PPS sound sound issues

J

Jmorse

I created a .pps w/ PPT2003 on my XP machine. Uploaded the .pps file to
my web site. Created a link to it on a web page on my site. Using that
link, I checked it out using both IE6 and Firefox on my XP machine.
Everything seems to work as it should.

I tested it using IE6 on another machine runing Windows ME with PPT97.
And the download process/opennig with PPT97 works fine. The sound file
for slide 1 plays as it should but the sound files do not play on any
subsequent slides.

Opening the original file on my machine w/ 2003PPT, when I 'Edit the
Sound Object' for slide 1, it says "(file contained in presentation)"
but for subsequent slides it gives the path on my HDD to the sound file.

How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Jmorse
 
S

Sonia

Your first sound file is a WAV and is smaller than the limit that you have set
in Tools > Options > General, so it is embedded. The other sound files are
either not WAV files or their size exceeds the size limit you have set, so they
are linked.

Linked sound files will not work in a .PPS file from the web. You can either
ensure that all of the sound files are WAVs and are embedded, or you can create
a "zip" file containing all of the files and the presentation and require the
end user to download, unzip, and run the presentation from their system.

See:
Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a
presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com
 
J

Jmorse

Sonia said:
Your first sound file is a WAV and is smaller than the limit that you
have set in Tools > Options > General, so it is embedded. The other
sound files are either not WAV files or their size exceeds the size
limit you have set, so they are linked.


As usual, very helpful. Indeed the file sizes exceeded the limit on
subsequent slides.
Thanks so much for your help.

Jmorse
 

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