music in ppt show

[Guest]

I have a ppt presentation with music in it. I want to email to other people in my office as a show. When I do this the music doesn't play on other computers. I know the audio gets linked to the file but I don't want to send the audio file & the ppt show seperately. I want to send it all in one. I've done this before so I know it's possible. I just don't remember how it was done. It must be embedded in some way or saved with the file but I haven't been able to fild out how. & help NEVER helps.
Someone please help me.

 

[Echo S]

I have a ppt presentation with music in it. I want to email to other

people in my office as a show. When I do this the music doesn't play on
other computers. I know the audio gets linked to the file but I don't want
to send the audio file & the ppt show seperately. I want to send it all in
one. I've done this before so I know it's possible. I just don't remember
how it was done. It must be embedded in some way or saved with the file but
I haven't been able to fild out how. & help NEVER helps.

Someone please help me.

Only WAV sounds can be embedded. That's step number one -- use a WAV file.

Next, before you insert the WAV into your presentation, go to Tools/Options
and put 50000 in the box where it says, "Link sound files greater than XXX
kb." Changing that setting to 50000 will cause any WAV file smaller than
50MB to be embedded in your presentation.

Note that WAV files can be large, so doing this may increase the file size
enough so that you can't easily email the file.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - If you are using Office 2003, you should install this
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

As Echo has already indicated, PowerPoint does not include the ability to
embed (not link) multimedia formats other than *.WAV audio files.

There are a variety of workarounds to make your presentations with linked
content more portable including:

* Pack and Go (PPT 2002 and earlier, or
* Package for CD in PowerPoint 2003
* Saving presentation in MHTML format (single file web page)
* Converting you audio files in to compressed *.WAV files and embedding
them (check the General tab of the Options dialog to adjust linking
threshold for sound files if necessary).

Of course, If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
the option to embed other kinds of multimedia should be a built-in feature
in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your suggestion, and the reasons why it
is important to you, to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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