Extraction of .wav file

[Guest]

I have a .pps program that has the music embedded as a .wav file. I would
like to use this music in siome of my own presentations as it is a relatively
small file useful for e-mailing wher as every .wav file I make seems to be 15
mb or more! How can I extract this .wav file as a stand alone file?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Try saving the file as a Web page. This should create a whole bunch of
stand-alone files for all the media elements. Browse through the folders
that are created until you find your .wav file.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Guest]

Thanks David.
Hate to show my ignorance but how do I save the file as a web page? Talk me
through it a bit. Sorry for my ignorance.
Charlie

 

[Guest]

David I have found out how to Save as web page as there it was before munder
File save as Web Page but having done that I have now reached the end of my
ability. What do I do now to show the files?
Thanks
Charlie

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

No problem. This depends on what version of PowerPoint you use. In 2003,
you simply go to the File menu and choose Save As Web Page. The tricky
part will be digging through the folders that are created until you find
you .wav file.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

You will have saved it to a certain folder. Close up PowerPoint and find
the folder where you saved it (e.g., double-click on My Computer, double-
click on your C: drive, etc.) Once you find the place where you saved it,
you'll just have to look around the folders for .wav files.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Oh, I should mention that when you save as a web page, you will want to
look down at the bottom of the dialog box next to Save as Type. Change that
to Web Page (*.htm, *.html), rather than Single File Web Page (*.mht,
*.mhtml).
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Guest]

Thanks David for being not only prompt with your extrememly helpful advice
but patient and understanding of my limited knowledge. I will follow your
advice and hopefully extract the needed file.

 

[Guest]

Not having a lot of success. I followed all of your instuctions and browsed
to the folder housing the PP stuff. Called PowerPoint and it is on the desk
top. I looked inside and found the .html file and that was just like a .ppt
or .pps file, it would open the presentation but I couldn't look inside of it
to find the .wav file. I must be missing something. Can you think what it is
David?

 

[Bill Foley]

I'm up early and will try and assist. I'm not sure what you mean by you
"Called PowerPoint and it is on the desk top"? When you opened PowerPoint,
clicked "File", "Save as Web Page", changed the "Save as type" dropdown from
"Single File Web Page" to "Web Page", then named a folder to save it to, you
created a subfolder that houses all of the components of your presentation.
From here on, you don't want to use PowerPoint, but Windows Explorer (file
management software) to find the subfolder that your presentation was saved
in. In that folder you will find several files named "slide00xx.htm",
"slide00xx_image00x.gif", etc. You will also find any number of wav files
(sound00x.wav) in that folder.

Holler back if you can't find the folder where your files were saved.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bill, Thats where I went wrong I saved into a folder called PowerPoint
on the desktop, (this bit caused you a bit of confusion) so that when I open
this folder I had a file called whatever.html and when I opened this it
opened the presentation called whatever.pps. I must create a new folder
somewhere and browse to it with WE? I will try this. It is the creation of
the folder that is confusing me. I will try again

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

When you choose to Save as Web Page, you can put it in a folder called
PowerPoint on the Desktop (I put everything on the desktop so my computer
desktop looks a lot like my real desktop: MESSY). If you see the HTML file,
you should also see another folder with it. The name of this folder should
be NameOfFile_Files, so if you named your file MySummerVacation, you should
have a folder called MySummerVacation_Files. Open this folder with Windows
(not from within PowerPoint). In this folder, you should see a bunch of
files, including one or more WAV files.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Echo S]

What David said, Charlie.

Open this folder with Windows
(not from within PowerPoint).

An easy way to open a file from Windows Explorer is to open My Documents and
then use the drop-down address bar at the top to see the files on your
desktop. Double-click the folder there.

Or simply minimize or close all your programs so you can actually see your
desktop and double-click the folder.

That's how you open things from Windows Explorer.

 

[Guest]

Wow. I have been out all day playing golf and have returned after a couple of
Guinnesse's to see your kind response. Tonight (I am in the UK) is not the
time to work on this but first thing in the morning I will be taking your
good advice and hopefully I can come back with some good news. I thank you
all for your help.

What David said, Charlie.

Open this folder with Windows
(not from within PowerPoint).

An easy way to open a file from Windows Explorer is to open My Documents and
then use the drop-down address bar at the top to see the files on your
desktop. Double-click the folder there.

Or simply minimize or close all your programs so you can actually see your
desktop and double-click the folder.

That's how you open things from Windows Explorer.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

When you choose to Save as Web Page, you can put it in a folder called
PowerPoint on the Desktop (I put everything on the desktop so my computer
desktop looks a lot like my real desktop: MESSY). If you see the HTML file,
you should also see another folder with it. The name of this folder should
be NameOfFile_Files, so if you named your file MySummerVacation, you should
have a folder called MySummerVacation_Files. Open this folder with Windows
(not from within PowerPoint). In this folder, you should see a bunch of
files, including one or more WAV files.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Guest]

It is morning here in the UK and I am onto the job and I have done it!!!
Thanks to all of you, you all had input that got me there, some had
overlooked/assumed I knew the obvious and the others gladly assumed I didn't
know. I have done it and I am eternally grateful. It makes my enjoyment of
making Power Point presentations of my events/parties/holidays so much better
if I can mail them with music embedded to friends. I hesitate to ask but the
music I have isolated is a complete piece (Celine Dion I'm Alive) and it is
only 407K. If I try to isolate another .wav file of my own making it is
always about 18 mb. How did the originator of the presentation from which I
have borrowed the music get his down to 407K?
Thanks again
Charlie

 

[Echo S]

Glad to hear you got stuff working, Charlie. Sometimes it takes a village.
<g>

I'm betting your WAV is CD quality and stereo. If you open it in a sound
editor,

Actually, you know what? I think this post from a couple of weeks ago will
explain it just fine.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...blic.powerpoint&rnum=5&hl=en#5636c8d54b00f9a5

Here's a short version of that link: http://tinyurl.com/cqkjp

 

[Guest]

Thanks Echo what have sent me this time is gold dust. It is clearly written
and very helpful I will study and explore and I am sure that I can get my
files down to a mangeable size. Thanks again
Charlie

Glad to hear you got stuff working, Charlie. Sometimes it takes a village.
<g>

I'm betting your WAV is CD quality and stereo. If you open it in a sound
editor,

Actually, you know what? I think this post from a couple of weeks ago will
explain it just fine.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...blic.powerpoint&rnum=5&hl=en#5636c8d54b00f9a5

Here's a short version of that link: http://tinyurl.com/cqkjp

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

It is morning here in the UK and I am onto the job and I have done it!!!
Thanks to all of you, you all had input that got me there, some had
overlooked/assumed I knew the obvious and the others gladly assumed I didn't
know. I have done it and I am eternally grateful. It makes my enjoyment of
making Power Point presentations of my events/parties/holidays so much better
if I can mail them with music embedded to friends. I hesitate to ask but the
music I have isolated is a complete piece (Celine Dion I'm Alive) and it is
only 407K. If I try to isolate another .wav file of my own making it is
always about 18 mb. How did the originator of the presentation from which I
have borrowed the music get his down to 407K?
Thanks again
Charlie

 

[Guest]

Charlie3110,

Thank you for posting your question. I learned so much from it.

For example:

The difference between MHTML and HTML.
I can do so much with a .PPS file. Now that I know, I am motivated to do a
better job to protect my work.
Last but not least, the answer to your question - how to extract files (.wav).

Yes, the MVP's are exceptional. They are more than knowledgeable, patient,
generous and helpful ...... They are detail-oriented, have sense of
perfection, strive for excellence ...... The add-ins, websites, books,
teaching material etc. are proof.

Kudos to all MVP's. Glad to be connected with you.

Epinn

 

[Echo S]

Aw, what a nice thing to read. I just looked at the rest of this thread, and
wow, we really inundated poor Charlie! I'm glad you found it helpful,
Epinn -- it's nice to know that some of the info tossed around in the older
threads is still useful for people.

 

[Guest]

I have just returned to this after 4 months. I was posting a new question and
saw that Echo and Epinn had added a bit to this. I really enjoyed this
interaction and learnt so much from it. I am now 4 months on ripping my music
in a manageable file size and embedding, sending and no doubt boring all of
my relatives with a photo montage of just about every event in my long life.
I thank you all again for you patience and help. I just hope some of you read
this 4 months after the last post?
Charlie

Aw, what a nice thing to read. I just looked at the rest of this thread, and
wow, we really inundated poor Charlie! I'm glad you found it helpful,
Epinn -- it's nice to know that some of the info tossed around in the older
threads is still useful for people.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

Charlie3110,

Thank you for posting your question. I learned so much from it.

For example:

The difference between MHTML and HTML.
I can do so much with a .PPS file. Now that I know, I am motivated to do
a
better job to protect my work.
Last but not least, the answer to your question - how to extract files
(.wav).

Yes, the MVP's are exceptional. They are more than knowledgeable,
patient,
generous and helpful ...... They are detail-oriented, have sense of
perfection, strive for excellence ...... The add-ins, websites, books,
teaching material etc. are proof.

Kudos to all MVP's. Glad to be connected with you.

Epinn