Embedding (not linking) a WMA sound file.

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I changed the file size limit for linking to 10000KB but it still creates a link to the file insead of embedding it into the file. When my ppt is all done I need to burn it onto a disk to play off of another computer at a presentation and it doesn't seem to let me change the path of the file to a local path. Hence I want every multimedia aspect of my presentation to be embedded no matter the size. (nothing larger than a meg tho)

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Dave,
The only sounds that are embedded are WAV files. If you really need to send
only one file, then you need to convert your WMA to a WAV.

To avoid the path problem, do the following:
Put a copy of your WMA file into the same directory as the presentation
file.
Open the presentation file.
Delete the link to the old WMA file location. Replace it with a link to the
copy you just made.
Save the presentation.

Your files are now pathless and should remain linked when you move the
presentation to CD.

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Dave B said:
I changed the file size limit for linking to 10000KB but it still creates
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a link to the file insead of embedding it into the file. When my ppt is all
done I need to burn it onto a disk to play off of another computer at a
presentation and it doesn't seem to let me change the path of the file to a
local path. Hence I want every multimedia aspect of my presentation to be
embedded no matter the size. (nothing larger than a meg tho)
 
Kathryn

I thank you for answering the question Dave B had. I am having the same problem. This may sound silly, but how do i get the copy of the WMA file into the same directory as the presentation? And once i do that, does the extension automatically change to an 'embedded' file? I have created a Powerpoint Presentation for distribution through email and the audio/some sounds do not play on the other end.
 
Hello,

For sending through e-mail you need to have a presentation which doesn't
have any external supporting (linked) content. So all of your audio will
have to be converted to *.WAV. However, if that creates a presentation that
is too large to send through e-mail there is another option for creating a
single-file distributable presentation (even with linked media).

Since everybody (?) has a web browser on their computer, a workaround is to
distribute your presentations as single file web pages (MHTML:). This is a
feature of both PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003. Now you have a single
file that when you double-click on it will display an HTML version of the
PowerPoint slide show in the default browser for that system. Of course
there are limitations and differences between PowerPoint HTML presentation
slide shows and native *.ppt/*.pps presentation slide shows viewed using
PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer. Only you can decide, for your
presentations, whether these differences offset the convenience of the
single-file MHTML distributable slide show.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide a way of distributing a presentation (with all it's supporting,
linked content) as a single file which can be viewed in it's full fidelity
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