Extract images and sounds from PowerPoint

Problem

You have a PowerPoint presentation that contains embedded sounds or images. You want to be able to convert these to standalone files so you can use them in another presentation, edit them or ... well, whatever.

Solution

In PowerPoint 2010 or 2007
(Note: you must be using a 2007-2010 format file for this. That means the file extension must be PPTX, PPSX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, or POTM.)

• Right-click the file in Windows Explorer and choose Rename
• Add .ZIP to the end of the file name so it is similar to this: myfile.pptx.zip
• Double-click the zip file to open it in Windows Explorer
• Double-click the PPT folder
• Your sound and image files will be in the media folder; copy and paste or drag-n-drop the media files to a different folder on your harddrive
• Right-click myfile.pptx.zip in Windows Explorer and choose Rename
• Delete .ZIP from the file name so it will open in PowerPoint again

Or save as HTML to extract images and sounds

In PowerPoint 2007

• Choose Office Button | Save As
• In the Save As dialog box make sure that the "Save as type:" is set to "Web Page (*.htm, *.html)
• Choose a folder to save to and give the file a name
• Click Save

In PowerPoint 2010
You'll need to use the information here to save as HTML from PowerPoint 2010.

In PowerPoint 2000 through 2003

• Choose File, Save As Web Page
• In the Save As dialog box make sure that the "Save as type:" is set to "Web Page (*.htm, *.html)
• Choose a folder to save to and give the file a name
• Click Save

Now ... to locate your sound and image files ...
PowerPoint creates a single HTML file using the name you just specified. In the same folder, it creates a new sub-folder called [Name]_Files ... for example, if you named the HTML file MyFile, PowerPoint creates a file called MyFile.htm and a folder called MyFile_Files.

Open that folder. There you'll find a whole bunch of files. The original embedded sounds and original image files from your presentation will be among them.

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