Brother Steve asks: “…how to forward a PowerPoint presentation which contains 3:47 minutes (3789kb) of music from "My Music" on my computer played continuously through the 4 minute introduction (Presenter then starts to click with no further music until the Closing [not there yet]). I emailed the Preso to her and she got it fine but no music. If I EM her the music, where would she have to put it (may be too large for EM, I know. My concern is on the final CD)? When I burn it to CD/DVD, can I just put both the Preso and the music on the CD? Isn't there a way to imbed a music file from my HD directly into the PPT as a single file?”
Whew! There are so many issues here. First, let’s deal with the easy stuff.
Use “Pack and Go…” on the File menu in PowerPoint. A wizard will come up that will take you through a number of steps, giving you many options for how to prepare the presentation file for transport. This tool will solve many of your issues.
The file including music attachments may end up being too large to send via email. There are at least two solutions for this problem. First, if you have access to an online website (most Internet service providers [ISPs] provide space on their servers for customer websites) you can upload the file and then send the recipient an email message giving them the URL (link) to the file. When they click on the link, their browser will give them the option to download or open the file.
The other option is to burn a CD or DVD and send the media via snail mail.
I assume you use “Preso” as a cute abridged word for presentation. And “EM” is maybe instant message? Essentially, instant messages usually have about the same limitations with attachments as email. There are many free point-to-point networking applications that circumvent these limitations, but P2P is a huge subject area that most people are not all that curious about (yet).
Let me know if this is what you were looking for, Steve.
Love,
