Adding Sounds
What makes PowerPoint really great as a presentation tool is that you can add sound to your presentation. Let us explore this feature as we create the the sixth Slide.
1. Ensure that the fifth slide is displayed on your screen. Now add the ninth slide, and choose the Title Only Auto Layout.
2. In the Title placeholder, type: Please click on the icon below to listen to a sound. If required, adjust the placeholder to make the text fit inside it.
3. Click on the Insert menu, and move the mouse over the Movies and Sounds option. Another submenu opens.
4. Select the Record Sound sub-option.
5. Click on the Record Sound sub-option. The Record Sound dialog box appears. This dialog box lets you record sounds like music and voice messages just like a real-life cassette recorder.
6. Bring the microphone close to your mouth, click on the Record button and say the following words: Thanks for being with us.
7. Click on the Stop button (in between the Record and Play buttons) to stop the recording.
8. Play back the recorded sound to check if the sound is good.
9. Click OK.
10. The dialog box closes and an icon of a loudspeaker appears in your slide. This icon is an indication that sound has been embedded in your slide. However, to hear your sound, you will still have to wait a few more minutes.
You can record sound only if you have a microphone attached to your computer. If you do not have a microphone, you can insert a sound by selecting another sound file from the hard disk. After inserting the sound file from the hard disk, go to the topic Viewing Your Slides in Different Modes. There are two ways to open an existing presentation file, depending upon whether the PowerPoint program is running or not. If it is running, then use the Open option in the File menu. However, if it is closed, then restart PowerPoint, and in the initial PowerPoint dialog box, select the Open an existing presentation option.
