Sprinkling sounds and animations in your presentations can add some sparkle or even help you bring a point home with flair. When you insert multimedia objects into slides, a movie object is indicated with an illustration icon, and a sound object is indicated with a small speaker icon. You can choose to have the animation or sound play as soon as the slide it is placed on appears, or when you click on the object while running in Slide Show view.

Insert a Movie or Sound

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click the Movie or Sound button.

   

   Tip

   

   You can also choose to insert a media clip from the Clip Art task pane. When searching for clip art just select Movies or Sounds in the Results Should Be list. By inserting a media clip in this way, you can use a preview feature to see or hear it before inserting the object. See "Adding Clip Art" for more about how to do this.

3. Locate the file you want to insert and click OK.

   

4. Click either Automatically or When Clicked to select how you want the object to run.

   

Tip

If you set up a media clip to play automatically when a slide appears during a slide show, it will play once. If you want to play it again, you can click the object to start it over.