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Gary - 06 Nov 2007 05:52 GMT

Hello All,
My co-instructor has WinXP w/ Office 2003. He is having a hard time with
videos sometime working and sometimes not in his powerpoint presentations.
He has WMP 11 and last week the presentation worked flawlessly, now it
doesn't and only half of the videos play. Yes, we have re-link every video,
thinking the program became corrupt. Nothing was done to the program. In
researching this, I came across 3rd party software www.playsforcertain.com
that almost guarantees to solve the problem. Has anyone had experience with
this program? Good and Bad comments welcome.

Thank you for your time
Gary

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TDunn - 06 Nov 2007 13:19 GMT

It's a great program and has a full function trial so you can check it out
for free to see if it solves your problem. The creator of the program will
probably jump in here too..............TD

> Hello All,
> My co-instructor has WinXP w/ Office 2003. He is having a hard time with
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> Thank you for your time
> Gary

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TAJ Simmons - 06 Nov 2007 13:57 GMT

It's a good thing - designed to solve just the problems you have. It does
exactly what is says on the website ' plays for certain '

The author is a powerpoint MVP

Cheers
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> Hello All,
> My co-instructor has WinXP w/ Office 2003. He is having a hard time with
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> Thank you for your time
> Gary

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Echo S - 06 Nov 2007 15:17 GMT

What the others said.

In addition, there is a fully functional 2-week trial of the software on the
playsforcertain site. Just download it and give it a try -- that way you can
see for yourself if it will meet your needs.

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> Hello All,
> My co-instructor has WinXP w/ Office 2003. He is having a hard time with
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> Thank you for your time
> Gary

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Austin Myers - 06 Nov 2007 16:52 GMT

Its wonderful, its stupendous, its the best thing since sliced bread, it
will make you more attractive to the ladies, it, ummm... It does a good
job. :-)

Seriously, I built the add-in to deal with the very issues you are seeing
and I would invite you to give the two week trial a spin. (Any
presentations made with it will continue to work after the trial, even if
you remove the add-in.)

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

> Hello All,
> My co-instructor has WinXP w/ Office 2003. He is having a hard time with
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> Thank you for your time
> Gary

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Gary - 07 Nov 2007 04:27 GMT

OK I installed the trial version on MY computer and when I go to install
using PFC it processes the video BUT does not insert it into the powerpoint.
It does make a copy of the video into the same directory as the
presentation, however, the video file size went from 11 mb to 36 mb.
I thought this program should reduce file size? Isn't it supoose to insert
the video into the presentation?

Again, thanks for your help.
Gary

> Hello All,
> My co-instructor has WinXP w/ Office 2003. He is having a hard time with
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Thank you for your time
> Gary

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