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Tip 26
Adding Music to Your Presentation

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Adding Music to Your Presentation

You can play an CD audio track or music file so it plays throughout your entire presentation.
Procedures:

Display the slide to which you want to add the music file.

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 your music file onto your slide.
3. Pull down the Look in: drop-down list and navigate to your music choice (sound file) and click the Ok button.

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.sound icon
playing a sound dialog box

5. 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.

Sound Tools Tab

To adjust the sound settings to play throughout the whole presentation:

1. Click the sound icon 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.

Custom Animation list

4. On the Effect Options tab, under Start playing, click on the From beginning option button.

5. Under the Stop playing, click After, and then set the total number of slides the file should play on.

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

7. Click the OK button.

Play sound dialog box
 
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.

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