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Tip 17
Inserting Music or Sound Clips

Inserting Music or Sound Clips

You can add music and sounds from files on your computer, the Internet, or Microsoft Clip Organizer. You can also record your own sounds to add to a presentation, or use music from a CD.

You insert music or sounds on a slide, and a sound icon that represents the sound file appears. To play the music or sound, you can set it to start automatically when the slide displays, start on a mouse-click, start automatically but with a time delay, or play as part of an animation sequence. If you don't want the icon to be visible, you can drag it off the slide and set up the sound to play automatically.

Sound clips can include: voice, music and sound effects. File extensions may include: AIFF, WAV, MP3, and Windows Media Player files (WMA).

Insert Sound from File: Display the slide to which you want to add music or sound effects.

1. Pull down the Insert Menu.
2. Select Movies and Sounds then Sound from File to insert sound clips onto your slide.
3. Select the appropriate drive and file name for the sound you want to insert (Floppy "A" drive, "C" hard drive, CD-ROM drive, etc.)
4. When you make your selection, a message is displayed asking whether you want to play the music or sound automatically or when you click on the sound icon.

Insert Sound from Clip Organizer: Display the slide to which you want to add music or sound effects.

1. Pull down the Insert Menu.
2. Select Movies and Sounds then Sound from Clip Organizer to insert sound clips onto your slide.
3. When you choose Sound from Clip Organizer, your Insert Clip Art task pane opens on the right side of the window to display available sound clips as icons.
4. Scroll to find the clip you want, and double-click to add it to the slide.
5. To do a search for clips in the Clip Organizer, click Modify.
6. When you make your selection, a message is displayed asking whether you want to play the music or sound automatically or when you click on the sound icon.

Please Note: Sounds are automatically linked to your file, rather than embedded in it. When your presentation has linked files, you must copy the linked files as well as the presentation if you are going to be giving the presentation on another computer.

To adjust sound settings:

1. Click the sound icon , right-click, and on the shortcut menu, select Custom Animation.
2. In the Custom Animation task pane, click the arrow on the selected item in the Custom Animation list, and then click Effect Options.

3. On the Effect tab, under Stop playing, do one of the following: