Several ways to insert sounds in PowerPoint.

(1) Use a certain piece of music as the background music of the entire presentation

If you use PowerPoint to create electronic photo albums or picture albums, people not only want to appreciate the exquisite pictures, but also want to listen to the to beautiful and beautiful music. We can perform the following operations on the first slide:

1. Prepare a music file, which can be in WAV, MID or MP3 file format.

2. Execute "Sound from File" in the "Movies and Sounds" option under the "Insert" menu, insert the sound file of your choice, and a dialog box will pop up asking whether to show the slideshow. To play the sound file automatically, select "Yes". A "speaker" icon will appear on the slide.

3. Right-click the "speaker" icon with the mouse and select "Custom Animation" in the pop-up shortcut menu.

4. In the "Multimedia Settings" tab of the "Custom Animation" dialog box, make the following settings:

While playing: select "Continue Slide Show"

Stop playing: Select "After XX slides". The specific number of slides after which depends on the number of slides in your photo album or picture album. For example, if the total number is 20, then Enter "20" here.

Then, click the "Other Options..." button on the tab, select "Loop until stopped" in the pop-up dialog box, and then click the "OK" button in turn to close each dialog. box.

Add narration when making courseware with PowerPoint

If we want to automatically play the narration of a certain slide when the slide is played, we can use the following Method:

1. First record the narration of the slide and save it as a sound file.

2. Select the slide you want to add narration to as the slide of the current operation, and execute the "Slide Switch" command under the "Slide Show" menu.

3. In the pop-up "Slide Switch" dialog box, perform the following operations:

In the drop-down list of "Sound", select "Other Sounds...", and then In the "Add Sound" dialog box that appears, select the sound file you have recorded, click "OK" to close the "Add Sound" dialog box, and then click "Apply" to close the "Slide Switch" dialog box.

If we want the presenter to decide whether to play the sound according to the situation, we can make an interactive button to control the sound to play or stop. This method is often used in courseware production. The specific steps are as follows:

1. First record the narration of the slide and save it as a sound file.

2. Select the slide you want to add narration to as the slide of the current operation, add two custom buttons on the slide, and add the words "Play Sound" and "Stop Playing Sound" respectively. ".

3. Right-click the "Play Sound" button with the mouse, select the "Action Settings" command in the pop-up shortcut menu, and then the "Action Settings" dialog box appears. On the "Click Mouse" tab Perform the following operations:

The action when clicking the mouse: select "No Action";

Play the sound: check "√" in front, and select "Other" in the drop-down list Sound", select the sound file you have recorded in the "Add Sound" dialog box that appears, click "OK" to close the "Add Sound" dialog box, and then click "OK" to close the "Action Settings" dialog box box.

4. Right-click the "Stop Playing Sound" button with the mouse, select the "Action Settings" command in the pop-up shortcut menu, and then the "Action Settings" dialog box appears. In the "Click Mouse" tab Perform the following operations:

Action when clicking the mouse: select "No Action";

Play sound: check "√" in front, and select " Stop previous sound" and click OK to close the Action Settings dialog box.

In order to better help you insert and play video files in PowerPoint courseware reasonably, this article introduces to you three methods of inserting and processing videos in PowerPoint.

Play video directly

This playback method is to insert the pre-prepared video file as a movie file directly into the slide. This method is the simplest and most intuitive one. Method, after using this method to insert the video file into the slide, PowerPoint only provides simple [Pause] and [Resume Play] controls, but no other more operation buttons to choose from. Therefore, this method is especially suitable for PowerPoint beginners. The following are the specific steps:

1. Run the PowerPoint program and open the slide that needs to insert the video file.

2. Move the mouse to the menu bar, click the "Insert" option there, and execute the "Insert Movie File" command from the open drop-down menu.

3. In the file selection dialog box that pops up, select the prepared video file and click the [Add] button to insert the video file into the slide.

4. Use the mouse to select the video file and move it to the appropriate position, then directly click the [Play] button to play the video according to the prompts on the screen, or select the automatic play method.

5. During playback, you can move the mouse to the video window and click once to pause the video. If you want to continue playing, just click again with the mouse.

Insert control to play video

This method is to insert the video file as a control into the slide, and then modify the control properties to achieve the purpose of playing the video. Using this method, there are a variety of operation buttons to choose from, and the playback process can be completely controlled by yourself, making it more convenient and flexible. This method is more suitable for situations where pictures, text, and videos in PowerPoint courseware are on the same page.

1. Run the PowerPoint program and open the slide into which the video file needs to be inserted.

2. Move the mouse to the menu bar, click the "View" option, select "Control Toolbox" from the open drop-down menu, and then select the [Other Controls] button from the lower-level menu.

3. In the control options interface that opens subsequently, select the "Windows Media Player" option, then move the mouse to the editing area of ??PowerPoint, draw a rectangular area of ??appropriate size, and then the area will be It will automatically change to the playback interface of Windows Media Player (Figure 1).

4. Use the mouse to select the playback interface, then right-click the mouse and select the "Properties" command from the pop-up shortcut menu to open the "Properties" window of the media playback interface.

5. In the "Properties" window, correctly enter the detailed path and file name of the video file that needs to be inserted into the slide in the "File Name" setting item. In this way, when the slideshow is opened, the specified video can be played through the [Play] control button.

6. In order to better organize the inserted video files with the slides, you can also modify the positions of the control bar, playback slider bar and video property bar in the "Properties" settings interface.

7. During the playback process, you can control the video through the [Play], [Stop], [Pause] and [Adjust Volume] buttons in the media player.

Insert object to play video

This method inserts the video file as an object into the slide. Different from the above two methods, it can choose the actual need as you like. Play the video clip and then play it again. The implementation steps are:

1. Open the slide where the video file needs to be inserted, click the "Insert/Object" command to open the "Insert Object" dialog box.

2. After selecting the "New" option, select the "Video Clip" option in the corresponding "Object Type" setting bar, and click the [OK] button (Figure 2).

3. PowerPoint automatically switches to the video property setting state, execute the "Insert Clip/Windows Video" command, and insert the prepared video file into the slide.

4. Execute the "Edit/Options" command to open the option setting box, where you can set whether the video needs to be played in a loop or whether to go backwards after playing, etc. Click [OK] to return to the video properties. Setting interface.

5. Click the video [In Point] button and [Out Point] button in the toolbar to reset the start point and end point of the video file, so that you can select the video clip you want to play. Purpose.

6. Click the blank area of ??the setting interface with the left mouse button to exit the video setting interface and return to the slide editing state. You can also use the preview command to check the editing effect of the video