Ms Office Tune Up

PowerPoint enables you to add a sound file that plays automatically when you navigate to a slide. These are normally short audio clips that play sound effects, messages, or snippets of music. However, there might be times when you prefer to play a longer sound clip. For example, you might want a particular song to accompany a slide, or you might want to play several cuts of music during a break in the slide show. The best way to set up these longer sound effects is to have PowerPoint play them directly from a CD. Here is how it works:

CAUTION

The license that comes with a commercial audio CD probably doesn’t allow you to play large chunks of the disc in a public setting. Short samples are fair use, but you need to be careful when using longer bits.

1. Insert the CD containing the audio track or tracks you want to use. (If you see the AutoPlay window, click the Close button or press Esc.)
2. In PowerPoint, navigate to the slide into which you want to insert the CD audio.
3. Choose the Insert, click the bottom half of the Sound split button, and then click Play CD Audio Track. PowerPoint displays the Insert CD Audio dialog box, shown in Figure 1.


Figure 1 Use the Insert CD Audio dialog box to specify the CD tracks you want to play with the current slide.

4. Use the Start at Track spin box to set the starting track number.
5. Use the End at Track spin box to set the ending track number.

TIP

If you want to play only part of a single track, specify the track’s number in both the Start at Track spin box and then End at Track spin box.Then use the Time spin box next to End at Track to specify the length of the clip.

6. If you want PowerPoint to keep playing the audio, click to activate the Loop Until Stopped check box.
7. To set the playback level, click the Sound Volume button and then use the Volume slider to set the level.
8. PowerPoint normally displays a sound icon on the slide. If you don’t want this icon to appear, click to activate the Hide Sound Icon During Slide Show check box.
9. Click OK. PowerPoint displays a dialog box that asks how you want the audio to start in the slide show.
10. Click Automatically to have the audio start right away; if you want to start the audio only when you click the sound icon (and assuming you didn’t opt to hide the sound icon in step 8), click When Clicked, instead.

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