Any power point experts here?

[bpesta22]

Help!

I'm making a power point presentation.

At one point, I bring up a picture of a person, and I want some clip art sounds to play.

I've downloaded the clip art sounds, and I see them in the clip art gallary, but the button to insert them into my powerpoint slide is blanked out-- in other words it won't let me insert the clip

If I try draggin the clip into the slide, then when I run the show, the sound doesn't play

And idea on how I can get powerpoint to recognize / "insert" the clip art sounds i have in my gallery?

TIA

one last question. if I transfer my powerpoint presentation to another computer, will the new computer still have the picture of the person, or will I also have to copy the pic to the new puter?

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[Zep]

Answer last question first: PP presentations hold ALL the crap that is in the presentation, notes, sounds, videos and all. If not well-designed, they grow into multi-megabyte bastards that sink exchange servers when mailed about.

The second question MAY be something to do with your PC or OS sound setup (wildly guessing!).

 

[BillyTK]

Try Insert>Movies and Sounds>Sounds from File, and locate and insert your sound file that way. You should then get a dialog box which gives you the option of having the sound play automatically when the slide is shown, or having an icon on the slide which will play the sound when clicked.

Like Zep says, all media which is inserted should be incorporated into the file, although you do have an option to simply link to graphics and video. Best thing to do though is, if you do intend to run the show on other computers, test it on another computer first.

 

[Zep]

Just an aside, and a small lesson...

I was once given a single PP presentation that was SO bloated with every trick available at every opportunity that it needed to be zipped onto 2 CD's! I mean this baby was ENORMOUS! About 1.2GB unpacked, from memory!

And the author had added in show tunes to open, show tunes for the credits, show tunes to close, opening video, video for the closing credits, video between slides, etc, etc, et-bloody-cetera. Worst of all, it was just about the most useless CONTENT in between the stage shows, which made all the rest seem even more pointless. I forget now what it was even about, just that it was cr@p.