Sound Library Questions

When recording sound in PowerPoint, a sound a menu box
comes up. You name the sound and record it. Then when you
select OK and close the box, the sound automatically goes
into the sound library under the name you give it, or it
is labeled as "recorded sound" if you forget to give it a
name (which I have done). Also automatically, a sound
icon (speaker) appears on the page in PowerPoint that you
have recorded the sound. You can drag the icon anywhere
you want on the page. Something I have not tried to
delete the sound from the library is to delete the sound
icon directly on the page with a right click and then
look to see if it is deleted in the sound library too, or
to delete the file with the whole book or project of
slides to see if the sounds then delete from the sound
library. When I use the Microsoft help menu, and look for
a solution, the only one given is to right click on the
sound icon in the individual slides. My goal is to keep
the book/presentation on file without cluttering up the
PowerPoint Sound Library because even in one
book/presentation, if you record sounds/speech on each
page, it makes for a lot of additions to the sound
library. Since I would like to do many
books/presentations the question becomes must a sound be
in the PowerPoint Library to open a file/book with
recorded speech/sound and play it....is it a part of the
PowerPoint Program that I just have to live with? Will
sounds recorded always be a permanent part of the sound
library? If not how can recorded sounds be deleted?

I don't know the answers to your questions off the top of my head, Al, and
it seems probably others don't, either, or you'd already have an answer by
now.

Trial and error is probably the only way to figure this one out, and so I
might have a look at it if I have some extra time in the next few days.
Which version of PPT are you using?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

"Al Stearns" wrote in message
...
When recording sound in PowerPoint, a sound a menu box
comes up. You name the sound and record it. Then when you
select OK and close the box, the sound automatically goes
into the sound library under the name you give it, or it
is labeled as "recorded sound" if you forget to give it a
name (which I have done). Also automatically, a sound
icon (speaker) appears on the page in PowerPoint that you
have recorded the sound. You can drag the icon anywhere
you want on the page. Something I have not tried to
delete the sound from the library is to delete the sound
icon directly on the page with a right click and then
look to see if it is deleted in the sound library too, or
to delete the file with the whole book or project of
slides to see if the sounds then delete from the sound
library. When I use the Microsoft help menu, and look for
a solution, the only one given is to right click on the
sound icon in the individual slides. My goal is to keep
the book/presentation on file without cluttering up the
PowerPoint Sound Library because even in one
book/presentation, if you record sounds/speech on each
page, it makes for a lot of additions to the sound
library. Since I would like to do many
books/presentations the question becomes must a sound be
in the PowerPoint Library to open a file/book with
recorded speech/sound and play it....is it a part of the
PowerPoint Program that I just have to live with? Will
sounds recorded always be a permanent part of the sound
library? If not how can recorded sounds be deleted?

Thanks for your response, Echo.

I am using Powerpoint 2002

Warmly, Al Stearns
Brevard, North Carolina, USA

-----Original Message-----
I don't know the answers to your questions off the top
of my head, Al, and
it seems probably others don't, either, or you'd already
have an answer by
now.

Trial and error is probably the only way to figure this
one out, and so I
might have a look at it if I have some extra time in the
next few days.
Which version of PPT are you using?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

"Al Stearns" wrote in message
...
When recording sound in PowerPoint, a sound a menu box
comes up. You name the sound and record it. Then when
you
select OK and close the box, the sound automatically
goes
into the sound library under the name you give it, or
it
is labeled as "recorded sound" if you forget to give
it a
name (which I have done). Also automatically, a sound
icon (speaker) appears on the page in PowerPoint that
you
have recorded the sound. You can drag the icon anywhere
you want on the page. Something I have not tried to
delete the sound from the library is to delete the
sound
icon directly on the page with a right click and then
look to see if it is deleted in the sound library too,
or
to delete the file with the whole book or project of
slides to see if the sounds then delete from the sound
library. When I use the Microsoft help menu, and look
for
a solution, the only one given is to right click on the
sound icon in the individual slides. My goal is to keep
the book/presentation on file without cluttering up the
PowerPoint Sound Library because even in one
book/presentation, if you record sounds/speech on each
page, it makes for a lot of additions to the sound
library. Since I would like to do many
books/presentations the question becomes must a sound
be
in the PowerPoint Library to open a file/book with
recorded speech/sound and play it....is it a part of
the
PowerPoint Program that I just have to live with? Will
sounds recorded always be a permanent part of the sound
library? If not how can recorded sounds be deleted?


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