AUDIO LOSS

G

Gary S

When I email a power point presentation or save to a disk, the audio file is
lost when I try to open it from email or disk. Any suggestion?
 
T

tohlz

Seems like the sound path has broken.
What sound format are you using? If the music is in wav format, you can embed
the music into the presentation. If you are using other format, you can also
try to convert the music into wav format using sound convertor. By doing so,
the music will be embedded into the presentation (preventing the link from
breaking) and you do not have to email the music. See the below link for
embedding instruction and sound converters.

Alternately for non-wav format,
Create a new folder and move the ppt and music into the folder.
Now, open the ppt file, delete and reinsert the music to create a pathless
link.
Then, save your presentation.
Email both the presentation and music.

Read about how to embed your music into the presentation, where to download
sound convertors and other related information here:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm
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S

simmon

Garys S,
Sound files, because of their large size, don't become an actual part of the
presentation file--a link is formed to the sound file. When the presentation
is played, the program goes looking for the sound at the location described
in the link. This works fine on the original creation machine, but as soon as
you move things to another machine, the links don't accurately describe where
the files are, and things fail to play.
So start off by putting the sounds in the same folder as the presentation,
and then inserting them into your presentation. This will create an internal
link with no real address: PowerPoint knows that the sound is in the same
folder as the presentation, and will look for it there regardless of what
that folder's name is, or what machine it's on.
 
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