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I have PP 2003 and am trying to email my presentation as a whole to another
office member. When I send it the font and the sound do not go with the file
as well as the timing. I am saving it as a Single File Web Page. What can I
do to preserve the PP exactly as I have set it up and send it as is to other
office members?
 
Check out "Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when
I move or email a presentation" from the PPT FAQ:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

I don't believe that this addresses fonts. Generally, for a font to show
up on another computer, that computer has to have the font installed.
Some versions of PowerPoint allow you to embed some fonts, but I have
never tried this, and it seems to have some issues (that I have read
about in this newsgroup), particularly if you want to edit the file on a
computer that doesn't have the fonts installed.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
I have PP 2003 and am trying to email my presentation as a whole to another
office member. When I send it the font and the sound do not go with the file
as well as the timing.
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Fonts only travel with the presentation if they're embedded (it's an option when
you save the presentation) and offhand, I'm not sure you can embed fonts in
anything but a PPT or PPS file.

Is there some reason why you're saving as a web page? Have you tried saving as
PPT (ie, normally; assuming your other office members have PowerPoint as well,
that is).

As to making sure your sounds work, follow the suggestions here:

Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a
presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

Keeping the whole works as a PPT may also help with the timings.
 
Okay - the font will need to be installed on the other machine as long as you
have the copyright for it or if its copyright free.

Is the sound file on your computer only? PowerPoint will be trying to look
on the new computer in exactly the same location as the sound file was stored
 
Thank you for your help. What I am trying to do maybe I can't even do. We
have agents in our office that when they reach certain goals I'd like to send
them a small presentation basically saying congratulations. The powerpoint
consists of about 6 to 7 slides and I have inserted music from CD's that I
have on my computer as well as a clipart sound at the end. My sound is not
going with the powerpoint at all. The font I understand and will change that
to a universal font that we all use. How do I get the font to go with the
powerpoint file and to play without sending the music file to the recipient?
I have received emails with PP attached from friends and they are not sending
the audio files to me along with the PP. How do they do this?
 
You can embed WAV files into PowerPoint, so if your sounds are all WAV
files, you can do it. Go to the Tools menu and choose Options. Under
the general tab, change the number by "link sounds with file size greater
than) to a really large number (like 50000). Then, just about any WAV
file you insert will be embedded in the presentation. For other sound
types (MIDI, for example), you will have to send the file along.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Sorry, WMA and WAV files are different types of files. Here is a basic
description of various sound file types:

http://www.fluffbucket.com/nsc/sounds.htm

And here is a discusion of the difference between MP3 files and WMA
files:

http://www.cyberwalker.net/columns/jan02/040102.html

The bottom line is that there are a lot of different sound file types,
and PowerPoint only embeds WAV.

--David

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