Powerpoint users please help?

Question

I am preparing a ppt for which i need to insert music which should run through out the presentation, without a break when switching over from one slide to the other. That is, the presentation should be automatic, without the users clicking on it, and with the music running through. Anyone can you please help me in this. A step by step instruction would be nice. Please help me...

Answer 1

Hey um I dont think you can do that on powerpoint, I know how to make it run without clicks, I can run you through that but im not sure about music, if your after something like that it might be worth some sort of movie making program - and insert pictures or slides into that with music. To make it run without clicks you can use the custom animation to run with previous and set delays in timing, this does not give your viewers much time to read it though but you could add some invisible objects and add delay so you can see the screen up there for a long time, after you do that you should go into slide transition and set advance slide to however you want it to wait before it advances the slide. That should help, now with the music side of it you can select sounds in slide transition and select a movie file but other than that im not sure unless you go into reccord naration in slide show. I hope that helps a little

Answer 2

A few things in preparation:

* How many slides are there

* Do you have music that will last the whole presentation and is it located on your computer (it is ideal to have a music file that will last the whole slide)

* Do you know how to create a powerpoint presentation

The following instructions assume you have some knowledge of powerpoint and are using Office XP (most other microsoft office suites will be simliar).



To make the presentation automatic:

When you save it, go file - save as - in the saves as type box, scroll and select .pps (powerpoint show).

This means it will start as soon as you open it and continue all the way to the end at a set pace (this is the easiest part). You may want to practice on a couple of dummy files so you can see what happens.



If you want to set the pace at which slides move from one to the next manually, this will be a bit more complicated and will involve using the slide transition function.



Insert the Music (if on your computer)

* Go to the first page of your presentation

* Click 'Insert' on the menu bar

* Go down to Movies and Sounds

* Go to 'Sound from File'

* Browse your computer and locate the file

* Either double click the music file or select it and click OK

* In Office XP when you do this it will ask if you want the music to start automatically in the slideshow, click 'Yes'

* A speaker file will appear on your powerpoint slide

* To hide this 'speaker' when the music plays

* Right click on the 'speaker'

* Scroll down to Custom Animation and click (a custom animation 'taskpane' will appear on the right)

* In the 'taskpane' you should see the name of your music file (or part of it).

* Click the drop down arrow to the right of your music file

* Select Effect Options

* Put a tick in the 'Hide when not Playing' box

* Click OK

Now file save as .pps and it should be all done.



You can get really technical with different effects, animations and slide transition effects but the above should work for you.



Hope this helps

Answer 3

In order to make the music play run through the slides, you should follow the hereinafter steps:

1. Click insert -> sound -> sound from file. Select the music you want to insert;

2. In the succeeding dialog box which say “How do you want the sound to start in the slide show? ”, please select “ Automatically”.

3. Select "Loop Until Stopped” at the "Sound Option" above the slide, at the same time, in the “Play Sound” item, select “play across slide”.

After you have done the three steps above, the music you desired can be played all over the slides.



You also can view

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3014#3014



Hope this can really help you!

Answer 4

When you insert an audio file on your presentation, you will be prompted if you want to play your audio automatically(it will play at the start of your slideshow) or not. then go to custom animation window and rightclick your audio that's inside the custom animation window...then click effect options.