Adding+Sound+to+PowerPoints

Adding Sound to a PowerPoint Presentation

1. In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the **Slides** tab. 2. Click the slide to which you want to add a sound. 3. On the **Insert** tab, in the **Media Clips** group, click the arrow under **Sound**. Do one of the following: 1. Click **Sound from File**, locate the folder that contains the file, and then double-click the file that you want to add. 2. Click **Sound from Clip Organizer**, scroll to find the clip that you want in the **Clip Art** task pane, and then click it to add it to the slide. 1. On the slide, click the sound icon. 2. Under **Sound Tools**, on the **Options** tab, in the **Play** group, click **Preview**. You can also double-click the sound icon. When you insert a sound, you are prompted with a message asking how you want the sound to start: automatically (**Automatically**) or when you click the sound (**When Clicked**).  <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">To automatically start the sound when you show the slide, click **Automatically**. The sound plays automatically when you show the slide unless there are other media effects on the slide. If there are other effects, such as an animation, the sound plays after that effect. <span style="color: #484848; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">To manually start the sound when you click it on the slide, click **When Clicked**. When you insert a sound, a play trigger effect is added. This setting is known as a trigger because, to play the sound, you have to click something specific, as opposed to just clicking the slide. Play a sound continuously for one slide __** <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Click the sound icon. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Under **Sound Tools**, on the **Options** tab, in the **Sound Options** group, select the **Loop Until Stopped** check box <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Preview Sound __**
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<span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Click the sound icon. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Under **Sound Tools**, on the **Options** tab, in the **Sound Options** group, select the **Hide During Show** check box. <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Click here for printable instructions, including screen shots. Click here for a sample slide show with sound.
 * <span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Important **<span style="color: #484848; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Use this option only if you set the sound to play automatically, or if you created some other kind of control, such as a trigger, to click to play the sound. (A trigger is something on your slide, such as a picture, shape, button, paragraph of text, or text box, that sets off an action when you click it.) Note that the sound icon is always visible in Normal view unless you drag it off the slide.