Note: Your device must have a microphone enabled in order to record audio. • To review your recording, select Stop and then select Play. • Select Record to re-record your clip, or select OK if you're satisfied. • To move your clip, select and drag the audio icon to where you want it on the slide. If you’re using more than one audio file per slide, we recommend putting the audio icon in the same spot on a slide to find it easily. • Select Play. Change playback options Select the audio icon and then select the Audio Tools Playback tab.
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Then select which options you'd like to use: • To trim the audio, select Trim and then use the red and green sliders to trim the audio file accordingly. • To fade in or fade out audio, change the number in the Fade Duration boxes. • To adjust volume, select Volume and select the setting you prefer.
• To choose how the audio file starts, select the dropdown arrow and select an option: • In Click Sequence: Plays the audio file automatically with a click. • Automatically: Plays automatically once you advance to the slide that the audio file is on. • When Clicked On: Plays audio only when the icon is clicked on. • To choose how the audio plays in your presentation, select an option: • Play Across Slides: Plays one audio file across all slides. • Loop until Stopped: Plays an audio file on loop until it’s stopped manually by clicking the Play/Pause button.
• To have the audio play continuously across all slides in the background, select Play in Background. Delete audio To delete an audio clip, select the audio icon on the slide and press Delete. • In Normal view, click the slide that you want to add a sound to. • On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Audio. • In the list, click Record Sound. The Record Sound dialog box opens.
• In the Record Sound dialog box, click Record, and begin speaking or playing your own audio. • Click Stop when you're done recording. Assign a name to the recording. Click Play to listen to the recording.
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If you're satisfied, click OK to save the recording and insert it on the slide. If you're not yet satisfied, repeat steps 4 and 5. The audio icon and controls appear on the slide: • In Normal view or Slide Show view, click the icon and click Play to play the music or other sound. • On the slide, select the audio clip icon. • Under Audio Tools, on the Playback tab, in the Audio Options group, do one of the following: • To start the audio clip automatically when you show the slide, in the Start list, click Automatically. • To manually start the audio clip when you click it on the slide, in the Start list, click On Click.
• To play an audio clip as you click through the slides in your presentation, in the Start list, click Play across slides. • To play an audio clip continuously until you stop it, select the Loop until Stopped check box. Important: Use this option only if you set the audio clip to play automatically, or if you created some other kind of control, such as a trigger, to click to play the clip. (A trigger is something on your slide, such as a picture, shape, button, paragraph of text, or text box, that can set off an action when you click it.) Note that the audio icon is always visible unless you drag it off the slide. • Click the audio clip icon.