To Add Sound to a PowerPoint:
- Save the sound (music, recording, ect.) to a file on
your machine or network space.
- open your PowerPoint
- Go to
- insert – Movies and Sound – Sound from File
- Browse to the sound file and double click
- A message box comes up click on automatic or when
clicked according to when you want the sound file to start
- Now you have to tell it the order you want the
animation and sound effects to play in so
- Click on Slide Show – Custom Animation
- A window appears on the right of your screen.
Click on you sound file and drag it to the position you want it to play
in (usually at the first)
- Now click on the down arrow at the right of your
sound order animation and go to Effect Options.
- Here you can tell it when and for how long to
play, I set this one to stop after the last slide, (number 19)
- Now you can close the custom animation side bar
- right click on the speaker icon and go to Edit
Sound Object
- I set mine for loop until stopped and hide sound icon
(you can set yours to suit yourself). Click Ok
- That sets up your sound but now to get it to play
anywhere you have 2 more things to do:
- Save your PowerPoint
- Go to File – Package for CD
- Click on Copy to Folder
- Give it a name and browse to the location you want
to save it
- Click OK and when it finishes close the message
box
- That put a folder with the name you specified at the
location you specified with all of the files you need. However before you
can save move or copy this folder you need to delete the file called
“AutoRun.inf” inside that folder. Once you delete that you can move this
folder wherever you want to play the file and sound you must play it from
this folder however.