Powerpoint slide and sound as desktop wallpaper

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Guest

Hello, my problem relates to Microsoft Powerpoint. I have a slide with a
picture I want to put on as my desktop wallpaper, but the problem is, I also
have a sound in the slide that plays when its clicked. What I want to know
is; how can I put the whole slide, with sound icon on my desktop, so when i'm
just on my desktop I have the picture with that sound icon that plays when
its clicked from the desktop, just like in the presentation. I've had it like
that before but can't remember how its done. If you can help me at all I
would be very grateful. Thankyou for yor time - Anthony Mann.

p.s. I've tried saving it as a jpeg file but when I use the file as my
desktop wallpaper I lose the sound I created, all thats there is the sound
icon as part of the picture but it won't play the sound when its clicked.

p.p.s. I also need the sound just to play in the background when I click it
and not Windows Media Player or any other type of player popping up, just
like i'm sure you know how it would in a presentation. (The sound is a song
saved as a wav file and the icon for it is the normal yellow speker icon but
minimized to look like a dot.).

Well I'm pretty sure i've explained my problem enough - its just that i've
been trying to do this for ages now and can't find a solution anywhere.

Thanks again for your time and help - Anthony Mann.
 
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Guest

Hello Glen, thanks for your help but I think you're mis-understanding me.
What I want is my slide as the actual desktop wallpaper. saving as a jpeg
won't work because I lose the ability to play the sound when I click the icon
as thats just part of the picture then.
(I only have one picture in it, with a sound clip inserted that plays when I
click it and stops when I click anywhere else in the picture) I need the
desktop wallpaper to still have that sound icon that plays when its clicked
and stops when I click anywhere on the desktop, exactly how the slide works
but it will be my actual desktop and no other application opens when I click
the sound - it just plays. I tried to do what you said anyway, but all that
happened was the writing under the icons got a blue background to them, but I
don't want a slide show anyway. I am running windows XP Pro sp2 with office
2003. I appreciate your time and help with this - Anthony Mann.
 
M

Michael Koerner

When you say wallpaper, do you by chance mean screen saver? If so, you may want to look here
Make a screensaver from PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00048.htm


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Hello Glen, thanks for your help but I think you're mis-understanding me.
What I want is my slide as the actual desktop wallpaper. saving as a jpeg
won't work because I lose the ability to play the sound when I click the icon
as thats just part of the picture then.
(I only have one picture in it, with a sound clip inserted that plays when I
click it and stops when I click anywhere else in the picture) I need the
desktop wallpaper to still have that sound icon that plays when its clicked
and stops when I click anywhere on the desktop, exactly how the slide works
but it will be my actual desktop and no other application opens when I click
the sound - it just plays. I tried to do what you said anyway, but all that
happened was the writing under the icons got a blue background to them, but I
don't want a slide show anyway. I am running windows XP Pro sp2 with office
2003. I appreciate your time and help with this - Anthony Mann.
 
G

Guest

hello, thanks for trying to help, but I actually do mean desktop wallpaper
(the background of my desktop behind all the icons). If theres any way you
can help me I would be very grateful. Anthony Mann.

Michael Koerner said:
When you say wallpaper, do you by chance mean screen saver? If so, you may want to look here
Make a screensaver from PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00048.htm


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<><>Email unless specifically requested will not be opened<><>
<><><>Do Provide The Version Of PowerPoint You Are Using<><><>
<><><>Do Not Post Attachments In This Newsgroup<><><>
Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


Hello Glen, thanks for your help but I think you're mis-understanding me.
What I want is my slide as the actual desktop wallpaper. saving as a jpeg
won't work because I lose the ability to play the sound when I click the icon
as thats just part of the picture then.
(I only have one picture in it, with a sound clip inserted that plays when I
click it and stops when I click anywhere else in the picture) I need the
desktop wallpaper to still have that sound icon that plays when its clicked
and stops when I click anywhere on the desktop, exactly how the slide works
but it will be my actual desktop and no other application opens when I click
the sound - it just plays. I tried to do what you said anyway, but all that
happened was the writing under the icons got a blue background to them, but I
don't want a slide show anyway. I am running windows XP Pro sp2 with office
2003. I appreciate your time and help with this - Anthony Mann.

Glen Millar said:
Anthony,

Play as a slide show or from a shortcut? If as a slideshow, try this...

http://www.pptworkbench.com/html/display_powerpoint_desktop.htm

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
www.pptworkbench.com

glen at pptworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, or
anything else relevant
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
G

Guest

Hello, regarding your slideshow help comment, I did get that to work in the
end but its not what i'm after - thanks for your help though cos knowing that
is quite useful too.
 
S

Steve Rindsberg

Anthony Mann said:
hello, thanks for trying to help, but I actually do mean desktop wallpaper
(the background of my desktop behind all the icons). If theres any way you
can help me I would be very grateful. Anthony Mann.
Click to expand...

Wallpaper's normally just an image and images don't play sounds.

But can't you set your desktop to be an HTML file? That might get the job done.
 
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Guest

hello again, I don't want to sound stupid here but i've gone to file and save
as web page but when I try to use that file as my desktop background all I
get is a white background!! I've tried it 2 ways as well, by actually using
it as the background from display properties - desktop tab and browsing to
the file which didn't make it work, then I tried display - desktop tab -
customize desktop - web tab - new, then browsing to the file. What am I
doing wrong ???
 
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Steve Rindsberg

hello again, I don't want to sound stupid here but i've gone to file and save
as web page but when I try to use that file as my desktop background all I
get is a white background!! I've tried it 2 ways as well, by actually using
it as the background from display properties - desktop tab and browsing to
the file which didn't make it work, then I tried display - desktop tab -
customize desktop - web tab - new, then browsing to the file. What am I
doing wrong ???
Click to expand...

I did it like so:

Rightclick the desktop, choose Properties
Click Desktop tab
Click Customize Desktop
Click Web tab
Click New and browse to the main html file you created
Put a check next to it in the Web pages list
OK your way out.

That puts a really small little web page gadget on the desktop but you can maximize it
if you like. Seems really ugly to me but then I never liked PPT's HTML.
 
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Guest

Hello again, so how do I go about making a wav file as an active desktop item
cos i've managed to get my HTML file on the desktop and the icon for my sound
is there and the mouse changes from pointer to a hand when I mouse over it
(which suggests there is something there to play from the icon) but when I
click it nothing happens !!
Also if I use an MHTML file as the desktop paper I can click the sound, but
then the internet browser window opens and won't let me play the sound cos it
thinks its a bad activex command, I click the info bar at the top and click
install activex control but then it just goes to the page not found screen
which is quite annoying as when I open the actual file itself everything
works fine!!
I know i'm close to getting this to work now but if I could just put a wav
file on my desktop as an active desktop item I think it would work - (I just
want this to play without any media player opening up by the way) - thanks
for all your help so far and I really would appreciate it if you could help
me with this last little thing.
- Anthony Mann -
 
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Steve Rindsberg

Hello again, so how do I go about making a wav file as an active desktop item
cos i've managed to get my HTML file on the desktop and the icon for my sound
is there and the mouse changes from pointer to a hand when I mouse over it
(which suggests there is something there to play from the icon) but when I
click it nothing happens !!
Click to expand...

Try editing the HTML to change the path to the WAV file. If that doesn't do the job, I
honestly don't know what will.
 
G

Guest

Thanks I haven't tried that yet but it sounds like that might be why it isn't
working so i'll try it soon, by the way, do you know how to just put a link
to a wav file as an active desktop item and not a shortcut to a wav file so
it will play without a media player opening ???
 
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Steve Rindsberg

Anthony Mann said:
Thanks I haven't tried that yet but it sounds like that might be why it isn't
working so i'll try it soon, by the way, do you know how to just put a link
to a wav file as an active desktop item and not a shortcut to a wav file so
it will play without a media player opening ???
Click to expand...

I'm not a browser expert but I suspect it depends on your browser configuration as
to what happens when you click a sound link.

You could try:

<a href="your_sound.wav">Click me and I'll make noises for you</a>

There's also an EMBED tag, but ISTR that the specifics depend on the plug-in used
to play the sound. But try:

<EMBED SRC="your_sound.wav" autostart=true hidden=trus></EMBED><NOEMBED><BGSOUND
SRC="your_sound.wav" LOOP=xx"</NOEMBED>

where xx is the number of times you want it to loop; "infinite" may make it loop
endlessly.

Or try this in the <head> section:

<META http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=your_sound.wav">

(Just happened to have an HTML book handy ... didn't want to scare anyone into
thinking I actually *knew* all that and pulled it outa my head just like that)
 
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Guest

Well at the risk of sounding stupid, err what do I do with that HTML code you
sent me in your last post - when it comes to things like that I have not got
a clue !!
What I mean is where do I type it, where do I save it, and is it typed
exactly how you've typed it out or is there some things in there I have to
change for it to point to my sound. If theres anything else I need to do
with it that I haven't thought to ask you, could you please tell me. Thanks
again - Anthony Mann -
 
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Steve Rindsberg

Well at the risk of sounding stupid, err what do I do with that HTML code you
sent me in your last post - when it comes to things like that I have not got
a clue !!
Click to expand...

To tell you the truth, when it comes to PPT's HTML, my clues went wherever yours did to
hide out. (where DO clues go to die?

That's the sort of html you could use in a fairly simple web page, but when it comes to
PPT's output, simple's just not in the equation.
 
G

Guest

So does anyone know how to put this presentation with sound clip as my
desktop background wallpaper, cos i still can't do it !!! (just one picture
with a clickable wav file)
 
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Steve Rindsberg

So does anyone know how to put this presentation with sound clip as my
desktop background wallpaper, cos i still can't do it !!! (just one picture
with a clickable wav file)
Click to expand...

Apparently not ... they'd probably have stepped up to the plate and taken a swing at it by
now if they knew.
 

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