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Sound Across Slides
Works with PowerPoint 2004 on the Mac
See Also: Sound Across Slides in all PowerPoint versions
by Geetesh Bajaj, June 26th 2008
Remember: As far as possible, work with a presentation that has been saved at least once; then copy any sound/music file you want to loop to the same folder as the presentation as you can see in Figure 1 -- and then follow these steps.
Figure 1: PowerPoint presentation and
sound file
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Follow these steps to loop a music (or any sound) file across slides in PowerPoint 2004 on the Mac:
- Navigate to the slide where you want the sound to
begin playing, which is usually the first slide of the
presentation. Go to Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound
from File (highlighted in red), as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Sound from file
- Locate the sound file you want to play,
and click Insert, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Insert Sound
- PowerPoint will prompt you if you want to have the sound on the slide play
automatically, as shown in Figure 4. Choose Yes.
Figure 4: Play automatically
- Control-click (or right-click) the sound icon placed in the center of the slide, and choose Custom
Animation from the contextual menu as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Right-click menu
- This opens the Custom Animation dialog box that you can see in Figure 6 -- with
the inserted sound pre-selected as the object to animate.
Figure 6: Custom Animation
- With the sound object still selected, click the Effect Options button to bring up a dialog box of the same name. Select the Media Options tab as shown in Figure 7 -- and type in "999" in the Stop playing After text box (see Figure 7).
Note: You type 999 here since that's the largest number that PowerPoint will allow you to add here.
Figure 7: Effect Options
- Click OK to get back to the Custom Animation dialog box -- and click OK again to get back to your slide. Now control-click (or right-click) the sound icon placed in the center of the slide again, and choose the Edit Sound Object option (refer to Figure 5 above).
- This summons the Sound Options dialog box that you can se in Figure 8 below. Make sure you check the option that says Loop until stopped (highlighted in red).
Figure 8: Sound Options
- Click OK -- in all versions of PowerPoint, you might see a sound
icon on the slide where you inserted the sound - if you
don't like the icon on the slide, just drag it to anywhere
off the slide - your sound shall still play fine.
Tip: Save your presentation often!.
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