Sounds in Powerpoint (XP SR3)

[pendean]

I'm just starting to work with Powerpoint. I follow all the instructions about not using mp3 files but WAV files--nevertheless, I still can't get the sounds to work at all. Looking at previous posts and links, the issue may be that sounds play, not in wmplayer, but in mciplayer. I don't, however, seem to have mciplayer on my system--at any rate, nothing happens when I put mciplayer in Run on the Start bar. Can anyone please help and move me forward.

[HansV]

The MCI Player is named

mplayer.exe in Windows 95/98/ME
mplay32.exe in Windows 2000
mplayer2.exe in Windows XP

For more info see Multimedia in PowerPoint.

[pendean]

many thanks indeed. It turns out that what I'm missing on my main machine (though not on my laptop) is Windows Media Encoder.

You are always so kind and helpful--many thanks indeed