How todelete a sound - repost

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Richard Cleaveland

In preparing a presentation I have goofed a few times and have some recorded
sounds that I want to delete. I see them in the slide transition windows
when I click on the sound down-arrow. I would like to delete those with no
meaning to the presentation. How do I do that?

If it's not possible, I'd also appreciate hearing from one of the MS experts
on the list about a work-around. Do I have to kill the entire presentation
and start over from scratch to get a presentation to distribute without
those sounds included? I tried recording over one, but all that did was to
make another copy with the same name.

Dick
 
Dick,

Have you tried......creating a new blank presentation.

Inserting > slides from file

Format > Apply design (old original pres...the one with the sounds stuck in it)

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PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking.

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That worked - although I didn't find the Format > Apply design menu item.
Things seem hunky dory now. Thank you for the work-around

But that sure seems like the long way around to simply deleting sounds - and
it deletes ALL of my sounds, not just the ones I wanted to remove.If I had
already recorded a good many narrations I weanted to keep it certainly would
be a bummer! I find it hard to believe that MS would put in a feature that
didn't have a way to selectively back out of an insertion.

I can't justify telling MS how I feel about this though since I'm retired
and my time is essentially free - my presentation is to an all-volunteer
organization - so I can't say that it costs $xxxx for me.

Dick
 
I'd swear that it worked before, but when I tried it this time it didn't. Now I have over 30 slides in this presentation and over 30 "recorded sound" sounds and I don't know which one goes with which when it comes to setting up the Slide transition sound. I am really frustrated!
 
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