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Sounds do not play automatically when you use the PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to show a presentation
SYMPTOMS
When you use the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer to
present a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that includes a narration or other
sound files that are set to play automatically during the show, the sound files
do not play automatically.
CAUSE
This problem occurs if the presentation was created by using
Microsoft PowerPoint 97 or Microsoft PowerPoint 2000. These earlier versions of
PowerPoint use different methods to automatically play sound files than the
PowerPoint Viewer 2003 does.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, you can modify the problem
presentations. To do this, open the files in either Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 or
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and then save the files under a different
name by following these steps:
- Start PowerPoint.
- Open the presentation that you want to modify.
- In the Notes pane, add a blank space to
the end of a line of text. Or, just enter a blank space if there is not Notes
text.
This action "dirties" the presentation. This means that it forces PowerPoint to rewrite
the file when you save it. - On the File menu, click Save
As.
- Change the name of the presentation.
- Select a folder to save the presentation to.
Note If the original presentation also has separate sound files
associated with it, you must save the modified presentation in the same folder
as the original. - Click Save.
STATUS
Microsoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the "Applies to" section of this article.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
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