Sound Across Slides
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
See Also: Sound Across Slides in all PowerPoint versions
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2007
Date Created: June 26th 2008
Last Updated: February 26th 2009
Excerpt/Capsule:
Remember: As far as possible, work with a presentation that has been saved at least once; then copy any sound/music file you want to loop to the same folder as the presentation as you can see in Figure 1 -- and then follow these steps.
Figure 1: PowerPoint presentation and
sound file
Follow these steps to loop a music (or any sound) file across slides in PowerPoint 2007:
- Navigate to the slide where you want the sound to
begin playing, which is usually the first slide of the
presentation. On the Insert tab of the Ribbon choose Sound
| Sound from files. as shown in Figure
2.
Figure 2: Sound from file
- This opens the Insert Sound dialog box as shown in Figure
3. Locate the sound file you want to
play, and click OK.
Figure 3: Insert Sound
- This will insert the sound in the slide -- Figure 4 shows
the inserted sound icon that you'll probably find right in the
center of the slide and at the same time PowerPoint brings up
a message window asking how you want the sound to start in the
slideshow. You can choose the When Clicked option, but Automatically
works best -- so go ahead and select Automatically.
Figure 4: Play automatically
- Select the sound icon to activate the Sound Tools Options tab
on the Ribbon as shown in Figure 5
Figure 5: Options tab of the Ribbon
- In the Sound Options group, click the Play Sound drop down
list and choose Play across Slides (see Figure
6).
Figure 6: Play across Slides
- Select the Loop until Stopped option on the
Sound Options
group as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7: Loop until Stopped
- In all versions of PowerPoint,
you might see a sound icon on the slide where you inserted the
sound - if you don't like the icon on the slide, just drag it
to anywhere off the slide - your sound shall still play fine.
Tip: Save your presentation often!
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