Existing PowerPoint audio

[1leona]

Hi,

I'm looking for instructions for converting existing audio files in a Powerpoint presentation. The Presenter software was installed after these narrated slides were created.

How do I convert the audio so that they will now be editable in Presenter?

Thanks.

[Guest]

Presenter allows you to edit the audio right while in Presenter. There is an audio and video editor built into Presenter.

[1leona]

I'm talking about the audio that was recording within PowerPoint. PowerPoint allows you to record your own narriation

. You can't edit that audio within the Presenter tab.

This audio doesn't seem to export with Presenter. I'm looking for a way to convert the audio so that Presenter can use it.

[jpleong]

To gain access to the audio recorded within Power Point (and not Presenter) you will need to export the PPT as a web page (File -> Save As). It will create a folder with assets including .wav files for each of the slides. You can then edit these files in whatever program you choose or re-import them back into the PPT via Presenter's audio import function.

JP

[1leona]

Great idea. However, the current version of PowerPoint 2010 took the save as webpage feature away for some reason.

I wonder if there is any other way to export out those old audio files or perhaps all audio will have to be re-recorded?

[jpleong · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure if you have had any success since your last posting but I did find this with a little Google search: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/extract-files-or-objects-from-a-powerpoint-2010-file-HA101821613.aspx

JP

[1leona]

Thank You!

This will be helpful for those who don't want to re-record all of their narration.

It did take a few minutes to find out how to get Windows to display the extension name so that I could change it from .ppt to .zip but after that it worked perfectly.

Thanks again.

[Guest]

I know this is considered answered already, but I think I have another solution.  In the presenter tab, under audio, there is an import option.  Clicking import gives you the choice of importing from a file or importing from the PowerPoint itself.  I think this was what you were looking for.

Daniel