Hi, My wife and I both have the same OS, 98se. When I play a pps file, that a friend sent to us, I get sound. When she plays the same file, she gets NO sound. We both get the slide show. We both have the same versions of Power point, SR-2 I think. I can play a .wav file on her machine and get sound, so I know the hardware's working. Any ideas. Thanks, John

I'm not familiar with powerpoint but on the office 97 version I have it looks like you may need to configure the sound options. From the toolbar choose TOOLS--OPTIONS--GENERAL. Or from the 'help' index type in 'sounds'

Hi Dave, Those didn't seem to do anything. I opened a pps file on the net* and it worked fine, sound and all, on my wife's machine; so I'm thinking there's something missing from the file she had the trouble with. (Apparently the sound file isn't always attached and can be lost during transfers. I know it sounds weird, but that's what people on the forums say.) Apparently Powerpoint has a lot of peculiarities. Anyway, I'm going to let it go at that. Thanks for your help. Have a look at this site, below. There's some interesting stuff there. Take care, John *http://www.barricksinsurance.com/jokes_links.html

That's a funny link. Thanks. Hope you get the sound problem figured out.

Hello, i know how to make a pps file ,my problem that when i am adding a song it works on my computer but when i am sending it to my friend it is not working on her computer ?? what can i do to make the song works directly along with the pps file ?? please can you write to me the steps to do that thanks ! ! God is good

That seems to be the problem the original poster had and it doesn't look like we figured it out. You may want to start a new thread so more people will see it--possibly someone who knows the fix.

I read somewhere, the creator of the pps has to include the music file in same folder. The creator's PC (and the web site server) knows where to find the music but when the pps file is sent by mail, well... Get the point ?