Adding Sound to a Presentation
Music can be playing the entire time a presentation is running. The sound has
to be added to the first slide. To avoid viewing the sound icon, move it to the
pasteboard area of the slide.
- From the Insert menu choose Movies and Sound and then Sounds from File
(MIDI files work well for this)
- The music icon is inserted on the slide.
- Drag the icon off the slide onto the gray pasteboard area around the
slide.
- Right-click the music icon and choose Custom Animation
- In the custom animation dialog box click the Multimedia Settings
- Make sure "Continue slide show" while playing is selected
- In the After xxx slides box insert the total number of slides in your
document. This will insure that the music plays throughout your
presentation.
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Viewing the Master
While you can choose to view the master from the view menu, master, slide
master you can easily get to the master by holding the Shift key down while
clicking the slide view button in the lower left corner of the screen
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Starting a Slide Show Automatically
You can set a document to start up in a slide show automatically when the
document is double-clicked
- Save the document
- In the Save as type pull down menu choose PowerPoint Show
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Promote and demote text from the keyboard
When working with bulleted text in PowerPoint you can use the promote or
demote arrows on the keyboard to move the text up or down the five predefined
levels. This can also be accomplished from the keyboard
