PowerPoint 2003 embedded sounds on Vista

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I have a presentation created under PowerPoint 2003 / Win XP containing
embedded sounds (NB embedded, not linked). On Win XP they just play when you
click them. But on Vista it (a) asks you to confirm its not a virus (each
time you play each sound!) and they fires up Media Centre to play each one.
This is horrible in the middle of a presentation! How can I get my previous
Win XP behaviour back? (I tried saving the file as a web page on Vista to get
sound files back but that didn't work). The sound objects just report they
are an embedded object. "Package for CD" can't cope with them either. But it
still works if I move the whole file to a different Win XP machine. Could
this be something to do with Sound Recorder play functionality removed in
Vista? If so how do I get these to work again in the way I want (to play the
sound with no visual disruption to my slides when I click them)?
 
Hi John, Austin,

The sounds were from wav files, included in the slides sometime in 2003.
From memory, they were added using copy (ctrl-C) on the file then paste
(ctrl-V) onto the slide. This would produce the sound icon in the middle of
the PowerPoint 2003 slide. I believe this yields an embedded sound object
(possibly a Sound Recorder object) which I found more convenient because the
sounds would be included in the PowerPoint slide directly, and I wouldn't
have to remember to use "Pack for CD" when I moved the powerpoint slide
anywhere else.

But now I'm stuck. If this is due to a change in behaviour of Sound Recorder
(whichi I read somewhere) I really need some way to "unembed" these sound
files to get them to work again.

Does this help? (I would be happy to attach an example slide, but I don't
think this forum allows attachments).

Best wishes,

Mark
 
Hi Austin,

Short answer is: wav files, by copy-paste from file to slide. (See also my
reply to John Wilson above - sorry I don't know how to link to other posts in
this forum.)

Best wishes,

Mark
 
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