PowerPoint Tutorial: Adding Sound to a PowerPoint Show
Finding and Downloading Sound Files
There are many sites where you can download or buy MIDI or Audio files on the web. Many of these sites offer illegal sound clips. Finding sound clips on the Web is very easy--simply do a search for sound clips, and you'll be directed to many different web pages. Just be sure that you can legally use these sound clips before putting them on your site.
Source: Project Cool
http://www.projectcool.com/developer/audioz/AZmaking/index.html
Sound Resources
At the Microsoft Developer's Network they have an on-line Table of Contents of Sound Files arranged by category http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sounds/toc.htm
The Classical Midi Archives is a good site for obtaining MIDI files http://www.prs.net/midi.html
Mail Sounds http://wso.williams.edu/~eudora/eudora-alert-sounds.html
You get the idea!
A Yahoo search for "sounds clips" http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=sound+clips returns over 2000 category matches -- everything from movie clips to spooky Halloween sounds, even Cyber-Seuss links you to http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/wavs.html
Presenters University also provides links to free sound file sources on the Internet.
From the Presenters University Web site:http:///www.presentersuniversity.com, lick on Downloads.
Select “Presentation Resources” from the left navigation and scroll down to the Sound Files area.
Click on Sound Files, this will link you to Audio Browser Sound Files at:
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
IMPORTANT NOTES: If you are trying to access this link from behind a corporate firewall, you may be denied access because of the web policies of webplaces.com. Once connected, MID, RMI and WAV are the easiest to work with, but you can import a AU file into the Clip Gallery!
Scroll down to the bottom to Wav Central: Effects With your RIGHT mouse button, right click on intel.wav Choose Open in New Window
Open a PowerPoint Presentation, and move to the slide where you want to insert a sound.
Point to C:\Multimedia Files\Music (or wherever you just saved the intel.wav file) Click on intel.wav then press the key.
Double click on the speaker icon to play with sound to test the sound. You can move and re-size the speak icon as desired. NOTE: During a presentation, a single mouse click will play the sound file.
Procedure 2 Adding the Sound to the Clip Art Gallery:
From the Insert Menu, choose Movie and Sounds then choose Sound from Gallery
In the lower right hand corner of the screen, click on Import Clips
Point to C:\Multimedia Files\Music (or wherever you just saved the intel.wav file) Click on intel.wav then press the key.
Add the keyword description, “Intel Pentium Sound” to the Clip Properties dialog box then press the <Enter> key
Finally, Click on the Insert button in the upper left hand corner. The intel.wav file is now a permanent part of your clip art gallery!
Procedure 3: Adding an Action Sound
From the Slide Show Menu, choose Action Buttons then DOUBLE CLICK on the Action Button: Sound
This will insert a large speaker button icon and bring up an Action Setting dialog box < p> You can set an action for a Mouse Click during a presentation, or for moving the Mouse Over the icon during a presentation.
Make sure there is a check mark next to Play Sound.
Click on the down arrow next to the Applause sound. Scroll to the bottom of the list and choose, “Other Sound…”
Point to C:\Multimedia Files\Music (or wherever you just saved the intel.wav file)
Click on intel.wav then press the key.
Finally, click on the OK button
You can move and re-size the speak icon as desired. During a presentation, a single mouse click will play the sound file.
And there you have it – three ways to add a custom sound to a PowerPoint presentation!
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