Karaoke or Sing-a-Long

Step 1 - Insert Music  or Record Sound        Step 2 - Rehearse timings

Insert Music

Click on the first slide

From the Menu Bar, click Insert  

Movies and Sound  
Sound from file  
Select the sound/music of your choice  
Click OK  
Click “Yes” to play automatically  
Drag the sound icon off the slide to the left if you wish

With the sound icon selected, go to the Menu Bar and click Slide Show

Click Custom Animation

From the Multimedia tab, be sure there is a checkmark “Play using animation order”

Click “continue slide show”  
Click “After”  
Change the number to one more than the number of slides in the presentation  
If the sound clip is shorter than the time of your slide show:  click “More Options”  
Click loop until stopped

Click OK  
Click OK again

Now Rehearse Timings (see instructions below)

  OR

Record a sound or comment on a single slide

To do this procedure, you'll need a microphone. For Humpty Dumpty, I played an mp3 file on one computer, placed the microphone next to the speaker, then proceeded with the following steps.

1.      Display the slide you want to add a sound to.

2.      On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then click Record Sound.

3.      To record the sound, click Record.

4.      When you are finished, click Stop.

5.      In the Name box, type a name for the sound, and then click OK. A sound icon appears on the slide.

Tip   To animate the sound so that it plays automatically in an animation sequence, select the sound icon, click Custom Animation on the Slide Show menu, and then select the options you want.

Rehearse Timings (Set transition time between slides)

From the Menu Bar, click Slide Show

Click Rehearse Timings

As you view the slide show, press the space bar to go to the next slide.

Or, you can use the buttons in the Rehearsal dialog box to pause between slides, restart a slide, and advance to the next slide.

PowerPoint keeps track of how long each slide appears and sets the timing accordingly. When you finish, you can accept the timings or you can try again.

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Last updated June 23, 2011 ~ Mrs. K. Bradley
kbradley@otsegoknights.org