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How to play sounds across multiple slides in PowerPoint 2000
This article was previously published under Q198214
For a Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 version of this
article, see
322073Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=322073/
)
.
For a Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 for Macintosh,
PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition version of this article, see
188734Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=188734/
)
.
For a Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows version of
this article, see
176565Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=176565/
)
.
This article describes how to play Wave (.wav), MP3 (.mp3),
and/or MIDI (.mid) files across multiple slides within a Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation.
NOTE: Sounds imported into a PowerPoint presentation do not play when
they are moved between platforms. To play the sounds, you must reimport 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.
To play sounds or music across multiple slides within
PowerPoint 2000:
- 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 click Custom Animation on the Slide Show menu.
- In the Custom Animation dialog box, click the Timing tab and make sure the media object is selected.
- Click the Multimedia 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.
For additional information on playing sounds across
multiple slides in earlier versions of PowerPoint, please click the article
numbers below to view the 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 2000 Standard Edition
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