Playing auido CD off the CD drive and not the DVD drive

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Hi there,
I am taking a college course on Power Point, which our
next project has to do with running an audio cd with my
presentation. It is important for you readers to
understand before answer my question, that I must do my
project the way the professor wants us to do it. So what
I am tring to say is that if there are better ways of
doing so please make sure that your answers follow the
way I am going to explain to you. Also for you hard
headed people that will tell me why don't I just ask my
professor, the reason being is because my presentation is
due on Monday (3/8/2004). So if possible I really could
use your help.

Anywho, my professor wants our audio cd to run off the cd
drive. Meaning, by going to Insert->Movies and Sounds-
Play Audio CD track. This is the exact way she wants it
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done. Meaning not choosing "Sound from clip organizer",
or "Sound from file" etc. I must choose "Play Audio CD
Track".

Now my problem is if I choose to put my cd into my CD-RW
drive, Power Point doesn't reconize it. Though if I put
the cd into my DVD drive then it works. So my question is
I was wondering if I could make Power Point to reconize
the CD when playing on my cd on the cd drive rather than
my DVD drive?
 
I have no idea why PowerPoint doesn't recognize your CD drive. Did you have
the CD in it waiting to be used? Did PowerPoint give you a message or
anything? By the way, your DVD drive is a combo DVD/CD drive, so using it
does comply with the directions from the professor. Lots of systems only
have a combo drive on their system. That's the case for 2 out of 3 of my
systems.
 
Thanks Sonia,

Yes I had my cd in the drive. There where no errors when
doing this process. The only thing I couldn't do was
specify which track I wanted to play when the "Play Audio
CD Track" properties poppep-up. I couldn't click on the
up or down arrows or manually type in the track number.
It kept on saying start at 1 and end at 1 total time
length 1:06:00 or somthing like that. My solution I did
was I restarted the computer and it fixed it. So it must
of been a memory glitch.
 
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