Adding Music to PP Presentation

[Guest]

I have a PP presentation in which I want to add two songs. I enter the first
song on the first slide, using "Insert", Movies and Sounds," "Sound from
File" then click on the song file I want.

Then under slide transition, I click on "automatic after" and then set the
number of seconds for each slide.

When I now play the slide show, I cannot get past the first slide. Nothing
is automatic. The music plays however the slides do not advance even with a
mouse click. I have not even tried to get the second song going. If I remove
the sound file, every thing works fine.

Any advice would be appreciated. I am not the most technical person so it
would help if any advice was in simple English.

Bob Trocchi

 

[Guest]

Double click on the play effect in Custom Animation.
Under Start playing, change to "From last position". Will that work?
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[Guest]

You will need to change the "stop playing" setting

In custom animation > effect options change stop playing to "after x slides
" (x is number of slides you have) If you dont the slide transistion will
wait for the music to end.

 

[Guest]

tohlz and wilson...

I have tried do both of what you have offered and I cannot find the things
you both mention. In tohlz's suggestion, I cannot find the "play effect"
When I go to custom animation, i.e. "slide show, custom animation" the task
pane has no active links and nothing that states start playing.

In John's suggestion, I can find "modify options" which I assume is what you
meant however there is nothing that states stop playing after x slides.

I have windows xp, professional edition, and PP 2003. I also have a CD that
was given to me some time ago with a pp presentation including some 5
different songs on it and it works perfectly.

So I am still confused. Thanks so much for trying and if you have any
additional ideas, I surely would appreciate them.

bob trocchi

 

[Guest]

tohlz and wilson...

I have tried do both of what you have offered and I cannot find the things
you both mention. In tohlz's suggestion, I cannot find the "play effect"
When I go to custom animation, i.e. "slide show, custom animation" the task
pane has no active links and nothing that states start playing.

In John's suggestion, I can find "modify options" which I assume is what you
meant however there is nothing that states stop playing after x slides.

I have windows xp, professional edition, and PP 2003. I also have a CD that
was given to me some time ago with a pp presentation including some 5
different songs on it and it works perfectly.

So I am still confused. Thanks so much for trying and if you have any
additional ideas, I surely would appreciate them.

bob trocchi

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Click Slide Show > Custom Animation.
This will bring up the custom animation pane.
If you have inserted a sound through (Insert > Movies and Sounds > Sound
from file), you will see a "play effect". Did you?
If yes, double click on it. This will bring up the effect options, where you
can continue from there.
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Site Updated: April 13, 2006
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[Guest]

As Tohlz says - if youre really stuck email me the file.