You may want to introduce a slide or make a point by including a sound effect. This course tells you how to play sounds in a presentation — either by inserting a sound file or by playing music from a CD.

For an inserted sound, choose a way to make it start and specify how long it should play, even over a number of slides. Hide the sound icon if you want, and trigger the sound by clicking something else, such as a shape or picture.

For a CD, find out how to set up the tracks that you want PowerPoint to play.

For more about this course, read this page fully, and when you're ready to start the first lesson, click Next.

Before you begin

To do the practice sessions, you need a computer with a sound card, a CD drive, and speakers.