adding music to a powerpoint presentation

[Richard Reece]

I have a timed PowerPoint presentation that works
beautifully-slides automatically go from one to the next
per scheduled timing. I went to insert and inserted track
3 of a professional music CD. Now the music plays, but
the presentation is stuck on slide one.

So I removed the music and now the slide timing is gone.

Question: how do I get the music to play and the slides
to go in their pre planned timing sequence?

how do I get the original timing to return to the
presentation?

Thanks

Richard Reece
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[Kathryn Jacobs]

Check out this PPT FAq page:
Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm

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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

By default an inserted sound will play for the current slide only. To get a
sound to play for more than the current slide you have to adjust the
animation settings for the sound.

PowerPoint 97 & PowerPoint 2000:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=176565

PowerPoint 2002 & PowerPoint 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=322073

A very cool option in PowerPoint 97 is the Custom Soundtrack add-in. The
PowerPoint Custom Soundtrack Add-in allows you to add
electronically-generated background music to your slide shows. You can
install this add-in from the following folder on the Office 97 compact
disc:

<drive>:\ValuPack\MusicTrk

If you have installed this add-in with PowerPoint 97 and have then upgraded
to PPT 2000 or PPT 2002 you can continue to use the add-in by using the
instructions in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

218513 PPT: SNDTRK: Cannot Install PowerPoint Custom Soundtrack Add-In
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=218513

218525 PPT: SNDTRK: "PowerPoint couldn't open the Visual Basic for
Applications
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=218525

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions as to how
PowerPoint might change it's features for playing "background" sound, don't
forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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your case as clearly and completely as possible.

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Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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[Guest]

Under Slide show, custom animation click the multimedia tab at the top of the dialog box. Put a check in the media 1 box. That highlights the option to have the music play through the number of slides in your presentation.