Hi Steve,
Good to hear from you again, and thanks for replying.
Regarding your observations:
1. What Corel balloon on my first page? I created a text box with PowerPoint
in Word Art, and REALORS followed by their registerd trademark symbl
(required by the National Association of Realtors).
2. The sounds on the last slide were obtained from
http://www.dailywav.com
where there is no mention of copyright. I've also seen/heard them on other
websites. That doen't mean that they aren't copyrighted, just that I've seen
no notice of such. Another PowerPoint project that I'm considering is
personal greeting cards (for holidays, birthdays, etc.), and I purchased some
music tracks to try out in a presentation. I realize that they are
copyrighted, so I checked with various online music providers (MusicMatch,
WalMart and Virgin Records primarily), and the consensus is that if it is for
non-commercial, personal use, as long as 1 track is purchased for each CD
created, it's legal. Having said all that, I'll be careful about the stuff on
the last slide, and do some more research.
3. Following Glenna's suggestion, I changed the narratives to mono in
Audacity and the file sizes are SIGNIFICANTLY smaller. Thanks much. I thought
from the beginning that the file sizes were so large that it might cause a
problem loading in some cases.
4. I'm going to put in the caveat on my main website that this presentation
should be viewed in MSIE; as well as repeating that there is narrative and
that volume should not be mute on viewer's PCs. We must make some assumptions
about potential viewers, or we'll go nuts trying to make the presentation
universally compatible.
Thanks again for the reply, and for reading my lengthy response.
Joe