Boost your presentation with audio from a cd

You can enhance your presentation with audio and

save time when you play audio directly from a CD. It

is not necessary to upload music to your computer’s

hard drive in order to play it from PowerPoint.

Instead, you can instruct PowerPoint to play audio

directly from the CD player in your computer.

For example, if you want to play music from a CD

before and after a seminar and during breaks, you can

insert audio into introductory, break, and conclusion

slides to play directly from a CD. You can even specify

exactly what tracks on the CD you want to play.

You can also choose to loop audio to play repeatedly

until it is interrupted. For example, you could choose

to continually play tracks 1 through 4 of a CD until

interrupted during a break. The audio can be interrupted

when you click to advance to the next slide.

When you deliver your presentation, a CD symbol is

inserted into the slide that can be clicked to start

playing the audio again from the beginning.

1 Display the slide into which you

want to insert the CD audio.

2 Insert the audio CD.

Note: If Windows asks what you

want to do with the audio CD,

click Close.

3 Click the Insert tab.

4 Click the bottom half of the

Sound split button.

5 Click Play CD Audio Track.

The Insert CD Audio dialog box

appears.

6 Use the Start at track spin box to

click the track number at which

you want to start.

7 Use the End at track spin box to

click the track number at which

you want to end.

8 Click Loop until stopped

( changes to ).

9 Click OK.

PowerPoint asks you

how you want the

sound to start.

10 Click Automatically.

* If you prefer that the

sound start only when

you click the icon, click

When Clicked, instead.

* PowerPoint inserts the CD audio icon.

11 Click and drag the icon to position it

where you want in your slide.

*You can click Preview to hear the audio

CD tracks you selected.

Caution!

When you deliver your presentation, PowerPoint

plays audio from whatever CD is in your computer’s

CD player. If you design your presentation with

one CD in mind, but the CD player has another CD

in it when you deliver your presentation, you could

get unexpected results.

Caution!

You should make sure that the license agreement

that came with your CD allows you to play the music

in public forums.

Did You Know?

You can play only a selected part of an audio track.

After you have inserted the audio CD icon, click the

Options tab. In the Start Playing box, use the Time

spin box to set the time at which the first track

begins. In the Stop Playing box, use the Time spin

box to set the time at which the last track ends.