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PPT97: How to Play Sounds Across Multiple Slides
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SUMMARY
This article describes how to play Wave (.wav) and/or MIDI (.mid) files
across multiple slides within a Microsoft PowerPoint 97 presentation.
NOTE: Sounds imported into a PowerPoint presentation do not play when moved
between platforms. To play the sounds, you must re-import them into your
presentation.
Also, if you open your presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint or
an earlier version of PowerPoint Viewer, the sounds do not play across
multiple slides.
MORE INFORMATION
To play sounds or music across multiple slides within PowerPoint 97, follow
these steps:
- Open your presentation.
- On the Insert menu, point to Movies And Sounds, and then click Sound
From Gallery, Sound From File, Play CD Audio Track, or Record Sound.
- After inserting the media (sound), select the media object, and then on the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.
- In the Custom Animation dialog box, click the Timing Tab and make sure the media object is selected.
- Click the Play Settings tab, and click to select the "Play using
animation order" check box. After you make this selection, some
additional options become available.
- By default, the Pause Slide Show option is selected. This setting allows the presentation to stop until the sound has finished playing or until the next slide is advanced. To play across multiple slides, you need to click to select the Continue Slide Show option. After you make this
selection, options for Stop Playing become available.
- The default for the options under Stop Playing is normally After Current Slide, which corresponds with the action for Pause Slide Show under
While Playing. To be able to play the media object across multiple
slides, you need to check the other option, After (Slide Number)
Slides. This setting determines when to stop the media object from
playing when in a slide show.
You can only play sounds across multiple slides in a presentation by using
the Movies And Sounds command on the Insert menu. If you try to use the
media player or Movie Player on the Macintosh, you are able to insert a
sound, but you do not have the ability to play it across multiple slides.
REFERENCES
For additional information on playing sounds across multiple slides in
earlier versions of PowerPoint, please see the following articles in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
135671Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=135671/EN-US/
)
PPT7: How to Play Sound Files Across Multiple Slides
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
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