Introduction

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• Add background music from a CD to a presentation
• Hide the sound icon in Slide Show view
• Loop the selected music through the entire slide show

Adding background music from a CD

You may want to add background music to some of your PowerPoint presentations. For example, if you create a slide show of family pictures, you may want play music in the background. If you give a presentation at work, you could play music during the introduction slides before you speak.

To add background music from a CD:

• Select the first slide where you want the music to play.
• Select Insert Movies and Sounds .
• Select Play CD Audio Track . The Insert CD Audio dialog box will appear.
• Verify that you have a CD in the CD drive of your computer.
• Select the track number to start playing.
• Select the track number where you want to end .
  
  For example, if you want to only play tracks five and six of the CD, list track 5 as your start track and track 6 as your end track.
• Select Loop until Stopped to continue playing the music until the slide show is complete.
• Select Hide sound icon during slide show .
  
  
• Click OK .
• Click Automatically to start the music when the slide appears. The CD sound icon will appear.

If you want to insert music from a digital file, select Insert Movies and Sounds Sound from File and follow the instructions that appear in the task pane.

Challenge!

If you have not already done so in a previous challenge, download and save the Sample PowerPoint presentation to complete this challenge.

• Open the Sample PowerPoint presentation.
• Insert a CD into your computer's CD drive.
• Add tracks 2 and 3 as background music to the presentation.
• Hide the sound icon from view.
• Play the presentation in Slide Show view .
• Close the presentation without saving the file.