About Play Sound links
PPT2HTML converts Play Sound links to a URL link to the sound file you've specified in PowerPoint.
However, there are a few limitations you need to understand:
- PPT2HTML creates an unpathed link to the sound file, meaning that you must upload the sound file to the web in the same folder as the HTML and image files from this presentation.
- There's no way to know how links to sound files will work when someone views your web pages. It depends on their browser, operating system, security settings and other factors. This isn't a limitation of PPT2HTML, it's a simple fact of web life, and will be true of any sounds in your web pages, no matter what program creates them.
- Navigation actions take precedence over sounds. That is, if you have an action button in PowerPoint that advances to the next slide and plays a sound, PPT2HTML will translate the Next action and ignore the sound, since there's no way for it to translate both actions into a single link.
- Sound files are big. If you use sounds, your presentation, whether in PowerPoint itself or in HTML form will also be big. Another fact of life that PPT2HTML can't do much about.
If you want to include sounds in your HTML presentation, it's generally best to use only one sound per slide and make that the slide's Transition sound. See Slide transition sounds for a bit of Javascript code you can add to your templates to make these sounds play automatically when the HTML page loads.
Last updated 6/27/2003 10:31:40 AM
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