How to get Power Point 2003 to recognize CD writers?

[Guest]

The subject says it all. How do I get Power Point 2003 to recognize the two
CD writers I have attached to my WinXP machine? Everything seems them OK.
But when I ask Power Point to copy the Packaged presentation to a CD, It
can't find even one.

 

[RickvV]

The subject says it all. How do I get Power Point 2003 to recognize the two
CD writers I have attached to my WinXP machine? Everything seems them OK.
But when I ask Power Point to copy the Packaged presentation to a CD, It
can't find even one.

(guessing here...)
Do things work if you copy the package to a folder, and then use XP to
copy the package to your burner?

Do any other programs have trouble finding the burners?

 

[Ute Simon]

Which operating system do you use? Only Windows XP and Vista can burn
directly to CD. And PowerPoint does not use any other CD burning software
which you might have installed.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Michael Koerner]

Your better off by packaging for CD and using the copy to file option, then
use your CD burning software to burn the information to your CD. this seems
to be the method of choice.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The subject says it all. How do I get Power Point 2003 to recognize the two
CD writers I have attached to my WinXP machine? Everything seems them OK.
But when I ask Power Point to copy the Packaged presentation to a CD, It
can't find even one.

Usually the problem is that it doesn't find the one you want it to; it only
works with the first burner found on the system.

In fact, PPT uses the CD-burning feature built into XP and Vista. If your XP
installation doesn't recognize the CD burner, then PPT won't either. ISTR
that it also has problems if you attempt to use a re-writeable CD.

Try a standard CD blank, one that's never been written to before. If PPT still
can't see it, try writing any old files to it from XP. If that doesn't work,
then you'll need to work out why. Until XP can write to it, PPT won't be able
to.

And before going to all that trouble, I'd follow Michael's advice. Package to
a folder, use CD burning software to write the results to a CD.