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Hello Andrew,
| When I zip the presentation and email, the recipient unpacks the file but
no
| sound plays.
When you zipped the presentation did you also zip the MP3 files?
If you only zipped the presentation that would explain why this is
happening.
Since nearly everybody (?) has Internet Exploer on their computer, one
alternative would be to distribute your presentations as single file web
pages (MHTML
instead of zipping a *.ppt and supporting files. This is a
feature of both PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003. Now you have a single
file that can be sent which, when the recipient opens from e-mail or
Windows, 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. If, however,
the recipient opens the MHTML file using PowerPoint (2002 or 2003), the
show will display in full native fidelity. So, with this workaround you
get the benefits of single-file distribution, but you don't get the
"automatically start in slide show mode" experience and there is loss of
fidelity if viewed in a web browser (only you can decide, for your
presentations, whether the benefits offset the disadvantages).
If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide a way of distributing a presentation (with all it's supporting
content) as a single file which, can be viewed in it's full fidelity, with
an option to start as slide show, and without permanently
installing/copying any software on the destination computer (whew!!!),
don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) 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
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