overlapping sound

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Jack

We have a PowerPoin presentation in which there is a
recorded person talking through the presentation. In three
places in the presentation, the talking is overlapped by
more talking from the same presentation. This only occurs
on one laptop that we have while the rest that I have trie
work fine. I have uninstalled/reinstalled Office and
downloaded the latest upgrades from Microsoft's web site
as well as spent approximately 5 hours on the phone with
Dell. Does anybody out there have any ideas of this thing?

Thank you,
Jack
 
It sounds like a "synchronization" problem. The one audio file probably
starts slower on the laptop, so it's still playing when the other audio file
is triggered. See
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/synchronizing.htm for
things that can impact this. Have the laptop user clean out their Temp
folder, defrag their disk, and shut down programs running in the background
and it may run fine. At least it will run differently and closer to "fine".
 
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Hello,

As Sonia has suggested, this is most likely a symtom of the lack of true
synchronization in PowerPoint (especially for any media that spans multiple
slides), Because of this, PowerPoint has not idea that you want Sound B to
follow Sound A becuase Sound B is in on a different slide and doesn't know
anything about Sound A. Basically, in PowerPoint, each media object is a
discrete entity and cannot be "chained" together. Instead, they would have
to be combined outside of PowerPoint (using some other tool) and then
reinserted as a single media object.

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