How to Add Music to PowerPoint

You have a Power Point Presentation and would like to add music to it. Adding music to Power Point really brings your presentation to life. If you have never used the feature of adding music to Power Point you may find it challenging. However if you follow these steps you will find it very easy to do and most likely will use the music feature in power point quite often.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Music
• Power Point software

1. 
    

   Download the music that you want on your presentation onto your computer. Insert the CD and choose Windows media play or Real play. Click 'rip' to copy the music from the CD onto your computer.

2. 
    

   Open the Power Point presentation. When you have the presentation opened in front of you, click on the first slide. Go to the icon “insert” and scroll down to the words “movies and sounds.” At this point you will have a choice to add a sound from clip organizer or from file. Choose file and search your files to find the music that you burned to your computer.

3. 
    

   Click on the music that is desired and a box will pop up with a question. “Do you want the music to start in the slide show automatically or when clicked? Usually if you are using music you are using it throughout the whole presentation so you would click “automatically,” but their may be times when you prefer to set it up so it plays “when clicked.”

4. Right click on the sound icon after the music has been applied to the slide show. Then click on the words “custom animation.” At the right will be a box. At the top of this box, under “modify play,” click “with previous.”

5. 
    

   To have the music continuously play throughout all screens, right click on the sound listed in this box and arrow down to “effects option.” This is how you will let Power Point know when the program should stop playing the music.

6. 
    

   Preview the slide show. Click on slide show and then view to make sure the music is playing the way you want it to throughout your presentation. These are the basic steps to add music to your power point presentation. Be creative and have fun!

Tips & Warnings

• If you make mistakes just click “undo” under the edit button.
• Remember to save your work.

Resources

• Sounds for Power Point

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