PPT 2007 can not get to play automatically

[Pam]

I've tried everything I can think of to get the presentation I've saved as a
pps to play automatically. It starts with the first slide, starts music, but
never goes anywhere else.

I've got the slide animation ticked at 6 sec interval, the set up looped
continously, slow slides 'all' and advance slides checked at using timings
if present.

what am I doing wrong?

thanks
Pam

 

[Echo S]

double-click the sound in the animation pane and put 999 in the "stop
playing after" box.

 

[Echo S]

Ah, good, I'm glad to hear that! I didn't want you or anyone else to get
caught out with an un-embedded sound file!

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That's good to know...thank you! I will only be playing this slide show
on
my computer so I should be good.

Thanks again!

That's fine, but my point is, the MP3 is NOT embedded. If you send the
PPT
file to someone and don't include the MP3 along with it, then the sound
will
not play on the other end.

When you say...

Click on Advanced and then scroll down to the bottom to 'Save'.
Enter
50000
and click ok. Go to 'Insert' tab and s
'Sounds' and then 'Sound from File' and choose your sound file. It
doesn't
have to be a WAV file as everyone says. MP3's work.

....well, that's what I have issues with, since you're talking about
embedding. Sure, MP3s work -- you can INSERT them, but you cannot EMBED
them. That's what that really means. So yes, for embedding, it does have
to
be a WAV file as everyone says.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Thank you. I'm not what any of this really means...lol.... but I do
know
that I inserted an MP3 and it works. I tried to convert it to a WAV
and
insert it but it wouldn't work. I also had to make sure that the MP3
file
was in the same file folder as the PPT.

:

What I meant to say at the last part of that post is that that 5000
embedding/linking limit applies only to WAV files.

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What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx


MP3s do not embed (unless you've added a RIFF WAV header with
something
like CDEX).

MP3s will indeed insert, but they will not embed, and that's what
that
50000 is -- an embedding/linking limit.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx


Such a process but it's simple once you know what it is. In PPT
click
on
the
office button (top left) and then down to Power point options at
the
bottom.
Click on Advanced and then scroll down to the bottom to 'Save'.
Enter
50000
and click ok. Go to 'Insert' tab and s
'Sounds' and then 'Sound from File' and choose your sound file. It
doesn't
have to be a WAV file as everyone says. MP3's work. A megaphone
will
appear
in the slide...move it off the slide so it won't show in your
presentation.
Go to 'Animations' tab and click on 'Custom Annimation'. Right
click
your
chosen sound file at the right and then 'Effect Options' and then
in
'Stop
Playing' click 'After' and then set the number of slides you want
the
song to
play over. Click OK. Now still in 'Animations' tab move over to
'Advance
Slide' to the right and check 'Automatically After' and set your
slide
speed.
Go to 'Slide Show' tab and click 'From Beginning'. Both slide show
and
music should play together.

:

double-click the sound in the animation pane and put 999 in the
"stop
playing after" box.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx


I've tried everything I can think of to get the presentation
I've
saved as
a pps to play automatically. It starts with the first slide,
starts
music,
but never goes anywhere else.

I've got the slide animation ticked at 6 sec interval, the set
up
looped
continously, slow slides 'all' and advance slides checked at
using
timings
if present.

what am I doing wrong?

thanks
Pam

 

[FarNortherner]

Pam, I'm having the same exact problem with a newly installed Office 2007
PPT. Have you had any other responses from anywhere?

 

[Echo S]

You need to right-click the sound animation in the custom animation pane and
choose Effect Options. Put 999 in the "stop playing after" box. This will
allow your presentation to continue as your sound plays.

PPT 2007 has a button on the ribbon you can check to do this. Select the
sound icon on the slide and then on the Sound tab, choose "play across
slides" (or something to that effect).