Saving Music With a Presentation

[Lindsay]

I am creating a presentation with audio that needs to be mobile. I
know that I cannot embed the audio because it is over 50kb. I have
read on other sights, and the only answer to this question is an
expensive link fixer. Is there anyway to do this easily, manually
without the software? If I save everything in one folder on a Flash
drive and fix the links, will that do the trick? Any comments or help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lindsay

 

[tohlz]

Lindsay,
Create a folder, then move all the required files into that folder.
Now, if you have any audios, videos, and stuff that you want to link, go to
PowerPoint, delete and re-insert them. This allows pathless link to be
created so it won't break when you move the presentation.
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[David M. Marcovitz]

If it is a WAV file, then you can embed something much larger than 50KB.
Go to Tools > Options > General tab, and increase the number for "link
sounds with file size greater than" to something larger than the size of
your sound. Then insert your sound. Again, this only works with WAV
sounds.
--David

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[John Wilson]

Lindsay

You can embed music files up to 50 MB (not kb!) Also ALL transition sounds
are embedded.

Despite the oft quoted "only wav files can be embedded " mp3 files will
embed if given a wav header. You can use CDex to do this - the resultant file
is still an mp3 , still small and plays via mpeg codec but powerpoint thinks
its a wav file and will embed it.
--

 

[Austin Myers]

Lindsay,

You might want to give PFCExpress a try. (There is a free 14 day trial so
it will cost you nada. <g>)

http://www.pfcmedia.com


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com