Ok, thanks for that information.
I have to take back what I said about the temporary internet files folder --
that's not where the clips end up being stored, they're just unpacked there.
So here are the steps.
If your students use the clip organizer task pane and click "clips online,"
they're taken to the MS clipart site on Office Online.
There, after they choose which clips to download and click the download
button on the left, they should get an option to either Open or Save the
clip package (the MPF file). If they elect to Open the package, the clips
are automatically unpacked and installed into their clip organizer -- and it
opens up in a separate window to the folder where the clips are stored. (If
they elect to Save the package, the MPF file is saved to the harddrive
(wherever they specify), and they have to double-click to unpack and install
the clips. The Clip Organizer should still open, though.)
For some reason, I was thinking that opting to Save instead of Open the MPF
might help here, but it doesn't seem to.
Anyway, after the clips are unpacked and installed, clicking an arrow by the
clip in the clip organizer (or the clip organizer task pane) and choosing
Properties will show you the path to the clip. For instance, on my machine
it's this: C:\Documents and Settings\EchoCompaq\My Documents\My
Pictures\Microsoft Clip Organizer\BD14505_.mid Everything I download from
Office Online seems to end up in one of the folders in My Documents, to tell
the truth. There's probably a way around that, but I'm not sure exactly what
it is -- maybe one of the Clip MVPs will pop in and save me from myself
here.
So if they click the arrow beside the clip, they also have an option to
"Move to Collection." I think you should set up a folder on the server to
serve as a collection for the kids to move their clips to. If you map it on
all the systems with the same drive letter, the path should remain the same
on all computers and the sound links won't be broken when the kids switch
computers.
Basically, I think you will have to teach the kids to use the Move to
Collection option to transfer the clips from deep within their My Documents
folder and onto a server folder before actually inserting the sound into
PPT.
Does that help at all, or does it just confuse the issue?
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
AppsTeacher said:
It's PP 2002.
-----Original Message-----
I suspect that the students are downloading MID/MIDI files from the clips
online. Depending on how they do this, those files are unpacked to the
temporary internet files folder, and then inserted into the presentation.
If you ask me, it's a boneheaded thing on MS's part, because MID/MIDI files
aren't embedded into PPT files -- they're linked. And in your case, they're
not even just linked to the MID file in whatever folder Clip Gallery/Clip
Organizer stores them in (which is bad enough). Becaue they're linked to a
temporary file in the temporary internet files folder, when that folder is
cleaned out (which should be done periodically anyway), the sound file
actually gets deleted.
I can give you instructions to give to your students, but first I need to
know which version of PPT you're using.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
If my students download a sound from ClipsOnline, then it
won't play when they change computers. We receive a
message about "unable to find the sound in the temporary
internet files." Should a setting be changed since the
download location is "automatic"? PLEASE HELP!
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