Part 5: Create and animate objects on a slide — Patriotic Theme — Add Audio (music)

Part 5: Create and animate objects on a slide — Patriotic Theme — Add Audio (music)

This step-by-step series of tutorials will show you how to animate shapes and text to create a customizable patriotic slide with background music. This fifth tutorial focuses on inserting audio (music) into the slide.

Patriotic Theme Slide – Add Sound Effects (audio)

Insert Audio In this slide we’ve added patriotic music to play as background music. Here’s how to insert audio files using PowerPoint 2013.

1. On the Insert tab,go to the Media Group and click on the More Arrow under the Audio Button. Choose Audio Online.
   

   Insert Audio

2. When the Insert Audio Search Pane appears, type in Patriotic, and click the Search icon
   

   Audio Search Pane

3. Choose Military Open > Insert
   

   Military

4. The audio file will appear on your slide like this:
   

   Audio File Icon

5. Click and Drag the Speaker icon to move the file off of the slide like this:
   

   Move audio file icon

6. With the Audio File selected, Set it to Play in Background by going to Audio Tools in the Ribbon > Playback > Play in Background (this will change Start to Automatically)
   

   Audio File Playback

7. With the Audio file selected, go to the Animations tab in the Ribbon > Advanced Animation > Animation Pane to open the Animation Pane. You’ll find the Audio file animation at the bottom of the other Animation Effects.
   

   Animation Pane

8. Select the file and drag it to the top of all the other Effects. Set it to Start with Previous.
   

   Insert Audio Results

    

This tutorial is part of a 5 part series. To learn other drawing and animation techniques to create a slide like this, click any of the following links:

Draw and Animate the red bars

Draw and Animate the red stars

Create and Animate custom text (with Fragment Shapes Tool)

Draw and Animate the shooting stars

Insert Audio (music)

Download the PowerPoint file from here