PowerPoint XP sound issues

[John]

I create Power Point presentations for teaching tasks at my university.
My Mac runs OS 9.1 using Office98. I have to play them on a Windows
2000 computer using OfficeXP.
For some strange reason not all the sounds play, but some do. However
all the sounds played fine on my Mac PowerPoint 98 during testing.

Prior to my teaching arangement today I tested the presentation on my
Office97 Windows 98 laptop and all the sounds except one played
perfectly.

However on the Windows 2000 presentation machine the one sound of 3
total in the slide that did
play cut off during play. But this symptom I did not experience on my
Windows 98 laptop.

The sounds are Mac system 7 sounds that are imported into powerpoint.

Any tips?


John


PS- I might add that all images either rastor or vector displayed on
all machines. Also unfortunately the presentation machines only have a
floppy and CD drive. I do not have a burner, so my only choice is the
slow old floppy disk. The presentation played fine on my Mac, and even
seemed to load allot faster than the presentation machines floppy drive,
which seems to be a more recent machine than my old beast. I wish I
could use Zips...

 

[Guest]

John,

I'm sorry this won't be very specific, or even very useful in a direct
sense, but ...

My guess is that it is the floppy drive just takes too damn long, i.e. that
if you wait long enough, your sound files will play. Solution?? - maybe get
a computer with a CD burner? Maybe convert WAVE files to smaller MP3 files?

The other major possibility is that the sound files are in a clumsy order,
i.e.
they come AFTER something else that is taking a long time to load, like your
graphics. Solution?? - maybe play with the order of animations, etc.,
minimize the
size of photos, etc. MAYBE.

I don't know anything about going from a MAC to a PC, but I'm sure this
doesn't help.