Power Point question

[Chadd77]

I'm helping a friend put together a presentation for his parent’s anniversary party. He has all the pictures but now wants to add sound to it. Is there a way to actually import a music file into the presentation? I know you can add sound to it but it seems that power point it just builds a link to the file. It doesn't import the music file into the power point presentation. That way it can be opnened on any PC with power point and the music will play.

[coffee-guy]

Go to your first slide...

1. Click the insert button on the toolbar at the top of the screen. Hold your cursor over the Movies and Sounds label and select Sound from File

2. Select the file to be played and then select the "automatically" option or "when clicked" option depending on how you want it to start

3. Once the speaker symbol appears right click on it and select edit sound object - then select if you want the song to play on a loop and/or select to hide the speaker icon on the slide-show

4. Right click on the speaker icon again and select custom animation

5. Click on the title of the file in the screen on the right hand side of the window that shows up under the first slide animation scheme layout - then click on the drop-down menu/arrow and select effect options

6. From there you can select options for when to start the song, when to stop the song (you can play it for up to 999 slides if it's on a loop)

Hope that gets you where you want to go - let me know if not....

[Chadd77]

But i think that just builds a local link to the file it does not import the music into the presentation. If you were to take that same file and copy it to a CD and play it on another computer I do not think you would have the sound clip.

[coffee-guy]

I understand what you're saying but why can't you just burn that extra music file to your traveldrive/cd when you burn the pp to it - then whenever/wherever you choose to show the presentation you can just set it up in 2 minutes to link to that file???

[coffee-guy]

I understand what you're saying but why can't you just burn that extra music file to your traveldrive/cd when you burn the pp to it - then whenever/wherever you choose to show the presentation you can just set it up in 2 minutes to link to that file???

I just tried it out on my laptop using my jumpdrive as the music file location and it worked just fine???

[Chadd77]

Damn, I must be doing something wrong then. Let me try again.