Assigning a Sound to an Object


Many presenters believe that sound icons are distracting and unprofessional, and so they prefer to assign sound files to clip art or to other objects that they place in the presentation. This way, they still have precise control over when a sound plays (for example, when they click the clip art), but the control mechanism is hidden.

Although you can assign a sound to any object, many people assign their sounds to graphics. For example, you might attach a sound file of a greeting from your CEO to the CEO's picture.

Follow these steps to assign a sound to an object:

  1. Insert the object that you want to associate with the sound. For example, the object can be a graphic, chart, or text box.

  2. Select the object, and on the Insert tab, click Action. The Action Settings dialog box appears.

  3. Click either the Mouse Click tab or the Mouse Over tab, depending on which action you want. For example, mouse-click plays the sound when you click the object, while mouse over plays the sound when you move your mouse pointer over the object.

  4. Select the Play Sound check box. Then open the drop-down list and choose a sound, as shown in Figure 16.11. You can choose from a variety of sounds that are stored in C:\Windows\Media, or you can choose Other Sound to open the Add Sound dialog box and pick a sound from any location. You can only use WAV sounds for this, though.

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    Figure 16.11: You can choose the sound that you want to assign to the object.

  5. Click OK. The object now has the sound associated with it so that when you click it or move the mouse over it during the presentation, the sound plays.

Note 

Chapter 18 is devoted entirely to transitions and animation effects, and so this chapter does not describe them in detail. In Chapter 18, you can learn how to assign sounds to the transition between slides, or to the movement (animation) of any object on any slide.




Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Bible
Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Bible
ISBN: 0470144939
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 268
Authors: Faithe Wempen

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