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Hello,
I have a powerpoint presentation, with sound in it.
If i play the presentation the sound plays.
however if i click off of the presentation to do other stuff, the sound
stops.
is there a way to always let it play?

also in design mode, can i take it off of the presentation?
when i click on the sound there is no menu to save as sound file.

thanks in advance
 
When you click off to something else, PowerPoint is paused. That's the way it
works. PowerPoint must have "focus" in order to continue processing.

It's hard to tell you how to access the sound file without further information.
Are you accessing the presentation from your hard drive, a CD, or the Web? If
there is no sound file in the folder where the presentation is stored, then it's
probably an embedded WAV file. In that case you would need to open the
presentation in PowerPoint and then save it as a Web Page and hunt for the WAV
file in the files that are generated.
 
thanks,for the help.
it is a ppt on my local drive.
in design mode i see a speaker icon.
however you cannot right click and say save as...
 
Right click it and choose "Edit Sound Object". Does the Sound Options dialog
say File: [Contained in presentation] or does it point to some location on your
system?
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the built-in capability to allow a full-screen
slide

show to continue to advance automatically when the show is not the
foreground

application (does not have focus), so you would have to resort to writing

your own solution or using a 3rd party add-in.

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it does say [Contained in presentation]


Sonia said:
Right click it and choose "Edit Sound Object". Does the Sound Options dialog
say File: [Contained in presentation] or does it point to some location on your
system?

greg said:
thanks,for the help.
it is a ppt on my local drive.
in design mode i see a speaker icon.
however you cannot right click and say save as...


the
way it Web?
If the
WAV
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Then it's an embedded WAV file. You'll need to save to Web Page, as I said.

greg said:
it does say [Contained in presentation]


Sonia said:
Right click it and choose "Edit Sound Object". Does the Sound Options dialog
say File: [Contained in presentation] or does it point to some location on your
system?

greg said:
thanks,for the help.
it is a ppt on my local drive.
in design mode i see a speaker icon.
however you cannot right click and say save as...


When you click off to something else, PowerPoint is paused. That's the
way it
works. PowerPoint must have "focus" in order to continue processing.

It's hard to tell you how to access the sound file without further
information.
Are you accessing the presentation from your hard drive, a CD, or the Web?
If
there is no sound file in the folder where the presentation is stored,
then it's
probably an embedded WAV file. In that case you would need to open the
presentation in PowerPoint and then save it as a Web Page and hunt for the
WAV
file in the files that are generated.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

Hello,
I have a powerpoint presentation, with sound in it.
If i play the presentation the sound plays.
however if i click off of the presentation to do other stuff, the sound
stops.
is there a way to always let it play?

also in design mode, can i take it off of the presentation?
when i click on the sound there is no menu to save as sound file.

thanks in advance
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
cool, thanks.
works great

Sonia said:
Then it's an embedded WAV file. You'll need to save to Web Page, as I said.

greg said:
it does say [Contained in presentation]


Sonia said:
Right click it and choose "Edit Sound Object". Does the Sound
Click to expand...
Options
dialog
say File: [Contained in presentation] or does it point to some
Click to expand...
location
on your
system?

thanks,for the help.
it is a ppt on my local drive.
in design mode i see a speaker icon.
however you cannot right click and say save as...


When you click off to something else, PowerPoint is paused.
Click to expand...
That's
the
way it
works. PowerPoint must have "focus" in order to continue processing.

It's hard to tell you how to access the sound file without further
information.
Are you accessing the presentation from your hard drive, a CD, or
Click to expand...
the
Web?
If
there is no sound file in the folder where the presentation is stored,
then it's
probably an embedded WAV file. In that case you would need to
Click to expand...
open
the
presentation in PowerPoint and then save it as a Web Page and hunt
Click to expand...
for
the
WAV
file in the files that are generated.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

Hello,
I have a powerpoint presentation, with sound in it.
If i play the presentation the sound plays.
however if i click off of the presentation to do other stuff,
Click to expand...
the
sound
stops.
is there a way to always let it play?

also in design mode, can i take it off of the presentation?
when i click on the sound there is no menu to save as sound file.

thanks in advance
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