PowerPoint Tips 1 - PowerPoint and Sound

A good general guide to PowerPoint, led by Sue Special and Jim Jingle, is at www.actden.com/pp2003. If you can take the American whimsy, it’s a well written trip through the basics, with screendumps to clarify things.
(note - It’s for PP2003: we have 2002, but differences are slight)


To insert and play sound files automatically:
1. Save your sound with a filename you know
2. Insert > Movies & Sound > Sound from File
3. Find and select the file on the system & OK

4. Click Yes - the sound plays as soon as the slide displays.

Click No – you control the sound

To insert and play sound files when you want:
1-3 As above
4. Click No
5. Then decide when it will play. Click Slide Show > Custom Animation, then Right click the sound listed > Click Effect Options





6. Click Timing > Select Animate as part of click sequence & OK

To hide the sound icon:
Just drag the speaker that indicates the sound file off the slide, so it is not seen when the slide is shown

Audio play options
1. Click Slide Show > Custom Animation, then Right click the sound listed > Click Effect Options
2. Click Effect. If the sound needs to continue after this slide, set the Stop playing setting to the number of slides you want to display before the sound stops
3. To Set the sound volume, Click the speaker icon and use the slider
4. To play the sound more than once, Click Timing tab, use Repeat setting & OK