PA MAGAZINE – TECHNOLOGY 019
PPT
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If you are using PowerPoint XP the procedure is 1. Make sure your music is in WAV format (mp files can
slightly different: only be linked and not embedded)
Custom Animation > Right Click on Media and select
Effect Options . Increase the value in the Link sounds with file size
greater than box to a value greater than the file size of the
MP file. For example if the file size is 4.5MB then you
will need to include a value higher than 4500. A good
general purpose size that should incorporate most song
files is 6000 as most mp files are less than 6MB. Be
careful as some classical music tracks could be longer
than this.
You will then need to set the Stop Playing button and enter
in the Stop Playing > After number slides the number of
slides that you would like the music to play for.
The only downside is that the file size of the final file could
be quite large.
There is a 50 Mb limit for embedding WAV files.
For example if you had two WAV files of 4 MB the you
will be able to embed them, but it would make your file
size over 68MB.
Step 4. (Almost there). How to embed music in your
presentation.
The last gotcha in the process is that the music may not be
embedded in your PowerPoint presentation. This means that
if you save your presentation onto a CD or you are to email
it, then the music may not automatically go across. It all
depends upon the file size of the music.
If you want the music to be embedded in the presentation
you will need to follow a couple of steps.
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