deleting sounds recorded for PowerPoint files

[Noel and Cathy Bailey]

I have put together a PowerPoint presentation consisting of about 15 slides.
On each slide clicking a picture of me produces a sentence I recorded (in
French - yes, I'm a French teacher!). I now want to re-use the presentation
(doing a 'Save As') but with a different series of slides and sentences. To
save memory, how can I delete the sounds I recorded for the first
presentation?


Noel Bailey

 

[CyberTaz]

Just a guess, but if you select an image and go to Slide Show>Action
Settings there will probably be a check in the box for Play sound:,
open the list & choose [No Sound]. Depending on how the file was put
together, you may have to do this on each image that produces a sound.
It is also possible that a different technique was used.

If this doesn't work, more info on PPt version and any other details
would be most helpful. |:>)

 

[Noel and Cathy Bailey]

Just a guess, but if you select an image and go to Slide Show>Action
Settings there will probably be a check in the box for Play sound:,
open the list & choose [No Sound]. Depending on how the file was put
together, you may have to do this on each image that produces a sound.
It is also possible that a different technique was used.

If this doesn't work, more info on PPt version and any other details
would be most helpful. |:>)

Thanks.

I now realise that the best way to achieve what I need is to just copy one
slide (rather than the whole presentation) and create a new presentation
rather than doing a 'Save As'. That way only the sound associated with that
slide gets copied to the new presentation.

I can get away with this because just about all the slides in the
presentation use the same format / sequence / animations etc. - only the
text and the sounds are different from slide to slide. However, if that were
not the case and I had needed to do a 'Save As' to create a new
presentation, then all the sounds that I had recorded for the original
presentation would still be there, so the 'new' presentation would be almost
twice the size as the original! My query is, how would I get rid of them?
Where are they stored?

Noel Bailey

 

[CyberTaz]

To the best of my knowledge the embedded sounds are essentially
"attached" to the slide in the presentation file. There should be a
small Speaker icon on the slide that represents the sound. It may be
covered by something else, such as a picture or other graphic object.

If you have trouble finding it use Cmd+a (select all), which should
make it easier to find. Once you locate the icon, select it and press
Delete. As I understand it, that should be the only thing necessary to
remove an embedded sound.

Good Luck |:>)