Hello Joseph,
The "Package for CD" feature in PowerPoint 2003 utilizes the IMAPI (Image
Mastering API) of Windows XP. This API set does not work for burning to
DVD-RW.
If your reason for burning to DVD-RW is because you want to take your
presentation to another computer for showing/editing in PowerPoint but the
presentation and supporting files are too large to fit on a CD-RW, you can
do the following:
1) File -> Package for CD (choose all the necessary options and add
additional files as needed)
2) Click the "Save to Folder" button (instead of the Save to CD button) to
put all the necessary files into a staging area of your HD (you will have
to have enough free disc space to hold copies of of all the files that
would be burned to your DVD-RW)
3) In you DVD burning utility, burn the contents of the folder created in
step #2 above to a blank DVD (make sure you tell your burning software to
burn it as a DVD-ROM disc (NOT a DVD-Video disc).
HOWEVER, if your reason for burning to DVD-RW is in order to create a
DVD-Video disc which will play the presentation (like a movie) in consumer
DVD-Video players, then, PowerPoint does not have the built-in ability to
save presentations as video files or other video formats such as DVD-Video.
Although there have been some requests, made directly to Microsoft, for the
ability to export PowerPoint presentations to DVD, it's not always clear,
from the suggestion submissions, which of the DVD formats are desired; what
"problem" does saving as DVD solve for each customer; and, given the
limitations of DVD-Video (and other movie formats) when compared to the
fidelity and interactivity of a native PowerPoint slide show, what slide
show capabilities/quality customers are willing to give up in order to get
the perceived benefits of DVD output.
So, if the ability save presentations to DVD-Video, directly from within
PowerPoint, is important to you (or anyone else reading this message), or
if there are specific features of PowerPoint slide show that you would like
to see (which might eliminate the need to save presentations as DVD-Video),
don't forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.
IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto
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