Inserting Music or Sound Clips

You can add music and sounds from files on your computer, the Internet, or the 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 hide it and set up the sound to play automatically.

Sound clips can include: voice, music and sound effects. File extensions may include: .aiff, .au, .mid, .midi, .mp3, .wav, and .wma.

1. Click on the Insert tab.
2. Under the Media Clips group, click on the down arrow next to the Sound button and select Sound from File to insert sound clips onto your slide.
3. Pull down the Look in: drop-down list and navigate to your sound choice and click the Ok button.

Display the slide to which you want to add music or sound effects.

1. Click on the Insert tab.
2. Under the Media Clips group, click on the down arrow next to the Sound button and select Sound from Clip Organizer to insert sound clips onto your slide.
3. When you choose Sound from Clip Organizer, your ClipArt task pane opens on the right side of the window to display available sound clips as icons.
4. Type the topic of your sound in the Search for: text box at the top of the ClipArt task pane and click the Go button. Under the Results should be: drop-down list, make sure the Sounds check box is checked under the Selected media file types.
5. Once you have selected the sound file that you want to insert, click on the down-arrow and select Insert.

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.

Once you close the Clip Organizer or the Clip Art task pane, you can edit the Sound file with the Sound Tools Options tab that comes up each time you select the sound file. If you do not see the Format tab when you select the sound file, click on Format under the Options tab.

To adjust sound settings:

1. Click the sound icon , select the Animation Tab and under the Animations group, click on Custom Animation.
2. A Custom Animation task pane appears on the right side of the window.
3. In the Custom Animation task pane, click the down arrow on the selected sound file in the Custom Animation list, and then click Effect Options.

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

• To stop the sound file on mouse-click of the slide, select On click (the default).
• To stop the sound file after this slide, click After current slide.
• To keep the sound file playing for several slides, click After, and then set the total number of slides the file should play on.

5. On the Sound Settings tab, you can change the Sound volume and Hide the sound during the show.