Saturday, March 12, 2005

PowerPoint Sounds

I don't know about you, but I get very frustrated when I add sound to a presentation and find that when I show it, the sound is MIA. I know to save the sound file in the same folder as the presentation but sometimes I forget. Now I don't have to worry about that anymore because I have stumbled upon the solution to the problem. It seems the folks at Microsoft have decided that if a sound is larger than 99k, it doesn't get embedded. The solution is to open Microsoft PowerPoint. Click on tools, options, and general tab. You will see something that says, "Link sounds with files greater than" and a box with a number. Change the number to 9999 and click okay. That should solve the problem.