Make sure you save your presentation often. Test if your audio clip plays as expected.Thereafter bring up the Play Audio dialog for this audio clip, as shown in Figure 6, above, and type in the number of slides you want this new audio clip to span in the After box. If you want your first music clip to play from slide numbers 2 to 8, and then start another music clip on slide 10 that plays for several more consecutive slides, go ahead and add a new audio clip on slide 10.Doing so brings up the Animations Task Pane, as shown in Figure 5, below.Click the Animation Pane button, highlighted in red within Figure 4, below.įigure 4: Click the Animation Pane button Now, access the Animations tab of the Ribbon.
Also, select the Loop until Stopped check-box, highlighted in blue within Figure 3, and the Hide During Show check box, highlighted in green within Figure 3.įigure 3: Required check-boxes selected to play the sound across slides Again, within the Playback tab, select the Play Across Slides check-box, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3, below.Within the Playback tab, click the Start drop-down list, and choose the Automatically option, highlighted in red within Figure 2, below.įigure 2: Play across slides option within the Start drop-down list.Microsoft PowerPoint stays ahead of the curve as it releases innovative new features, still remaining the tried and true presentation software of the industry. They only make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options. Import a Video from a File into PowerPoint: Embed a video located on the computer hard drive. Contextual tabs are special tabs in the Ribbon that are not visible all the time. The Playback and Format tabs are contextual tabs.
This may take a couple of seconds or a few minutes depending on the size of your presentation.