How to Set Music Play Across Entire Slides in PowerPoint 2010

Adding background music for your PowerPoint will certainly help you a lot by take all your audiences into that mood you created. When you directly Insert a song in PowerPoint, it will paly once to its original length, like 3 to 5 minutes. But your PowerPoint presentation would last much longer. So how to set the song as background music to play across entire slides?

If you are using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, please click here to learn the corresponding tutorial.

Since the latest version for Windows is Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, and few tuturials are related to PowerPoint 2010. So here we would like to show how to set music play across entire slides in PowerPoint 2010.

First, open your PowerPoint file and insert the music into PowerPoint 2010 as usual.



Click the Insert tab located along the top PowerPoint toolbar. Then, locate the Audio icon, located on the far right of the lower toolbar, and click the arrow below it to bring down the sub menu.

From here, you will notice the options: Audio from File, Clip Art Audio, and Record Audio. You can choose whichever option you prefer. For this presentation, we will be using the Audio from File option. Therefore, we will need to navigate to our audio file and click the OK button.

Click the small speaker representing the audio file you have inserted, and the Audio Tools interface displays. Click the Playback icon.



Select the Play across slides option from the submenu of Start on the right side of Volume.



Select the Animation Pane option under the Animations tab. Right-click the audio file in the emerging Animation Pane window on the left, and select Effect Options from the drop-down list.

Then the Play Audio interface appears. In the Effect tab, make your choice at Stop Playing-After XXX slides.

After you have done testing your music, you can hit the esc key to exit the slide show.

That’s all you need to do! Isn't it easy? To sum up, you need to set the start and end slide for the insert music so that it could play repeatedly across slides. Now you should be able to set inserte music as PowerPoint background music easily!

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