I have made few PowerPoint Shows, with pictures and music in the background. When I play them at my PC there is no problem, but when I send them via E-Mail, the receivers are able to see the pictures, but, they are not able to listen to the music. Can you tell me, what should I do to solve the problem? If possible step by step. Thank You

Carlos

Hi,
If you are using Outlook Express, open a new email.
Then, at the top of that window, click on Format, then Background, then Sound.
Use the browse arrow to find your folder, then click on the Sound file you want to embed in the background.
Click on OK.
The sound has to be embedded into the background of the new email message.
Best wishes,
fredg

Go to Powerpoint Help and lookup Distributing or Packaging presentations. You need to include all files in your presentation when you send it. That's why they can't hear the sound. You can try embedding the sound file in the presentation but that may make it too large.

Please ignore Fred's answer, since he apparently misundertood the question and gave you instructions for embedding sound in an e-mail, nothing to do with Powerpoint.

I just came back to town anf found your answer. I will try it and get back to you. Thanks

Carlos Luis

I followed your instruction but no results. As a matter of facts I have found more answers than those on "Help" but no... No success

I think you will have to do what Scott suggested and embed the sound in the powerpoint presentation.

What is probably happening is this...

• You create your PowerPoint presentation and say you want to include to sound file "C:\My Music\Intro.mp3".
• When the presentation is ran on your PC, it will see that it needs to look for a sound file at "C:\My Music\Intro.mp3". It'll find this and play it.
• You'll then send this file over to someone via email.
• They will try to run the presentation. At this point powerpoint thinks, "I need to play the sound file at C:\My Music\Intro.mp3". It'll look in this directory but of course this file won't be here (the file is on your PC in this location, not theirs). Due to this, the sound won't play.

So just to summerise - embed the sound. Otherwise you will have to make sure that the person viewing the presentation has the sound files in the same place on their PC as where you have them.

Quick side note, sounds and transitions in powerpoint presentations often annoy a lot of people. It is also distracting if you are trying to talk over this presentation while this is going on. So if the sound isn't an important part of the presentation, might be best just to leave it out.

I recently had this exact problem with a user here. Here's the solution:

PowerPoint by default will link to any sound file over 100k versus embedding it in the presentation. To change that default open PP, go to Tools > Options, select the General tab, checge the value in the "Link sounds with file size greater than" to a number that is higher than your biggest sound file.

Once again Fred was way off-base. :sigh: