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Adding music to your presentation.
There are many ways to improve your PowerPoint presentation---adding animations to objects, customizing slide transition styles, and using interesting themes to name a few. In addition to all that, you can also add music to your presentation.
PowerPoint makes it very simple to add music to your presentation. Adding music to your presentation may be a great idea, but there are also cases where it may be considered unprofessional. We’re not here to tell you when to do it, just how to do it, but make sure it’s appropriate for the situation.
Switch to the "Insert" tab and then click the “Audio” button.
A menu will appear, giving you the option to either upload music from your PC or record your own audio track.
If you’d like to record your own audio, select “Record Audio,” and the “Record Sound” window will appear. Go ahead and give your audio a name, then click the “Record” icon when you’re ready to start.
After the “Record” icon is selected, a timer will start which gives you the total length of the sound being recorded. Once you’re ready to stop recording, press the “Stop” icon. To listen to your recording, you can press the “Play” icon. If you’re happy with what you're recording, select “OK” to insert it into your presentation.
If you prefer to upload music from your PC instead, go back to the audio options menu and select “Audio on My PC.” This will open your PC’s directory. Locate the audio file you’d like to use, then select “Insert” at the bottom-right of the window. PowerPoint supports several popular formats, like MP3, MP4, WAV, and AAC.
Now you’ll see a speaker icon appear in your presentation. Here, you can play the audio, control the volume, and move the audio back or forward 0.25 seconds.
Additionally, the “Playback” tab appears in the ribbon. By default, the “Audio Style” is automatically set to “No Style.” This means that the audio will only play on the slide where you insert it, the icon will appear in the presentation, and the audio will only begin once you click that icon.
But you can change all that. You can use the options here to adjust the default playback volume, choose whether the music starts automatically or on a click, whether it plays across other slides, whether it loops until you stop it, and so on.
We’re going to change this by selecting “Play in Background” in the “Audio Styles” section.
There are a few other options available to you, as well. You can add (or remove) bookmarks for specific times in your audio clip, trim parts of the audio, and give your audio a fade in/out effect.
Use these tools to customize the perfect audio for your presentation.
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Insert music and time it
Play audio, such as music or a song automatically when a slide appears, while you are presenting, and time the slides to fit the music.
I want to play music in the background of this slide show and time the slides to fit the music.
Let's do that.
First, I'll insert the music file.
With the first slide displayed, I'll click INSERT , Audio , and Audio on My PC .
I'll select the music file, and click Insert .
The file is placed in the middle of the slide.
It is selected, and the AUDIO TOOLS tabs are available.
To set the music, so it plays in the background, on the PLAYBACK tab, I'll click Play in Background .
Note that this applies the following settings: the Start setting switches from On Click to Automatically .
And these three options are now checked: Play Across Slides , Loop until Stopped , and Hide During Show .
I don't need the music to repeat, so I'll uncheck Loop until Stopped .
While that turns off Play in Background , all the settings that I want are still in place.
Let's click Slide Show to see how this plays.
The music starts automatically and plays continuously, as I click, in the background of my slides.
Now, I want the slides to advance automatically, timed to match the length of the music.
So next, I'll add slide timings.
First, let's see how long the music clip is.
On Slide 1, I'll point to the audio icon to see the playbar. When I point to the end of the playbar, a pop-up shows the clip's total time, 14.89, which is about 15 seconds.
I'll set the slide timings with this in mind.
To set timings, click the TRANSITIONS tab, and under Advance Slide , check the After box. Then, specify a time. I'll click the up arrow to set the slide timing to 1.00 second.
Then, I'll click Apply To All . So, each slide will play for 1 second and then advance.
Now, 1 second per slide may seem too short, but note that the slides have a Fade transition applied too, and the transitions add to the total playing time.
For the last slide, I am going to increase the timing, though. I'll click the up arrow to 4 seconds, because the picture has a Fade animation.
I'll click the ANIMATIONS tab , Preview , so we can see it.
I need to allow time for that fade out.
The playing time for the slides should now be close to the 15 seconds for the music.
For good measure, let's click the SLIDE SHOW tab and make sure Use Timings is checked.
We are ready to see the show.
I'll press F5 to play it from the top.
The slides advance on their own, according to the timings, and the overall time fits with the music.
Finally, here is a file-management tip.
When we clicked Insert to insert the audio file, the file was embedded in the presentation, and that creates a large file size overall.
To reduce file size in a presentation with embedded audio, save the presentation, and click the FILE tab.
On the Info tab, under Properties , you'll see the file's size.
This presentation file is over 8 megabytes.
To make the presentation file smaller and more manageable for sharing, click Compress Media , and choose a type of compression, in terms of quality.
Let's try Internet Quality . The file gets compressed, and the Compress Media window shows the amount of space saved.
We'll close this window. When I save the file, and click FILE again, I see that the file size is reduced almost by half.
If I don't like the result of the compression, I can click Compress Media , Undo .
If you want to avoid the issue of a large file size, another option is to link to the audio file.
To do that, when you first insert the file, click the arrow next to Insert , and click Link to File .
When you present, you need to have access to the linked audio file from the presenting computer.
For more information about this, see the course summary at the end of this course.
Up next: Trim a music clip and fade it out .
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Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation. Record a slide show with narration and slide timings. Play music and other sounds automatically when a slide appears. Play audio for the duration of your slide show.
Adding Music to Your Presentation. There are many ways to improve your PowerPoint presentation---adding animations to objects, customizing slide transition styles, and using interesting themes to name a few. In addition to all that, you can also add music to your presentation.
Play audio, such as music or a song automatically when a slide appears, while you are presenting, and time the slides to fit the music. I want to play music in the background of this slide show and time the slides to fit the music.
Step 1: Open Your PowerPoint Presentation. Start by opening the PowerPoint presentation to which you want to add background music. Navigate to the slide where you want the music to begin. If you want the music to play across all slides, start on the first slide.
Much like adding videos, you can add music to individual slides in PowerPoint by navigating to “Insert” on the menu, then “Media,” and finally “Audio.” You can then import music from your device, or you can record your own audio directly in PowerPoint.
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