Can some kind soul please help me with a PowerPoint problem?

I am trying to get a music soundtrack to play for the duration of a PowerPoint slideshow. I want the music to start automatically when the slide show is started and run until the end. All I can manage so far is to put a sound file on a particular slide which will only play when that slide comes up and stops when the next slide starts.

How can I get the music to run for the duration of the slideshow? I don't want to have to run the music separately.

Any help will be gratefully received.

At a rough guess, you will need a bit of VBA code, which runs on first slide. This code should open a music player and run the required file in the background. More VBA code on last slide to switch the player off.

Ensure requiste player is available on target system that you run the PP slideshow on.

Taken from MS Help site :

Add music, songs, or sound effects to a slide show
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You can add music, songs, or sound effects that play:

Automatically when you display a particular slide
When you click the sound icon on a particular slide
Over one or multiple slides.
For more background information before you work with music, songs, or sound, see About music and sounds.


Add, music, songs, or sound effects

Display the slide to which you want to add music or sound effects.
On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then do one of the following:
Insert a sound file

Click Sound from File, locate the folder that contains the file, and then double-click the file you want.
Insert a sound clip from Clip Organizer

Click Sound from Clip Organizer, scroll to find the clip you want, and click it to add it to the slide.
Note To do a search for clips in Clip Organizer, fill in the Search for: box and click Go. To get more information about finding the clip you want, click Tips for finding clips at the bottom of the task pane; it gives details on finding files using wildcards and adding your own clips to the Clip Organizer.

When a message is displayed, do one of the following:
To play the music or sound automatically when you go to the slide, click Automatically.
To play the music or sound only when you click the sound icon , click When Clicked.
To adjust settings for when the sound file stops: click the sound icon , right-click, and on the shortcut menu, click Custom Animation.
In the Custom Animation task pane, click the arrow on the selected item in the Custom Animation list, and then click Effect Options.
On the Effect tab, under Stop playing, do one of the following:
To stop the sound file on mouse-click of the slide, select On click (the default).
To stop the sound file after this slide, click After current slide.
To keep the sound file playing for several slides, click After, and then set the total number of slides the file should play on.

Hope this helps

CK

Thanks for the help.

HM