Recording Sound Files

You can record your own sound clips to insert in your PowerPoint presentation. You need to have a microphone and sound card to do this.

Tip

In addition to adding a sound clip to a single slide, you can record a narration for your entire presentation by choosing Slide Show, Record Narration.

→ To learn how to narrate your presentations, see "Recording a Voice Narration."

To record a sound, follow these steps:

  1. Choose Insert, Movies and Sound, Record Sound to open the Record Sound dialog box, which appears in Figure 13.20.

    Figure 13.20. Record a sound to play with a particular slide.

  2. Enter a description for this sound in the

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