You can add audio, such as music, narration, or sound bites, to your PowerPoint presentation. When adding audio, you can also specify when the audio should start and how long it should run.

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 …

Open the slide where you want to add the audio file. Click Recording tab > Audio > Audio on My PC > and then browse to the location on your computer or network where the audio file is stored.

In PowerPoint, you can add sounds to animations or hyperlinks, described here. You can also play sounds automatically when a slide appears. Add a sound to an animation You must have …

With a microphone, speakers, and a sound card, you can record your presentation and capture your voice narration, slide timings, and laser pointer gestures.

To start the audio immediately when the slide appears during the presentation, use the options on the Playback tab. To start the audio after a delayed interval of time that you set, use Animation …

You can add captions to presentations that you've recorded with video narration, screen recordings, and any other video (except online videos) that you insert into PowerPoint.

In PowerPoint for Windows, you can add closed captions to audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including …

PowerPoint for the web can't trim videos, and online videos can't be trimmed. If you have a video that you want to trim, you must save it to your computer, then insert it on your slide in a …

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 …