Subject:      Tech Tip #9

Good Morning!  I hope you had a nice, restful long weekend.

 

This week's tip deals with adding sound to PowerPoint presentations and having them loop through the entire slide show.

 

·          Open the slide show to the slide to which you want to add sound.

·          Click Insert from the menu bar.

·          Choose Movies and Sounds.

·          Choose either Sounds from File or Sounds from Gallery depending on where you saved your sound file or if you are getting it from the clip gallery.

·          When you insert the sound you will get a message asking if you want to continuously play the sound through the show.  Choose OK.

·          Now you will see a little speaker on the slide.  I would move it to the corner where it will be out of the way.

·          With the sound still selected, Click on Slide Show from the menu bar.

·          Choose Custom Animation.

·          With Media highlighted in the next window, go to the Multimedia Settings Tab.

·          Choose continue slide show and choose stop playing after 20 or 30 or how many slides you want.  I usually set it much higher than the number of slides I have if so that I can insert slides and I won't have to change this.

·          Then click More Options.

·          Check Loop Until Stopped.

·          Click OK.

 

Make sure you view your slide show to see that it actually does play and continues throughout the slide show.

 

Have fun!

 

Kim Overstreet

District Technology Resource Teacher

Fayette County Public Schools

koverstr@fayette.k12.ky.us

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