Deleting old sound files

[tkcollette]

There are a number of posts about sound files, however, they do not
solve my problem. I copied slides from a deck and inhereted the WAV
files. I do NOT have the little speaker icon so deleting it is not an
option. I can say "no sound" which is fine, but the WAV file is still
in the PPT. I have fast save turned off, but still very large file.

Isn't there some kind of object manager that lets me see the objects
and simply delete unused WAV files?

 

[Guest]

The sounds are probably inserted as transition sounds. Go to the slide where
the sound starts and in the transition pane choose "no sound". Resave and see
if that works. Another possibility is that the speaker icon is way off
screen. In the little box that shows the zoom view% type 10% > enter and see
if they show.

If it all fails this vba will zap all sounds
'****************************
Sub removesound()
Dim osld As Slide
Dim oshp As Shape
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
osld.SlideShowTransition.SoundEffect.Type = ppSoundNone
For Each oshp In osld.Shapes
If oshp.Type = msoMedia Then
If oshp.MediaType = ppMediaTypeSound Then
oshp.Delete
End If
End If
Next oshp
Next osld
End Sub

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[Bill Dilworth]

One easy way to get rid of unwanted parts of a PPT file is to save it as an
HTML folder. Then simply browse the new HTML folder for the sound file,
delete it, and re-open the HTML using PowerPoint. Make sure to re-save the
file as a PPT file.

This will cover where ever the sound file has found to hide within your
presentation, and there are a lot of places it can hide. I once found a
sound applied to the slide transition on a master slide that was manually
set back to 'no sound' on all the slides that used the master within a
presentation. That was fun to find.




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