PowerPoint 2003: Adding Background Music from a CD

Lesson 24: Adding Background Music from a CD

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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 InsertMovies 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.

Tip If you want to insert music from a digital file, select InsertMovies and SoundsSound from File and follow the instructions that appear in the task pane.