Viewer 2003 and Sound

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I have a large .wav(song) file on the Master Title slide set to autoplay.
When I run from viewer 2003 no sound plays. When I run from Powerpoint 2003
it is fine.
Any ideas?
 
I'm not too sure about what is happening, but you might want to insert the
sound on a particular slide rather than the master slide. The PowerPoint
2003 Viewer has a bug that creates this sort of a problem.

Or if you want to play the sound across slides, look here:

Sound Across Slides - http://snipurl.com/soundacross
 
Was the presentation originally created in PowerPoint 2000 or 97? That would
explain why the sound doesn't work in the Viewer. It's a bug.
 
Yes, it was created in 2000. Do I need to completely rebuild in 2003?
Or is there any rumor of a bug fix soon?
 
The fix is very simple, since you have PowerPoint 2003. Open PowerPoint 2003,
open the file, save it with a new name. Now the sound should play in the
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer.
 
Alas, I have 2003 at work not home.
I guess I will have to give Mr. Gates some more money.
Thank You for the excellent and propmt help.
 
Unfortunately, that won't help since I want to incorporate the animation
features of 2003. However, I just learned that 2003 viewer does not support
launching other programs (eg. Acrobat Reader) and I embedd a number of PDF
files launched from the presentation. Is there any info or a way to find out
if Microsoft plans to remedy this any time soon? Thanks again for the great
help. You MVP's are truely MVP's!!
 
I'm fairly certain that Microsoft will not change this. They are very sensitive
to security issues, as you can imagine. In this case they are preventing the
possibility of one of their products launching what could be damaging code.
Nevermind that 99 + % of us would never intentionally link to harmful code,
there are those who would. And guess who gets plastered in the press and the
courts should that happen!

If this is for distribution on CD and if you include the Acrobat Reader files on
the CD, you can create a Bat file that opens the PDF file in the Reader. You
can link to a Bat file via Action Settings > Hyperlink To > Other file.
 
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