How to Add Sound
to a PowerPoint Presentation

Adding Sound to a PowerPoint Presentation

Before using this tutorial, please know that it is specific to a PowerPoint 2003 and may not be user-friendly in any other version, although I have had a report that these instructions do work with Front Page 2000.

Open your presentation in PowerPoint.

On the top Menu Bar, Click on "Insert", then "Movies & Sounds", then "From File".

Now click on the chosen music file, then "OK".

In the resulting pop-up box, click on "Automatically".

Back in PowerPoint:
Click on "View" in the top menu bar, then on "Task Pane".

Click on the down arrow at the top right of the task pane.

Click on "Custom Animation".

Click on the down arrow beside your music file, then on "Effect Options".

Click on the "Effect" tab, then, in the "Stop Playing" section, click on the radio button beside "After", then fill in the number of slides you want the music to stop playing after.

Now click on the remaining top tabs to set other settings, then on "OK".

You can now press the F5 key on your keyboard to listen and make sure the presentation is doing what you want it to do with the new sound file.