POWER POINT

[Vasso]

Hello everybody!
I want to make a power point file that wil embed mp3 as well. I want this
file to be like executable, that means i won't be able to see it in the menu
bar and it will run on platforms that might not have power point. From what i
have seen it is a pps file but i do not know how to do it. I tried but it
dpes not work. Coud you tell me? In other applications we would call it an
executable file. Am i clear?
Thank you for your time.
Kind Regards

 

[David Marcovitz]

A .pps file is not an executable file. It is a PowerPoint file that
requires PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer to run. The only difference
is that it will automatically jump into Slide Show view (without the
menus and windows) rather than Normal/Edit view.
--David

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I want to make a power point file that wil embed mp3 as well.

Sorry. PowerPoint won't embed MP3s.

I want this
file to be like executable,

David's answered this one.

For Windows users, there's this though:

Make a standalone EXE that runs a PowerPoint presentation
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00575.htm

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Jeff Chapman]

Steve,

Uhhh... I thought that this was the whole idea behind the Pack 'n' Go thing,
to package up the presentation into a format for users who don't have PPT
installed. I noticed that PPT 2008 doesn't have Pack 'n' Go, although it
looks like you can save your presentation files all together as a "package",
i.e. in one folder. But that's different, eh.

Guess it's a Windows thang. So much for Mac users who want to share their
presentations, with animations and all, with users who don't have PowerPoint
installed.

Would that it be good that PowerPoint files were easily outputted to Flash.

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Jeff,

Uhhh... I thought that this was the whole idea behind the Pack 'n' Go thing,
to package up the presentation into a format for users who don't have PPT
installed.

Good point. David and I should've mentioned it as a possibility, but the OP
asked for a standalone EXE that'll run a presentation. Pack 'n Go doesn't do
that.

I noticed that PPT 2008 doesn't have Pack 'n' Go, although it
looks like you can save your presentation files all together as a "package",
i.e. in one folder. But that's different, eh.

Sorta, but that's essentially what Pack 'n Go does too. Oh, and it's gone now,
replaced with Package for CD in Windows versions. Similar functions though.

Guess it's a Windows thang. So much for Mac users who want to share their
presentations, with animations and all, with users who don't have PowerPoint
installed.

That, unfortunately, is the case. There's a free PPT Viewer for Mac. er. For
Mac users who still can fire up their Mac in Classic. Both of them.

There's another suggestion here ... a third-party viewer for Mac:

Free PowerPoint Viewers, Viewer Capabilities
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00153.htm

And at no extra charge, you can read it in bad Japanese! Don't hurt me. ;-)

Would that it be good that PowerPoint files were easily outputted to Flash.

There are several apps that'll do the conversion (and now that we've said the
F-word aloud, we'll no doubt hear from several Chinese developers who don't
have a Mac product but don't let that deter them from spamming here. I'm
pretty sure all the PPT to Flash tools are Windows-only affairs.

Jeff

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[CyberTaz]

Hi Jeff;

Don't misunderstand the points made by Steve & David ...

Neither Mac nor PC PPt embed MP3 files. This paragraph is from the info on
2007 followed by a link to that article:

By default, only .wav (WAV: A file format in which Windows stores sounds as
waveforms. Such files have the extension .wav. Depending on various factors,
one minute of sound can occupy as little as 644 kilobytes or as much as 27
megabytes of storage.) (waveform audio data) sound files under 100 kilobytes
(KB) each in size are embedded in your presentation. All other media file
types and .wav files greater than 100 KB are linked. If you want the .wav
sound file to be contained inside the presentation, you can increase the
size of the embedded file to a maximum of 50,000 KB (50 megabytes).
However, raising this limit also increases the overall size of your
presentation and may slow down its performance.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA012303071033.aspx

The Pack 'n' Go feature simply bundles everything together in a folder, and
although Mac PPt doesn't have an explicit PnG command in the menu Save As
does have PowerPoint Package available in the Format: list. The problem is
that there is no Mac equivalent of the *PowerPoint Viewer* app to include in
the resulting folder.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Steve - Thanks for the reply!
Gotcha on "Package for CD" (for Windows).

And at no extra charge, you can read it in bad Japanese! Don't hurt me. ;-)

Ah, I wouldn't dream of hurting you, Steve... ;-D
I would, however, dream of hurting the web
services out there that still think that
feeding you the translation of the commonly-used
"gokurousama-desu" ("nice work" in Japanese)
as "It is hat off" is actually going to do
something to increase your linguistic and
cultural perception...
[---Begin and end rant---]

.... Actually, though, it's way off topic,
but now that it's been said, I actually do like the
Reference toolbar in Office 2008 (and in Office 2003
for Windows). Was it there in Office for Mac 2004?
It's handy to have a thesaurus, dictionary, and
bilingual dictionary available right there on that
floating toolbar/palette. The WorldLingo automatic
translations seem a little better than our friend
Google Translate. But only a little.

Having said this... I realize that since the topic
of the original mail in this thread is "POWER POINT",
we're not off-topic after all... haha...

Jeff

 

[Jeff Chapman]

CyberTaz - Thanks for your explanation (reference to
the PPT 2007 explanation) of sound files in PPT.
I had forgotten about the embedded file size limit.

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I would, however, dream of hurting the web
services out there that still think that
feeding you the translation of the commonly-used
"gokurousama-desu" ("nice work" in Japanese)
as "It is hat off" is actually going to do
something to increase your linguistic and
cultural perception...

A kind of mangled "My hat's off to you" but unless you knew what the original was
supposed to mean, you'd never have a clue.

.... Actually, though, it's way off topic,
but now that it's been said, I actually do like the
Reference toolbar in Office 2008 (and in Office 2003
for Windows). Was it there in Office for Mac 2004?

Not that I recall, but it's the kind of thing I'd probably miss on my way to the

It's handy to have a thesaurus, dictionary, and
bilingual dictionary available right there on that
floating toolbar/palette. The WorldLingo automatic
translations seem a little better than our friend
Google Translate. But only a little.

Having said this... I realize that since the topic
of the original mail in this thread is "POWER POINT",
we're not off-topic after all... haha...

Jeff

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