A question about adding audio files

[Patrick Morris]

A question about adding audio files.

As I'm working on a large presentation, I've been experiencing a
problem as I add audio files. On playback some of the audios are not
playing. All the audios are WAV files (22K, 8 bit, mono – created in
Sound Forge). Tonight I noticed something I hadn't seen before. When
looking at the "custom animation" window I noticed that those slides
that played as programmed were referring to the WAVS as "Media" with a
number, and not the original WAV file name. And those slides that did
not playback listed the original name of the WAV file.

Can someone please explain what's going on here and how I can resolve
this issue. I'm way past my deadline and any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Note: All audio files currently reside in the same folder as the PPT
file.

 

[Patrick Morris]

Which version of PPT? I'm not seeing this in PPT2002 with embedded or
linked WAVs, with links working or deliberately broken. It may be that your
version's giving you the filenames of missing links in the custom animation
dialog box.

I'm using PPT2002

First, though, try this:

QUIT PowerPoint.
Restart it, then do File, Open and open your problem PPT file.
or
Doubleclick your PPT file to start PPT.

Don't choose the file from the most recently used list (the numberd files at
the bottom of the File menu) and don't choose from Recently Used Files in
the dialog box you may or may not get when starting PPT.

See if the links are better behaved.

No change.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Try the part you left out, then ... http://get.pptools.com and download the
FixLinks demo; run a report on the file and if it's not too long, post the
results here (ie, paste into a message, don't attach the file).

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