combine all files into one.

[JP]

a user has a completed powerpoint presentation along with audio clips for
each slide, a powerpoint viewer and other misc files required. is there a
way to combine all this into one file other then a zip file so that is could
be downloaded or easily sent to someone?

 

[mr19th]

Save it as a .pps (powerpoint show) and it will combine all files into one,
including the videos. Then you can zip it. There is one backfire, though,
once the file is combined, it cannot be edited. So if you are sending it to
someone who will need to be able to edit it, this won't work. The only other
way is to e-mail the full file, but if it has videos in it, it is not a small
file.

Hope some of this helps,
mr19th

 

[Echo S]

Save it as a .pps (powerpoint show) and it will combine all files into

one,
including the videos.

No, it won't.

once the file is combined, it cannot be edited.

This is also not true.

 

[Echo S]

If you use Package for CD, and just chose "package to folder" on the dialog,
it will resolve all the links and give you a folder with the collateral
files and the Viewer, if you want it included. Zip that folder and email it.

It may be pretty large, though. And if you included the Viewer and want to
ensure the user uses it to play the file, you'll want to tell them to
double-click the Play (or play.bat, if they have file extensions not hidden)
file to launch it. If they just double-click the PPT file, it will open in
their installed version of PowerPoint.

Also, they need to extract the contents of the zip file before running the
show (whether from play/play.bat or the PPT file itself or whatever) -- PPT
won't be able to play the narrations if they're still in the zipped folder.