Play music across multiple slides in your slide show
Play music across multiple slides in your slide show
You can add a song to a presentation and play it across slides in the background of your slide show. If you want to use music from the web, you have to download it to your computer before you can use it in a presentation.
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To play a song across slides
On the Insert tab, select Audio, and Audio on My PC.
In the file explorer, locate the music file you want to use and then select Insert.
With the audio icon selected on the slide, on the Playback tab, select Play in Background.
Play in Background makes the audio file start automatically during a slide show and also makes the audio play across multiple slides.
Play multiple songs across multiple slides
If your slideshow is longer than one song, you can add more songs. However, if you find that you're having trouble synchronizing the music with the slide show, you can use a third-party audio editing tool, such as Audacity®, to string the songs together into one file so they play continuously throughout the slide show.
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**In PowerPoint for the web, you can't add sound to a presentation, but you can play sound that has been added to it.
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