Once your slide show is complete, you’ll need to present it. This booklet will teach you how to present your presentation and explain how to use the presentation tools. For other functionalities, please refer to the PowerPoint 2016: Intro to PowerPoint for Mac booklet.
Once you such as a music clip, to your PowerPoint presentation, you can let the inserted audio span across all your slides from the first one to the last by selecting the option. That's great if you need the same music playing on all your slides. But what if you want the music to play only across some successive slides? What if you want the music to play from slide 1 to 12, and let all subsequent slides play without any music?
Or you may want to add another audio clip for the next set of slides? Either way, it is possible to limit the number of slides that your music will play across. Remember: As far as possible, work with a presentation that has been saved at least once. Follow these steps to stop your music after specific number of slides in:.
We assume you have already added a music clip and set it to. In that case, proceed straightaway to Step 4 of this tutorial. Others can in the slide where you want the music to start playing. Now, select the music icon so that you can see the two contextual Audio Tools tabs in the. These two tabs are Format and Playback. Click the Playback tab to activate it, as shown in Figure 1 (highlighted in red).
Figure 1: Audio Tools Playback tab selected within the Ribbon. Within the Audio Tools Playback tab, select the Play Across Slides check-box as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2. Also select the Loop until Stopped (highlighted in blue within Figure 2) and the Hide During Show (highlighted in green within Figure 2) check-boxes. Figure 2: Required check-boxes selected to play the sound across slides. Now, access the Animations tab of the Ribbon.
Click the Animation Pane button, highlighted in red within Figure 3. Figure 3: Animation Pane button. This bring up the Animation Pane, as shown in Figure 4. Figure 4: Animation Pane Task Pane. Note: The Animations Pane button works as a toggle option as far its visibility of the Animations Pane Task Pane is concerned.
The first time you click the Animation Pane button (highlighted in red within Figure 3, above), the Animations Pane Task Pane becomes visible. If you click the same button again, this causes the Task Pane to be hidden. Within the Animation Pane Task Pane, you will see an animation associated with your audio clip (highlighted in red within Figure 4, above).
Double click this animation. This brings up the multi-tabbed Play Audio dialog box, as shown in Figure 5.
Within the Effect tab, locate the After radio button, it may contain a value of 999 slides now, as shown highlighted in red, within Figure 5. Figure 5: Do you want the music to span 999 slides? Tip: Why does the After option contain a value of 999 slides? That's because 999 is the largest number that PowerPoint can accept for spanning audio clips across slides, and Play Across Slides option that we chose earlier (see Figure 2, above) caused the After option to populate with the number, 999.
Now, change the value from 999 to the number of slides after which you want the music to stop. For example, you may want the audio clip to only play for 12 consecutive slides. In that case, replace 999 with 12. Once done, click the OK button to get back to your slide.
To delete an audio file:. Select the audio file you want to delete, then press the Backspace or Delete key on your keyboard. Editing audio You can modify your audio files using the commands on the Playback tab. For example, if you add a song to a slide you can trim it to play only a brief section. You can also add a fade in and fade out and can add bookmarks that allow you to jump to specific points in the audio file.
To trim an audio file:. Select the audio file, then click the Playback tab on the Ribbon. Volume: Changes the audio volume. Start: Controls whether the audio file starts automatically or when the mouse is clicked. Hide During Show: Hides the audio icon while the slide show is playing. Play Across Slides: Continues playing the audio file across multiple slides instead of just the current slide.
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Loop until Stopped: Replays the audio file until stopped. Rewind after Playing: Returns the audio file to the beginning when it is finished playing To change the audio icon: By default, an audio file will appear as a speaker icon in the slide. If you want, you can change the icon to a different picture. Select the audio file, then click the Format tab. Click the Change Picture command. For information on corrections, color adjustments, borders, shapes, and effects, check out our lesson on. Also, right-click this and save it to your computer.
Music credit: Something Small (Instrumental) by Minden, C.C. On slide 3, insert our example audio file. Move the file to the bottom-left corner of the slide. Trim the audio so the start time is around 00:15 and the end time is around 00:55.
Change the Fade Duration to 02:00 for fade in and 08:00 for fade out. Set the audio to Start Automatically and Play Across Slides. Change the icon to an online picture of your choice. When you're finished, your slide should look something like this.