Play music across multiple slides in your slide show

You can add a song to a presentation and play it across slides in the background of your slide show. If you want to use music from the web, you have to download it to your computer before you can use it in a presentation.

Newer versions Office 2010 Online macOS

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To play a song across slides

1. On the Insert tab, select Audio, and then Audio on My PC.

2. In the file explorer, locate the music file you want to use and then select Insert.

3. With the audio icon selected on the slide, on the Playback tab, select Play in Background.

   

   Play in Background makes the audio file start automatically during a slide show and also makes the audio play across multiple slides.

Play multiple songs across multiple slides

If your slide show is longer than one song, you can add more songs. However, if you find that you're having trouble synchronizing the music with the slide show, you can use a third-party audio editing tool, such as Audacity®, to string the songs together into one file so they play continuously throughout the slide show.

Other related Help articles include:

• Video and audio file formats supported in PowerPoint

• Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation

• Record a slide show with narration and slide timings

• Play music and other sounds automatically when a slide appears

To play a song across slides in PowerPoint 2010

1. On the Insert tab, select Audio, and then Audio from File.

2. In the file explorer, locate the music file you want to use and then select Insert.

3. With the audio icon selected on the slide, on the Playback tab, click the list named Start, and select Play across slides.

   

   (Play across slides also makes the audio file start automatically during a slide show.)

Play multiple songs across multiple slides

If your slide show is longer than one song, you can add more songs. However, if you find that you're having trouble synchronizing the music with the slide show, you can use a third-party audio editing tool, such as Audacity®, to string the songs together into one file so they play continuously throughout the slide show.

Other related Help articles include:

• Video and audio file formats supported in PowerPoint

• Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation

• Record a slide show with narration and slide timings

• Play music and other sounds automatically when a slide appears

In PowerPoint Online, you can't add sound to a presentation, but you can play sound that has been added to it.

If you want be able to add sound to slides in PowerPoint Online, please go to our suggestion box and vote for it.

To play a song across slides

See Video: Add audio that plays through your entire presentation.

Play multiple songs across multiple slides

See Video: Add multiple songs to your presentation.

If your slide show is longer than one song, you can add more songs. However, if you find that you're having trouble synchronizing the music with the slide show, you can use a third-party audio editing tool, such as Audacity®, to string the songs together into one file so they play continuously throughout the slide show.