To Add Sound to a PowerPoint:

  1. Save the sound (music, recording, ect.) to a file on your machine or network space.
  2. open your PowerPoint
  3. Go to
    1.  insert – Movies and Sound – Sound from File
    2. Browse to the sound file and double click
    3. A message box comes up click on automatic or when clicked according to when you want the sound file to start
  4. Now you have to tell it  the order you want the animation and sound effects to play in so
    1. Click on  Slide Show – Custom Animation
    2. 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)
    3. Now click on the down arrow at the right of your sound order animation and go to Effect Options.
    4. Here you can tell it when and for how long to play, I set this one to stop after the last slide, (number 19)
  5. Now you can close the custom animation side bar
  6. right click on the speaker icon and go to Edit Sound Object
  7. I set mine for loop until stopped and hide sound icon (you can set yours to suit yourself).  Click Ok
  8. That sets up your sound but now to get it to play anywhere you have 2 more things to do:
    1. Save your PowerPoint
    2. Go to File – Package for CD
    3. Click on Copy to Folder
    4. Give it a name and browse to the location you want to save it
    5. Click OK and when it finishes close the message box
  9. 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.