Music playing in powerpoint

Hi Harriet

I was able to achieve this by using the Insert tab from the Ribbon and using Audio (within Media Group).

Providing you have some form of sound output, you should then be able to browse for the appropriate music file and insert it from your PC.

You may wish to insert it on Slide 1 initially and it will display with a speaker icon.

In order to have it play for the duration of your slide show I suggest you look at the following sections:

With speaker icon selected use the Audio Tools - Playback tab to trim audio and set fade in/out of necessary.

On same tab you can set icon to 'Hide During Show' and in Start option I suggest you choose Play across slides.

The other I would suggest you do is look into the timings of the presentation. If you wanted each slide to display for the same amount of time, you could carry out a simple calculation whereby you divide the length of the song by the number of slides (= x seconds) and then in the Transitions - Timing part of ribbon set each slide to Advance automatically after x seconds.

Once you've done all this I suggest you just check it out so that it meets your requirements by running the slide show through / rehearsing timings if necessary.

I hope this helps

- David