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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / September 2006Embedded Music in Power Point Presentation
Hi, I have a 217 slide power point presentation (145,323KB) into which I would like to embed 11 tracks of music. Under Tools, Option, General I have set the link to 50,000. When I embed the first track and try to save the presentation I get an error and the sound does not save. What is the problem? I could link the music to the presenation; however, the link is the path on my PC. I would like to have the files in the same directory and just link to the file name, so I can burn all files to a CD and it will still work. Any suggestions how I can change the links? My first choice is embedding the music files, but I would be happy to just get a single file name into the link (no path) and the presentation would work on a CD. I have PowerPoint 2000. Thanks for the help, Evelyne  SignatureEvelyne This should help you sort it out: http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/pptemailmusic.html SignatureDid that answer the question / help? _____________________________ John Wilson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Thanks for the help, > Evelyne John, I have tried both methods. With Method #1, I can't save the file, gives me an error. With Method #2, the path is C:\Hawaii\file name. So when I burn it on a CD and run it from the CD it does not find the music. I would like the file name just be the name without c:\Hawaii. SignatureEvelyne > This should help you sort it out: > http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/pptemailmusic.html [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks for the help, > > Evelyne Something is wrong because with method 2 its impossible ( I think) to get a path as transition sounds are always embedded. If you want email me just the sound file and I'll have a look john AT SIGN technologytrish.co.uk SignatureDid that answer the question / help? _____________________________ John Wilson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html > John, I have tried both methods. > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > > Thanks for the help, > > > Evelyne You might want to try PFCExpress and use the "Save to zip" feature. You may then copy all the files in the zip file (not the zip itself) directly to your CD root. PFCExpress should take care of all the linking issues automatically. PFCExpress is 100% free to all PowerPoint users. Web site link http://www.pfcmedia.com Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Thanks for the help, > Evelyne Austin, I have downloaded the PFCExpress, installed it on my hard drive, and tried twice to send it as a *.pps. It will run a little bit and then get an error "Run Time Error '-2147024809 [90070057]' The item with the specified name was not found". Then I wait about 15 minutes while the hour glass shows busy, but it never quits. Both times I did notice that 2 temorary directories were created, PFCtemp & PFCtemp2. PFCtemp has the 1st 4 of 12 sound *.wav files in it, PFCtemp2 has nothing in it. Did I not wait long enough? Should I try again tomorrow? Evelyne SignatureEvelyne > You might want to try PFCExpress and use the "Save to zip" feature. You may > then copy all the files in the zip file (not the zip itself) directly to [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Thanks for the help, > > Evelyne Evelyne, Can you contact me via email? I'd like to follow through on this with some specific questions. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com > Austin, > [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] >> > Thanks for the help, >> > Evelyne Austin, I e-mailed you on 9/20/2006 (at grm) and have not heard from you? Evelyne SignatureEvelyne > Evelyne, > [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] > >> > Thanks for the help, > >> > Evelyne Can you try again, your email didn't get to me. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com > Austin, I e-mailed you on 9/20/2006 (at grm) and have not heard from you? > Evelyne [quoted text clipped - 78 lines] >> >> > Thanks for the help, >> >> > Evelyne Austin, I tried e-mailing you again. I am using the e-mail address under your name in the header of your communication window. I sent it 9/23/2006 about 22:00. SignatureEvelyne > Can you try again, your email didn't get to me. > [quoted text clipped - 85 lines] > >> >> > Thanks for the help, > >> >> > Evelyne > Hi, > > I have a 217 slide power point presentation (145,323KB) into which I would > like to embed 11 tracks of music. Under Tools, Option, General I have set > the link to 50,000. When I embed the first track and try to save the > presentation I get an error and the sound does not save. What is the problem? You show me yours (error message), I'll show you mine (answer, if I have one) ;-) What's the TEXT of the error message? > I could link the music to the presenation; however, the link is the path on > my PC. I would like to have the files in the same directory and just link to > the file name, so I can burn all files to a CD and it will still work. Any > suggestions how I can change the links? Yes. By and large, if you put the sound files in the same folder as the PPT first, and only then insert them as sounds, the link will be pathless (just points to the file, not the whole path to the file). It will then work on other systems nearly 100% of the time. You can test this using the link reporting tool that's part of our FixLinks addin at http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/ (the demo is free and includes the link reporting tool) ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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