Adding sound to start on page openning

[Cameron Cook]

i have my students create multimedia books using powerpoint and action buttons.
the students add sound to the page through action buttons that work
brilliantly.
when they add sound (narrative), on openning of the page through insert,
movie and sounds, sounds from file, play on openning the sound does not
always start.
the speaker can be seen but you can not hear the sound.
it appears this method of adding sound is a hyperlink rather than an embeded
sound.
can anyone help me get around the problem of not getting sound to start on
the openning of a new page?

 

[milocas]

Movies are always linked in PowerPoint. So are all sounds but WAVs.
WAV sounds are linked if they're above the maximum embedding size you
specify in Tools, Options. But not always. See below.
To avoid linking problems:
· Pick (or create) the folder you want to store your presentation and
movies/sounds in. Save your presentation to that folder.
· Copy sound and movie files to the same folder.
· Insert the sounds and movies into your presentation from that
folder.
· When you move the PPT file to another computer, be sure to move all
the movie and sound files too. As long as you put them in the same
folder as the PPT file, the links will usually not break.
By following these steps, you force PowerPoint to create "pathless
links" -- links that point to just the linked file name, not the path.
When PPT sees these, it looks for the linked file in the current
folder, which is almost always the one where the PPT file itself lives.
Result: the links don't break.
It won't work to copy the sounds/movies to the folder with the PPT file
after you've inserted them.
If you've already added sounds and movies, either delete them then
reinsert them from the folder where the PPT file lives or (if you use a
PC) check out PPTools FixLinks Pro, which will de-path the links in
your presentation automatically.
FixLinks Pro converts your links from fully pathed ones (for example
links that point to C:\My Documents\Images\MyPhoto.JPG ) to
pathless/relative links ( MyPhoto.JPG only, no path or drive).
When PowerPoint runs into one of these pathless links, it looks for the
linked file in the current operating system path, just as it does with
links to files you've inserted following the instructions above.
Note: this is NOT necessarily the same as the location of the current
PowerPoint file, though it often is. In order for your links to work,
you need to understand where PowerPoint will look for them, even if
you've ensured that they're relative. Here's what we've learned about
it: