[EVERYONE: If you are using Office 2003 or PowerPoint 2003 don't forget to
download the critical update by choosing "Check for Updates" from the
"Help" menu]
Hello Ron,
PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003 provide volume control for only some
audio formats, even though the volume setting is visible regardless of the
audio format that you have inserted into PowerPoint.
The sound volume setting is ignored for sound files which get their volume
control from the System volume settings. These include: CD Audio, .wav,
mid, midi, mp2, mp3, mpa and rmi
The sound volume setting works for other sound files including: aif, aiff,
aifc, .au, m3u, snd and wma
PowerPoint 2000 and earlier do not provide any interface for controlling
the volume of audio.
If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it is important to
have improved support for controlling and/or normalizing the audio volume
in PowerPoint (without have to resort to an add-in or VBA), don't forget to
send your feedback 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
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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