In powerpoint is there any way that the sound clip can continue through the whole presentation?

Question

In stead of having to start again each time a new slide shown, can the same piece of music be used for the whole presentation?

Answer 1

Yes you can although it's not obvious how to do this - you need to tell PPT when to stop the sound.

Good advice from wk_coe to search for "sound" in PPT since we don't know your version.

Here's the technique for PPT2003:

1. Display the slide to which you want to add music or sound effects.

2. On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then do one of the following:
- Insert a sound file
- Insert a sound clip from Clip Organizer

3. Double-click the sound file that you want to insert.

4. When a message is displayed, do one of the following:
- To play the music or sound automatically when you go to the slide, click Automatically.
- To play the music or sound only when you click the sound icon <| , click When Clicked.

5. To adjust the settings for when the sound file stops, click the sound icon <| , right-click, and then click Custom Animation.

6. In the Custom Animation task pane, click the arrow on the selected item in the Custom Animation list, and then click Effect Options.

7. On the Effect tab, under Stop playing, do one of the following:
- To stop the sound file on mouse-click of this slide, select On click (the default).
- To stop the sound file after this slide, select After current slide.
- To keep the sound file playing for several slides, select After, and then set the total number of slides the file should play on.

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Whew, ain't that pain! Thanks Microsoft!

Answer 2

Search sound in Powerpoint Help as per your version.