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By default, when inserting an audio file into a PowerPoint slide, the file only plays on one slide, and when transitioning to another slide, it automatically stops. This article will guide you through all the steps and various options to add sound to each slide or continuously across all slides in your presentation. Depending on the Office version, some menus may have different options, but the procedure is similar.
Inserting sound, audio, music into PowerPoint
How to Add Sound, Audio, Music into PowerPoint
Here, we'll demonstrate with PowerPoint 2010 version. Simply follow the steps below
Step 1: Open PowerPoint, click on Insert from the software menu and choose Audio => Audio From File
Locate the path to the Audio file you want to insert then click Ok
Step 2: Next, navigate to the Animations tab and click on Animations Pane (for PowerPoint 2003, 2007 versions, it will be Custom Animation).
Step 3: The Animations Pane toolbox dialog appears on the right side of the PowerPoint window. Click on the downward triangle on the sound file icon (the speaker) and select Effect Options
Step 4: The Effect Options window appears, check the box From beginning which means the sound file will start from the inserted slide. And in After section, input the number of slides where you want the sound file to play. Click Ok to save the changes.
So that's how you insert music into PowerPoint to play across slides. In case you're using Word 2003 and want to insert sound into your document, refer to how to insert music into Word 2003 here to enrich your document.
In addition, PowerPoint offers many other useful tricks such as Adding Backgrounds, inserting images into PowerPoint slides, Inserting Slide Templates in PowerPoint, or Attaching files to PowerPoint... which will surely benefit your work. Wishing you success!
