Audio won't play for recipients

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I have inserted two .wav files into my presentation that
work on my computer, but when I save it as a .pps (or
even .ppt for that matter) and email it to people...they
can't hear the sound. What should I do? .wav files are
huge too, anyway to make it an mp3 file? Thank you for
helping, I'm going crazy.
 
TD:
Sorry to say I am having the same problem. According to the
Viewer2003 download page:

Note You can view and print presentations, but you cannot
edit them in the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer.

The following Microsoft PowerPoint features are not
supported by this viewer:

* Information Rights Management (IRM) presentations.
* Running macros, programs, or opening linked or
embedded objects.

The .wav files are linked objects. I tried using PowerLink
Plus but no luck. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND A
SOLUTION. I HAVE AN UNHAPPY CLIENT. Soon to be former client.
 
WAV files are the only multimedia which can be embedded into PPT, and
then only after you've changed the settings in Tools/Options for "link
sounds greater than XXX kb."

Put 50000 in that box, then delete your WAV files and reinsert them. As
long as your WAVs are under 50MB, they'll be embedded.

If you don't want to embed because they're so large, then keep that size
at the default 100kb, put the WAVs in the same folder with your
presentation, and then insert them into the presentation. When you send
the PPT/PPS file to someone, you'll need to send the sound files along
with. I'd recommend using WinZip to do this.

If you convert the WAV to MP3 using sound editing software, know that
MP3s will *always* be linked, no matter what size you specified in the
"link sounds greater than XXX kb" setting. So you'll want to put them in
the same folder with the presentation and then insert them, just as you
would with a WAV you want to link.
 
Your problem is possibly related, but still slightly different than the
original post.

The PPT Viewer -- even the new one -- should play WAV files. Simply
embed them into the presentation as I described in my response (which I
just now posted) to the original post.
 
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