I want to discuss with you how to
control the sound files and how to
navigate among them I pressed the pause
button to stop it from playing but if i
had not power points would have
continued to play the sound file until
it was over some sound clips are just a
few seconds while others are longer you
can use these controls to play pause and
stop the sound file the name of the
current sound file is beside the word
caption right below the controls I can
see that the current file is the lights
piano one I chose if you're not sure
this sounds file is the one you want to
use just click the next arrow and the
next sound file will open and start to
play
that sound file is called smooth jazzy
you can continue to advance and listen
to other sound files or press the
previous buttons to listen to previous
files then click the close button to
close the dialog box which ever sound
file was active in the preview window
when you closed it will be the file that
is selected in the task pane I think I'm
ready to insert the smooth jazzy sound
file before I do that I need to make
sure the slide where I want to insert
the sound is selected then I just need
to click the file in the clip art task
pane and a dialog box appears from here
you have to decide whether you want the
music to play automatically or whether
you want to click to activate it I'll
choose automatically now the sound icon
appears on the slide two new tabs appear
on the ribbon the sound tools options
tab and the picture tools format tab
from this point all the commands on both
taps work the same as when I inserted a
sound file that was stored on my
computer you can also play an audio CD
or specific songs on a CD during a
presentation to add sound from a CD
select the insert tab and click the
drop-down arrow on the sounds command
now choose place CD audio track the
insert CD audio dialog box appears to
add sounds from a CD you must have a
music CD inserted into the CD drive on
your computer if you do you can go ahead
and enter the information in the dialog
box in the clip selection area just
enter the number of the first track on
the CD you want to play and then enter
the number of the track where you want
to end you can type the number directly
into
field or use the arrows the time field
allows you to indicate at what time in
the first track you want to start
playing I want to start at the beginning
of track four so i'll leave that as it
is in the end track time field I need to
enter the time during the last track
that I want to stop playing I actually
want to play all of track six since it
is three minutes and two seconds long
I'll enter that here in the play options
section you can choose to loop the
tracks until stopped and adjust the
volume i think i will click to loop it
in the display options section you have
to decide whether you want to display or
hide the sound icon during the slideshow
I don't want that to be visible so i'll
just click to hide the sound icon once
all the information is entered click ok
then a dialog box appears you have to
decide whether to play the music
automatically or whether you want to
click to play the music I'll click
automatically and now a sound icon
appears on the slide since we're working
with a CD the sound icon is of a disc
again the options and format tab appear
on the ribbon this time however the
options tab is a bit different you can
see that it is a CD audio tools options
tab some of the commands are similar to
the ones we saw when we inserted other
sounds but you do have some new options
in the setup group adding sound and
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