Embedding Sound in Power Point Sucks

Another boss wants to make a presentation. This time though, he did it all himself… until he bumps into a problem! Apparently for some strange unexplainable reason PowerPoint won’t embed sound, it would automatically link it instead. I quickly doodled with it and found there was a file size limitation. I increased the limit and *boom* it should work, right? Nope, Microsoft just has to be an asshole everytime. I thought it was something wrong with my puter but then I got frustrated so I googled how to embed sound in powerpoint and I found this: Certain sound files cannot be embedded in presentations in PowerPoint.

SYMPTOMS
When you add sound files to a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, the file size may not increase as much as expected. When you view the slide show on another computer, you may receive an error message similar to the following: Cannot find the specified file. Make sure the path and filename are correct.

CAUSE
This behavior occurs because only WAV sound files can be embedded in PowerPoint presentations. All other types of sound files are linked, as are WAV files that exceed a file-size limitation. If the presentation is moved to another computer without all the linked files, you receive the error message described in the “Symptoms” section when you attempt to play the sound in PowerPoint.

Sweet huh? I feel great once again for “beating” Microsoft. If they want to make my life miserable they’ll have to try harder than that! *lmfao* So much for usability and user friendliness!!

Another article on how to embed sound in PowerPoint [PDF].