Show you how to insert multiple music to PowerPoint presentation with step-by-step illustrations.

Steps

  1. 1
    Take PowerPoint 2007 for example. PowerPoint 2003 is similar with it.
  2. 2
    Insert a Sound File ( let the sound play through slide 5 to slide 8, assume that the presentation has 20 slides .)
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  3. 3
    At slide 5, click insert -> sound -> sound from file. Select the music you want to insert;
  4. 4
    In the succeeding dialog box which say “How do you want the sound to start in the slide show, please select “Automatically”.
  5. 5
    In the ribbon, click Animation -> Custom Animation.
  6. 6
    In the Custom Animation task pane, click the arrow on the selected item in the Custom Animation list, and then click Effect Options.
  7. 7
    On the Effect tab, under Stop playing, click After * slides, and then input 8 to the box.
  8. 8
    On the Timing tab, at the Repeat item, please select End of slide.
  9. 9
    After this the sound file can play through slide 5 to slide 8. If you want to add other sound file to it, do the same to other sound files.
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Community Q&A

  • Question
    Is it possible to have two or more audio files in one slide?
    Community Answer
    Community Answer
    Yes. You can embed them into the powerpoint or have a hyperlink to their storage location (which makes your file huge), then you either have them play automatically using the animation timeline or assign a user action to trigger them ('click here' type of thing with an icon, button, etc.).
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Updated: January 11, 2019
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Categories: PowerPoint Insertions
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