How to put music on a presentation: tips for beginners

A well-designed presentation can get even better if you put music on it. Specialists say that in this case, the material will be better perceived by the audience, and it will be much more pleasant by ear. But how to put music on the presentation? In this material, we will consider in detail all the features of this process.

The question of how audio files are placed on the presentation arises quite regularly, since Microsoft itself has implemented the process of superimposing it quite extensively and done it in a way that is far from intuitive.

Immediately note that we will consider the process of creating a presentation using the example of MS Office 2010 and later, since they are the most common in recent times. In addition, the design for presentations in these versions of the office is the richest.

Immediately note another offensive omission developers: in a huge variety of compressed sound formats, they still offer to use only waw, not offering the user absolutely no alternative. If in your music collection there are only mp3 files, then you will have to look for some means for their conversion. Transferring music to waw format, we continue to create powerpoint presentations with music.

Create a new presentation file, or open an existing document, go to the "Animation" tab, look for the "Go to this slide" section, where we open the menu with the title "Transition sound". In it, you need to click on the item "Another sound", and use the opened Explorer window to tell the system where on your computer there is an audio file with the music you need. Again open the menu, where the checkbox should be marked "Continuous".

Unfortunately, every item and slide in your project will have to be processed manually, because there is no packet overlay. Since you can apply music to a presentation in this way only for each slide and transition separately, the sound will be cut off when you move to another point in the project.

Naturally, this advice is suitable only for beginners, who make their first steps in the design of similar projects. Professionals, who are interested in the professional quality of the works they create, do not need such little possibilities. But how to put music on a presentation that would be played continuously throughout its entire length? To make it more difficult.

Using the "Insert" tab, place the desired music file in your document. A sign of success will be the speaker icon that appears on the slide. Again go to the tab "Animation". We click on the button with the name "Animation settings". Immediately thereafter, you will see the "Customize animation" working panel. It will display the duration of playback of a specific file, made in the form of a kind of "ruler".

Click on the drop-down list in the same window and select "Effect parameters" in it. Expand the "Effect" tab, which will be "Finish", offering the opportunity to stretch the music to the desired number of slides.

So, you learned how to put music on the presentation!