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I want to post a presentation on my website for others to download. The first slide has sound. I have transferred the sound file to the site but when you download the .ppt, the sound is just not there. I really don't want to have to explain to clients how to download and insert the sound file. Of course, this also happens when I send the file to someone. Is there a way to embed the sound?
 
Only WAV files can be embedded. If your file is not a WAV file, you will need a sound coversion tool to convert it to a WAV. Then, it can be embedded if it less than the setting for "Link sounds with file size greater than ...". If the sound is big, you can change the that setting by looking in the Tools menu under Options and picking the General tab. Kick that number up to 50,000, and you should be OK (of course, if your sound is 50,000KB or about 50MB, no one is going to want to download it from the Web)
--Davi

David M. Marcovit
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology, Loyola Colleg
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint


----- Sandsi wrote: ----

I want to post a presentation on my website for others to download. The first slide has sound. I have transferred the sound file to the site but when you download the .ppt, the sound is just not there. I really don't want to have to explain to clients how to download and insert the sound file. Of course, this also happens when I send the file to someone. Is there a way to embed the sound?
 
Sandsi,
It depends on what kind of sound you're talking about.
Wave files automatically embed when you insert them but they may not play
if they are too big.
More information about the size and type of sound file would be helpful.
Also send along
the version of Powerpoint you are using.
Thanks,
Scott

Sandsi said:
I want to post a presentation on my website for others to download. The
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first slide has sound. I have transferred the sound file to the site but
when you download the .ppt, the sound is just not there. I really don't
want to have to explain to clients how to download and insert the sound
file. Of course, this also happens when I send the file to someone. Is
there a way to embed the sound?
 
I have had the same problem. This is the first time I have heard anyone mentioning a conversion tool. Is it a free download or do I have to purchase it?

----- David M. Marcovitz wrote: ----

Only WAV files can be embedded. If your file is not a WAV file, you will need a sound coversion tool to convert it to a WAV. Then, it can be embedded if it less than the setting for "Link sounds with file size greater than ...". If the sound is big, you can change the that setting by looking in the Tools menu under Options and picking the General tab. Kick that number up to 50,000, and you should be OK (of course, if your sound is 50,000KB or about 50MB, no one is going to want to download it from the Web)
--Davi

David M. Marcovit
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology, Loyola Colleg
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint



----- Sandsi wrote: ----

I want to post a presentation on my website for others to download. The first slide has sound. I have transferred the sound file to the site but when you download the .ppt, the sound is just not there. I really don't want to have to explain to clients how to download and insert the sound file. Of course, this also happens when I send the file to someone. Is there a way to embed the sound?
 
There are many sound editing programs. I don't know what is currently out
there (hopefully someone else can point you to something specific), but I
am sure that there are some freeware and/or shareware programs that can
convert some sound types. If no one else responds with specifics, do a
search on the web.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint does not include the ability to embed (not link) multimedia
formats other than *.WAV audio files (using the Insert -> Movies and Sounds
-> [ Sound from file | Sound from Clip Organizer | Record Sound ] commands)
that are smaller than the maximum embedded sound file size specified in the
General tab of the Tools -> Options dialog.

There are a variety of workarounds to make your presentations with linked
content more portable including:

* Pack and Go (PPT 2002 and earlier), or
* Package for CD in PowerPoint 2003
* Saving presentation in MHTML format (single file web page)
* Converting your audio files in to *.WAV files (using some external
<non-Office> tool) and re-inserting them (check the General tab of the
Options dialog to adjust linking threshold for sound files if necessary).

Of course, If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
the option to embed other kinds of multimedia should be a built-in feature
in PowerPoint or that PowerPoint should provide better tools for managing
linked content (such as linked media files), don't forget to send your
suggestion (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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