cues my computer to play a give music
piece, so how do I make the location of the music universal to all
applications.

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"Matt H" <Matt (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have created several large PowerPoint's that are timed to background
>music.
> Regardless of weather I save them as a PPS or PPT the background music
> never
> travels from the computer which the pps or ppt was created (the rest of
> the
> creation works appropriately). I have places the background music on any
> disk to which the pps/ppt is burned, and if the pps/ppt is e-mailed the
> music
> does not travel, thus removing a vital element from the show. I believe
> the
> same would be true for narration and movies.
>
> Question: How do you create a PPS or PPT in which background music,
> narration and movies can work appropriately within an e-mailed/burned
> presentation?
>
> Note: I understand that the ppt/pps cues my computer to play a give music
> piece, so how do I make the location of the music universal to all
> applications.
>

Trying using the Package for CD utility found in PowerPoint. It tends
to be a lot friendlier about file locations if you use it, as long as
everything stays in the same folder. It creates a folder that you can
zip (www.winzip.com) up and send to people, which even includes a
viewer if they don't have powerpoint. Just make sure that you go into
options and check off that it should include linked files.

The Package for CD will even burn directly to a CD if you want it to.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Trying using the Package for CD utility found in PowerPoint.

....found in PowerPoint 2003, that is. Earlier versions of PPT don't have
this utility. They use Pack and Go, which is not quite as friendly.

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