Powerpoint always inserts a Loudspeaker icon to represent sounds (e.g. mp3)

[Russ Sherlock]

Powerpoint always inserts a Loudspeaker icon to represent sounds (e.g. mp3)
on a slide.
How do you change this icon to a picture of your own choosing?

Russ Sherlock

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Russ

If you use 2007 you can right click the loud speaker icon and select change
picture. If you use an earlier version you can drag the icon off the slide
then add a picture/icon of your choosing -> slide show -> custom animation ->
drop down arrow next to your sound file -> timing -> triggers -> start effect
on click of -> select your pic/logo from the drop down list. I have a feeling
triggers were introduced in XP/2002 so if you have 2000 or before I don't
know if it's possible.

Lucy

 

[Russ Sherlock]

Hi Lucy

Using Powerpoint 2003.

I need the Picture to auto-hide when clicked. (The original Sound Icon can
and does)

Many thanks

Russ Sherlock

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Powerpoint always inserts a Loudspeaker icon to represent sounds (e.g. mp3)
on a slide.
How do you change this icon to a picture of your own choosing?

Tagging onto Lucy's answer:

You can also add a Play Sound action to any shape you like, including pictures.

Rightclick the shape, choose Action Settings.
In the Action Settings dialog box, put a check next to Play Sound then choose
one of the existing sounds or scroll down to Other Sound and browse to the
sound you want to insert.

Note: This only accepts WAV sounds (though CDEX might be able to fool PPT into
accepting an MPG as a WAV), and any sounds added this way are *always*
embedded. That's often just what you'd want to happen, of course.

 

[Russ Sherlock]

Regretably the sound is a MIDI file...

Russ Sherlock

 

[John Wilson]

It is possible to change midi files to Cdex'd mp3 files but there will be
quite an increase in file size. We've done a few for people and not
surprizingly the increase was pretty big (still much less than a wav though.)
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[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Russ

Add an exit animation (disappear) to the picture, drag the animation to
below the sound file animation in the taskpane and set to 'with previous'.
That should do it.

Lucy

 

[Russ Sherlock]

The MIDI contains control change information used to control room lighting
during the presentation.

Russ Sherlock

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The MIDI contains control change information used to control room lighting
during the presentation.

A regular sound file's not going to help with that, no WAY/V. <g>

If an appropriate program plays the MIDI when you doubleclick it outside PPT,
you could try an action setting of Run Program and type in the path to the MIDI
file in the box supplied.