How to Set Background Music for PowerPoint?

[emilyjery]

Nowadays, PowerPoint is arousing more and more people's interest in making a nice presentation. Sometimes, though, those presentations can be a little dull or lack something to really set the mood. This may be easily fixed by adding background music to PowerPoint.



If you want to design a nice PowerPoint presentations, you must know how to set background music for a PowerPoint file. Here is the right article for you. Just follow the guide below to add background music to PowerPoint step by step.

Steps: Set Background Music for PowerPoint

Step 1: Open a PowerPoint file and point to Movies and Sounds on the Insert menu, then click Sound from File.

Step 2: Click the music or sound file you want to insert and click OK, then choose Automatically.

Step 3: Right-click to the loud-speaker icon on the slide, find Custom Animation and click it.

Tips: Make sure that this added music file is placed in the primary of all the animations sequences. If not, drag it to the primary.

Step 4: Right-click the added music animations sequences and find Effect Options and click it.

Step 5: Find Stop playing and check After, and then specify a value bigger than the quantity of the slide quantity of the current PowerPoint file.



Step 5: Click Timing tab and find Repeat, choose the option of Until End of Slide, then click OK.



Tips: Always put the music/audio file in the same folder as your PowerPoint presentation. Keeping your music/sound file in the same folder as your presentation ensures the link will still work.

That's the process of how to set background music for PowerPoint. Now your PowerPoint file would be more amusing and thrilling. Sounds great?

[Snybert]

wow, thanks! I thought this wasn't possible...TBH they didn't make it easy for us, I will need to practice this before it becomes logical and automatic, but I'm happy I find an answer for this long-time question. Can the sound be an mp3?

[JohnWilson]

Actually "they" DID make it easy for you and those instructions are really not necessary.

Insert the sound
Choose Play Automatically
Leave selected and in the ribbon choose Audio tools > Playback
Where it say Play : Automatically use the menu to choose "Play Across slides" instead

[Donald12]

Hi,

I am a newbie to everything. I have PowerPoint 2013. Some of the suggestions were greyed out and I couldn't do them. I have made 17 slides with text and images. Everything was going OK as I followed tutorials. When I tried to add music and narration, the narration was too low and the music was to high. I fooled around with the sliders in the icons, but no matter what I did, the music remains too loud and drowns out the narration.

Any help will be appreciated.

Donald