Play sounds across multiple slides

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LilyAndrew via OfficeKB.com

Play sounds across multiple slides
Problem
Sounds stop playing when you move onto the next slide, but you want them to
play across multiple slides or even for the entire presentation.
If you use PowerPoint 2000 (and PowerPoint 97 works much the same)
Choose Insert, Movies and Sounds, then click Sound From Gallery (or Sound
From File or Play CD Audio Track or Record Sound). Insert the sound. If you
don't want the sound icon to appear in the slide show, drag it just off the
slide.
Right-click the sound's icon and pick Custom Animation from the popup menu.
Click the Multimedia Settings tab and make certain that the object is
selected.
Click to put a checkmark next to Play using animation order.
Click to select Continue slide show. This tells PowerPoint NOT to stop
playing the sound when you move to the next slide.
Under Stop Playing, click After and dial in the number of slides you'd like
the sound to play through. If you want the sound to continue through the end
of the presentation, dial in a really big number.
That's all there is to it. Your sound will now continue after you leave the
slide on which you placed it.
NOTES:
This only works with sounds you've brought in via Insert, Movies and Sounds.
If you use the media player, it may not work as expected.
If you're having difficulty with a CD audio track in PPT 97, check to see if
it's the last track on the CD. If it is, check
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q193119
If you convert your presentation to HTML for use on the web, sounds added
this way won't play across multiple slides.
And if you use PowerPoint 20002/XP
Choose Insert, Movies and Sounds, then click Sound From Clip Organizer (or
Sound From File or Play CD Audio Track or Record Sound). Insert the sound. If
you don't want the sound icon to appear in the slide show, drag it just off
the slide.
Say yes when asked if you want the sound to play automatically. If you are
not asked this, don't worry, the next steps will let you set that (or double-
check the settings if you were asked and said yes.)
Right-click the sound's icon and pick Custom Animation from the popup menu.
The Custom Animation pane will open and your sound file should be listed.
Click the arrow directly to the right of the sound icon to pull down the
various options.
Select Effect Options, and on the Effects tab, click the radio button beside
Stop Playing after XXX slides. Put 999 in the box so the track will play
throughout all your slides, even if you go back and forth among slides. PPT
considers each transition a "slide," so you want to put a large number in
there.
Now check the settings in the Timing tab. To play automatically, the timing
should be set to Start After Previous with a 0-second delay.Click OK to close
the dialog box.
NOTES:
If you're having difficulty playing more than one CD audio track in a PPT
2002/XP presentation, it's because the settings need to be a little different
than what you'd expect in the custom animation pane Effects tab.
For example, your presentation has 100 slides. You want the first CD track to
play from slides 1-30 and the second CD track to play from slides 31-100.
Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the first CD track should be Start
Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides. (If you put stop playing
after 30 slides as you'd expect to do, the second track won't play.)
Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the second CD track should also be
Start Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides.
You can also put the 999 instead of 100 in the "Stop Playing After XXX Slides.
" The point here is that you need to put at least the entire number of slides
in the presentation in that "Stop Playing After" box, not the actual number
of slides you want the sound to stop playing after.
 
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Glen Millar

Hi,

You can read the original here:

http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00047.htm

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
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