How do I get powerpoint presentation to play music that I have attached from my computer on other computers?

Question

I put a lot of work into a presentation and put music to each slide. I saved it on a disk, but when I try to play it on other computers, my music either isn't there, or just won't play for whatever reason. PLEASE HELP!!

Answer 1

The music is linked to your PowerPoint presentation, when you play the presentation to other place such as other computer, the linked music will not be shown.

The difference between linked and embedded, please view:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerp...

You can do as follows:

1. Put the presentation and all the music and other inserted files to a same folder.

2. Reinsert these files to PowerPoint presentation. After you do this work, send the folder to other computer. Then the music can be shown.

Alternatively, you could try to convert your presentation to Flash and send the Flash file to other computer. The music will be embedded in Flash presentation,. And then you could show the Flash on other computer.

Some third party presentation tool such as PPT2Flash Standard  http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-fl...

can help you do this work. You can convert it with one click. Of course, all the original effect can be retained in Flash.

You don't worry about the effect.

Regards

Answer 2

Hi,

Your music was linked.

Use File > Save As and choose the file type PowerPoint Package

or if using 2007 click the round office button, choose Publish and use the package option.

Either way you'll get a folder with a copy of your presentation and copies of all the media files (that you have permission to distrubte based on digital rights management) and the links will all work.

Then copy the entire folder to a disk or flash drive and it should work fine.

-Jim Gordon

http://360.yahoo.com/profile-i7JMeio7cqv...

Answer 3

I am sure you don't send your music file to other computer. In fact, you just linked the music but not embed the music. So the link broken in other computer.

It is a good habit to put the sound, vide file and your presentation in the same folder, send the whole folder to others rather than the sigle presentation file to other.

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/blog/2008/08/0...

Some details on how to insert video into PowerPoint.