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| Subject | Date Asked |
| Emailing ppt with links | 7/30/2009 |
| Q: Could you plz tell me how to email a ppt which has links in it. It opens on my pc but when I send it ... A: Ananya, Sorry for not replying you as soon as possible because of the time difference. According to ... | |
| Audio files in PowerPoint 2007 | 5/31/2009 |
| Q: I have a PP presentation that is currently 24 mb due to 2 audio files that are embedded in the ... A: Kristi. I suggest you to use some software to convert the wma file to midi format which is much ... | |
| compressing a ppt (MAC) file due to sound | 5/27/2009 |
| Q: I'm working on a MAC 10.4 using Office for MAC 2007. I found this thread (please see below) but ... A: You could try some free PowerPoint compress software such as ... | |
| Audio files in PowerPoint 2007 | 5/26/2009 |
| Q: I have a PP presentation that is currently 24 mb due to 2 audio files that are embedded in the ... A: Audio file size problem is quite annoying. I found this thread Expert: Michael Bali - 10/6/2006 ... | |
| Power Point | 5/22/2009 |
| Q: I have question and answer pages in my presentation. I have the answers covered on the page. When ... A: You could write one answer on one slide and hyperlink each question to a answer slide. And for ... | |
| PowerPoint Audio Problem | 5/22/2009 |
| Q: I have done a powerpoint slide presentation perfectly. I embedded the WAV file to run continuously ... A: Jill. Sorry to keep you waiting for so long because I'm out on weekend. I'm afraid there's something ... | |
| PowerPoint Audio Problem | 5/21/2009 |
| Q: I have done a powerpoint slide presentation perfectly. I embedded the WAV file to run continuously ... A: Since you're using PowerPoint 2002, I must say that I'm not so familiar with Mac. Here just a ... | |
| playing songs throughout a powerpoint | 5/10/2009 |
| Q: How do I play a continuous song throughout a powerpoint on my macbook? I can't seem to get the "add ... A: Chris. Sorry to keep you waiting for so long. I'm off home these days. To be honest, I'm not ... | |
| Inserting video clip in powerpoint | 5/1/2009 |
| Q: I have an avi video clip that plays perfectly in Windows media player, but not in Powerpoint. when I ... A: This problem is mainly caused by two reasons. First, media player doesn't support this video format; ... | |
| Sound to PPS | 4/27/2009 |
| Q: My English is not good enough, but I will try to explain what happen. I have done a Power Point ... A: It's a pleasure to answer your question. This problem you met is due to the inaccurate setting ... | |
| music for part of a pp presentation | 4/23/2009 |
| Q: I want to have a song play half way through my pp presentation for about 7 slides. I see how to add ... A: To set the music to play through the presentation, you could follow the steps below: 1) Click the ... | |
| audio problem | 4/20/2009 |
| Q: I created a presentation a couple months ago that has a lot of animation on each slide with specific ... A: Generally speaking, there may be several reasons which cause the audio clips broken. And I would ... | |
| quiz in powerpoint | 4/10/2009 |
| Q: I read your previous remarks about inserting a multiple choice quiz in PowerPoint and saw the ... A: Have a nice day! Do you want to get the quiz results from your PowerPoint course？I'm sorry ... | |
| Powerpoint Jeopardy | 4/5/2009 |
| Q: I created a powerpoint slideshow for a jeopardy game but i cant figure out how to make the box on ... A: Here is a tutorial which will give you the details about how to develop Jeopardy style quiz game ... | |
| Fading video in PPT | 3/31/2009 |
| Q: I am using powerpoing to display video clips in a theater production. Is there a way to apply a ... A: As far as I know, to fade out video is the same way as how you fade in it. However, in order to ... | |
| Sound only plays first HALF of clip in “SlideShow” mode. | 3/19/2009 |
| Q: Here is exactly what I am doing (bare bones sound test): Create new PPt Select INSERT/SOUND /Choose ... A: That is because you have set "play across slides" to the mp3 music, if you set "play across slides", ... | |
| Package for CD in PowerPoint 2003 | 3/17/2009 |
| Q: I have a 141 slide presentation containing 3 songs. The file and songs are all in the same folder. ... A: Do the songs and PowerPoint presentation are in the same folder before packaging? Please make sure ... | |
| "loop" the first slide in presentation until presenter is ready to begin. | 3/12/2009 |
| Q: I have an introduction slide with several animations on it. I want this slide to "repeat" until the ... A: please try to do ad the following steps: First, click Slide Show > Set Up Show. Put a checkmark to ... | |
| Sound only plays first 20 Sec. in SlideShow mode. | 3/6/2009 |
| Q: During development when I play sounds (by doubleClicking on the Speaker icon) the entire mp3 plays ... A: I'm sorry for the late reply. If you want to the mp3 music plays completely, you should set the ... | |
| Problem with MS Power Point fonts | 2/11/2009 |
| Q: I have a problem with MS PP, in several editions (2003 & 2007). I write my presentations in Greek. ... A: It is really strange. Could you change the font if you create a new PP presentation in Greek? ... | |
| PowerPoint 2000 | 2/10/2009 |
| Q: I have a 7 slide presentation that I am recording notes for each slide. The total recording time is ... A: I don't think PowerPoint do a good work in the feature of record narration. You could record ... | |
| PowerPoint Presentation Videos | 2/9/2009 |
| Q: In PowerPoint 2003, I want to continuously loop 4 videos (.avi files) on a computer (Windows XP) at ... A: It reall a little difficult to loop multiple videos in PowerPoint, but you could try to combine the ... | |
| PPT Presentation Problems | 2/2/2009 |
| Q: I am using office 2007, company has sent a training ppt with audio. I am unable to listen to the ... A: Glad to receive your reply. About the security settings, I think there is no need to do it. Audio ... | |
| No sound with movie clip inserted in Powerpoint 2007 | 1/31/2009 |
| Q: I have inserted an mpg file into powerpoint. The video plays but there is no sound. I have tried ... A: First, make sure the videos play well in Windows Media Player and the volume is not setted to mute. ... | |
| Simultaneous effects in both Sound &Text display | 1/27/2009 |
| Q: I have one doubt. I would like to give presentation which need to be presented in Text & Sounds ... A: Well, there are many free tools could help you. You could choose authorgen Lite: ... | |
| Simultaneous effects in both Sound &Text display | 1/19/2009 |
| Q: I have one doubt. I would like to give presentation which need to be presented in Text & Sounds ... A: Glad to receive your response. In fact, there is no need to save your presentation to PPS ... | |
| Creating action buttons in VBA | 1/12/2009 |
| Q: I have made a macro that makes a series of action buttons that act as "tabs" to the various pages in ... A: Sorry for the late reply. According to your question, I found some resources for you. Hope these ... | |
| Simultaneous effects in both Sound &Text display | 1/6/2009 |
| Q: I have one doubt. I would like to give presentation which need to be presented in Text & Sounds ... A: Do you want to make such presentation? ... | |
| embedded .wav files | 1/5/2009 |
| Q: I created a .pps using PP2007 and saved it as a .pps 2003 My finished file was HUGE! I was able to ... A: It is really a big file size. In fact, there is no need to convert your mp3 file to wav file. That ... | |
| PowerPoint 2000 | 1/4/2009 |
| Q: This is my first time using Powerpoint (2000) and just completed my project and saved it under ... A: Sorry for the late reply. The steps you cleared the "Add site navigation controls" check box only ... | |
| embedded .wav files | 1/2/2009 |
| Q: I created a .pps using PP2007 and saved it as a .pps 2003 My finished file was HUGE! I was able to ... A: Sorry for the late reply. I am just back from holiday. According to your question, could you tell ... | |
| Signature animation | 12/21/2008 |
| Q: Sunny: You helped me with a question I had a few days ago, but here's another. I want to animate a ... A: Happy Holidays too. I'm sorry I don't find the proper way to do what you said. I often use wipe ... | |
| Adding Multiple Background Audio Files | 12/21/2008 |
| Q: Got a problem: I cannot find the way to add several mp3 files played in a series over the slideshow. ... A: You could insert the sound file and let it play through several slides. Suppose if you want to play ... | |
| Pixilation in PPT zooms | 12/19/2008 |
| Q: Whenever I put a photo of a face (for example) into PPT and want to zoom it up (enlarge it) on ... A: I'm sorry that this is the elements of zoom anmiation, there is no solution for this pixilation ... | |
| repeat of one slide | 12/17/2008 |
| Q: I have this power point presentation that I keep running in my department. in this presentation ... A: Did you want to the important 3-4 slides last every 30 second in each slide? May be you could try to ... | |
| repeat of one slide | 12/16/2008 |
| Q: I have this power point presentation that I keep running in my department. in this presentation ... A: Supose you want to loop slide 3, here are the steps: 1. First, click Slide Show > Set Up Show. Put ... | |
| pps | 12/12/2008 |
| Q: I don't know what to do to copy a presentation and the music file so I can send it to friens via ... A: There are 2 ways for you to help you. Solution 1: 1. Put the sound files and the PowerPoint ... | |
| Music | 12/3/2008 |
| Q: So I was trying to upload a song from a cd onto my powerpoint presentation, and I know that it has ... A: Does the CD is protected by DRM? Then you should remove DRM from protected music to mp3 or wav ... | |
| No music with power point files | 11/23/2008 |
| Q: I have some National Geo PPS slide shows that I no longer get the music part. Works fine on my other ... A: Did you create these National Geo PPS slide shows created on other computer? Sound files in wav ... | |
| Emailing Powerpoint Show | 11/13/2008 |
| Q: I emailed it as PPS so that it would automatically start when opening by recepient....but....is ... A: Sorry. I'm a little confused about your question. Getting rid of the top and bottom 'info'isn't ... | |
| Excell in Power Point | 11/12/2008 |
| Q: When including a spreadsheet in a Power Point presentation, I need to email the 2 files so that the ... A: Sorry, I don't understand your question. What do you want to ask? As far as I know, by some proper ... | |
| songs on powerpoint | 10/31/2008 |
| Q: i want a song to play throughout my whole powerpoint presentation. at the moment i can only get the ... A: Which version of PowerPoint do you use? Now, I take PowerPoint 2007 for example, PowerPoint 2003 is ... | |
| ONE slide automatic repeat | 10/28/2008 |
| Q: I have a presentation of 25 slides and I want the very last one (which is just a lot of different ... A: Please follow the following steps: 1. First, click Slide Show > Set Up Show. Put a checkmark to ... | |
| Interactive Overlay on Power Point | 10/21/2008 |
| Q: I almost exclusively use transparencies in my presentations because I like to overlay a clear film ... A: Sorry for the late reply, I was ill the other day. As far as I know, Articulate Prsenter let ... | |
| Audio on Power Point 2003 for XP | 10/17/2008 |
| Q: The song I'm using stops abruptly on the last slide. Yet the track I recorded ends with a slow ... A: I'm sorry I'm a little confuse with your question. Do you want to fade out the recorded track? When ... | |
| Powerpoint Audio | 10/15/2008 |
| Q: I have created a Powerpoint, with linked sound files, for use at desks. The problem is that the ... A: Music in each format can be embedded in PowerPoint if you use right trick. To wav sound larger than ... | |
| Converting powerpoint to media player | 10/10/2008 |
| Q: Looking to convert a ppt to media player (and play music at the same time).. I don't have a clue.. ... A: What does a media player mean? Do you want to show your PowerPoint presentation in a player? I'm ... | |
| Audio Cut Out | 9/30/2008 |
| Q: I wonder if you can help me with an audio problem I am having in all my Powerpoint ... A: Sorry for the late reply. I was on vacation these days. Could you please send me your presentation? ... | |
| Photo Album | 9/29/2008 |
| Q: My operating system is Vista, I use PPT2007 and have created several photo albums. In my photo ... A: Maybe the default setting of PowerPoint is different between the XP operation system and Vista. ... | |
| Audio Cut Out | 9/25/2008 |
| Q: I wonder if you can help me with an audio problem I am having in all my Powerpoint ... A: It is a good way to store the presentations and music in one folder and set the "Link sounds with ... | |
| thumbnail size | 9/24/2008 |
| Q: In Presenters' View, is there a way to enlarge the thumbnails of the slides located on the left side ... A: I found some slide show with thumbnail view. Do you want to create a PowerPoint presentation with ... | |
| help with sound | 9/19/2008 |
| Q: I have embedded sound in my powerpoint but now my slides won't automatically transition from one to ... A: Could you tell me which method did you use to embed the sound in your PowerPoint presentation? ... | |
| Slide advancing | 9/16/2008 |
| Q: I seem to have some slides that will happily advance with a mouse click while others require a ... A: Sorry for the late reply. By default, you could advance slides both by mouse click or spacebar hit. ... | |
| Tabbed presentation | 9/15/2008 |
| Q: I have seen presentations which consist of several chapters, and for each chapter a different tab ... A: You can create PowerPoint template by yourselt according to your need. Steps (it's for PowerPoint ... | |
| inserting flash in powerpoint on a mac | 9/3/2008 |
| Q: How do I insert a flash video with the file extension .fla into my powerpoint on a mac (intel ... A: Sorry for the late reply. Adobe's Flash is not compatible with Apple QuickTime, which is the ... | |
| Powerpoint | 9/1/2008 |
| Q: How do i convert a cd to wav files to put it on powerpoint? A: There is a free software can help you convert CD to WAV files. ... | |
| save file in handout form? | 8/31/2008 |
| Q: Power Point 2000 Windows XP Home Edition (2002)SP2 Hi there, Power Point gives you the option to ... A: Sorry for the late reply. I was on vaction the other day. You want to offer the powerpoint ... | |
| multiple sound files on one slide | 8/29/2008 |
| Q: I am wanting to put 2 sound files on one slide, which works fine. When I publish the presentation as ... A: Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation the other day. Sometimes, the feature of saving as Web ... | |
| Powerpoint | 8/24/2008 |
| Q: In Powerpoint 2003 and 2007 , is there a way to change the orientation of 1 slide to Potrait and ... A: Potrait and Landscape orientation cannot be used in the same PowerPoint presentation. But you can ... | |
| insert video from DVD to PowerPoint | 8/18/2008 |
| Q: I would like to be able to take movie clips from documentaries etc. and incorporate into pp ... A: Do you want to split a movie in DVD? You can try to use Xilisoft's DVD Ripper to help you, and then ... | |
| Audio | 8/16/2008 |
| Q: I made a powerpoint with sound and copied it to a cd. I also copied all of the music I used in the ... A: If you want to let the sound files play normally on different computers, please do as following: 1. ... | |
| How to put PowerPoint presentation on Web effectively? | 8/14/2008 |
| Q: I am trying to insert a Microsoft Paint drawing one of the children in my class have done into a ... A: Do you want to change the background color for the Paint drawing or for the PowerPoint slide? You ... | |
| action buttons and sound in a powerpoint show | 8/8/2008 |
| Q: I've created a Powerpoint show (pps) that includes an audio commentary and action buttons that allow ... A: Sorry for the late reply. I'm sorry to tell that you cannot let the audio play if you click the ... | |
| action buttons and sound in a powerpoint show | 8/7/2008 |
| Q: I've created a Powerpoint show (pps) that includes an audio commentary and action buttons that allow ... A: If you insert a song to each slide, and these songs are playing back in specified slide, you can ... | |
| Shockwave Flash Player | 7/31/2008 |
| Q: When I create a shockwave flash object in a Powerpoint 2007 slide, then click on properties, the ... A: Youtube is an FLV format video. It doesn't work if you want to insert it to PowerPoint via the ... | |
| ppt2003 sound issue | 7/29/2008 |
| Q: I have a presentation that contains around 250 photos (jpeg ~ 400k each), on 12 slides. I have ... A: Sorry for the late reply. Take inserting one song to the first 2 slides for example. For PowerPoint ... | |
| Exporting Powerpoint animated slides as static slides | 7/29/2008 |
| Q: I have a Powerpoint show of 25 slides illustrating a software product in use. This means that each ... A: You can save your PowerPoint presentation as image. For PowerPoint 2007: 1. Click office button -> ... | |
| Audio Timing | 7/16/2008 |
| Q: I have put together a slide presentation and have one song playing from the beginning to the end. ... A: You can your PowerPoint files into Flash files. That can help you fix the slide show effects. You ... | |
| How to insert Flash Video into PowerPoint2007? | 7/11/2008 |
| Q: I do a lot of presentations daily with PowerPoint (2007). I often like to pause the videos and ... A: Sorry for the late reply. According to your desciption, I did the same operation and the videos ... | |
| How to insert Flash Video into PowerPoint2007? | 7/11/2008 |
| Q: I do a lot of presentations daily with PowerPoint (2007). I often like to pause the videos and ... A: Sorry for the late reply. According to your desciption, I did the same operation and the videos ... | |
| Adding music to a Power point presentation | 7/3/2008 |
| Q: How can i add music to a presentation from a file stored on my computer. Also please advise if an ... A: You can add wav and mp3 files to PowerPoint, both of them can be shown on PowerPoint presentation. ... | |
| Large PowerPoint Slideshow | 6/30/2008 |
| Q: I have ~200 digital pictures from a family vacation that I tried to put into a Powerpoint slideshow. ... A: The big file size may cause this result. You'd better reduce the size of digital pictures and then ... | |
| music in PowerPoint lost when Email to friends | 6/25/2008 |
| Q: I sent a PowerPoint presentation to my friend which attached a birthday song, but it wasn't shown on ... A: Music is linked to your PowerPoint presentation, when you email the presentation to your friend, the ... | |
| Package to Cd problem | 6/24/2008 |
| Q: I’m using PowerPoint 2003. I’ve created 2 wedding presentations consisting of 218 slides each with ... A: Does the presentation show well in the slideshow? If not, when you package to cd, it will have ... | |
| Slideshow | 6/23/2008 |
| Q: I am making a wedding slide show as favors for my wedding. I have been trying to figure out which ... A: Best wish for you. You can make 3 different sounds play on many different pages. Right now, I take ... | |
| What format should I convert powerpoint to? | 6/23/2008 |
| Q: Sunny, Are you rleated to "E. Jeffson"? You both have identical epert profiles! Anyway - - ... A: I think the best way is to convert your PowerPoint to Flash. Because Flash is supported by multiple ... | |
| put Flash to PowerPoint | 6/21/2008 |
| Q: I want to put a Flash into PowerPoint, but I have no idea about it, could you help me by ... A: Take example of PowerPoint 2003, other version is similar with it. Step: 1. Select the page into ... | |
| Adding media footage | 6/15/2008 |
| Q: I am having problems loading footage that was taken from a cam corder onto my powerpoint ... A: Sorry, I don't know much about footage. Maybe it is because your computer doesn't contain the ... | |
| sound in power point shows | 6/11/2008 |
| Q: Last year I managed to insert sound into my powerpoint slides and would like to again. But when I ... A: Are you create presentation at home and want to show it at work? If you are, the music cannot be ... | |
| video in ppt | 6/8/2008 |
| Q: i have inserted a movieclip in my presentation. the video is stagnant i.e. the sound alone plays but ... A: Please make sure the movie clip is inserted correctly. 1. On the Insert menu, point to Movies and ... | |
| PP hyperlink | 6/6/2008 |
| Q: I am creating a PP presentation and I would like to create a link that when clicked, instead of ... A: You want to let the text link to the speech callout at the same slide. isn't it? It isn't possible ... | |
| powerpoint 2003 | 6/6/2008 |
| Q: Trying to embed music in presentations that can be heard on other computers. Will it work if I ... A: You can increase the file size and let the music play back on other computers. One thing should be ... | |
| PP hyperlink | 6/5/2008 |
| Q: I am creating a PP presentation and I would like to create a link that when clicked, instead of ... A: You can link to speech bubble in the same slide. 1. In Normal view, select speech bubble that you ... | |
| Quiz in Presentation | 6/5/2008 |
| Q: I am using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 and trying to put together a presentation with a quiz at the ... A: You can make simple quiz(such as Multiple-choice question) using PowerPoint 2003 by following these ... | |
| Looping a group of videos | 6/4/2008 |
| Q: I have done up a powerpiont presentation that starts with four videos. Each zooms to full screen, ... A: You are trying to play back the videos one by one, isn't it? As far as I know, this situation can ... | |
| Simultaneously updating the shorter version of the presentation when updating the longer version | 6/2/2008 |
| Q: I have a longer and a shorter version of the same presentation. Is there any fast way to transfer ... A: I'm sorry that there is no shortcut for the duplication work. Although the duplication work will ... | |
| video but no sound | 5/30/2008 |
| Q: I just wanted to add 3 short movies to my presentation. They are all WMV files and seem to work fine ... A: I encountered this problem one time. Now I told you how I do it, hope it helps. 1. I put all the ... | |
| music on powerpoint | 5/27/2008 |
| Q: I did a powerpoint presentation of my nieces wedding pictures to her wedding music. On my computer ... A: Burning your presentation onto CD is good idea. It let you view presentation on a CD or DVD. If you ... | |
| Video PP 2003 issue | 5/27/2008 |
| Q: Hey sunny - I put together a PP presentation that I intend on putting up on a web page. The ... A: This is usually caused by having too long path to the video. Move the presentation and video to the ... | |
| Embedded WAV file in PPS 2003 | 5/24/2008 |
| Q: I created a PP2003 slideshow and want to email it to a friend. As instructed, I "embedded" a song ... A: The difference between Linked and Embedded Usually, sound file in WAV format will be embedded in ... | |
| Embedded WAV file in PPS 2003 | 5/20/2008 |
| Q: I created a PP2003 slideshow and want to email it to a friend. As instructed, I "embedded" a song ... A: It is really a strange thing. If you still cannot get the Custom Animation option on the shortcut ... | |
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sunny
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Expertise
I can answer PowerPoint related questions about audio and other rich media issues, animation effects, and presentation-based training and learning. At the same time, PowerPoint presentation related question about Email, and presentation sharing on Web.
Experience
creating interactive slides, answer threads about PowerPoint on forums, using PowerPoint for business and educational purposes
Education/Credentials
Bachelor's Degree of E-commerce.
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