Inserting Music and Charts on a Slide

Inserting Music and Charts on a Slide

You can also insert sound or music on a slide. It may be a sound or movie. When a slide run, movie or sound also plays. To insert music or sound on a slide, follow these steps.

• Display the slide you want to add music or sound to.
  
• On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, submenu will appear. Do one of the following:
  
• To insert a sound from the Clip Gallery, click Sound from Gallery, and then locate and insert the sound you want.
  
• To insert a sound from another location, click Sound from File, locate the folder that contains the sound, and then double-click the sound you want.
  
• A sound icon appears on the slide.
  
• A message is displayed. If you want the sound to play automatically when you go to the slide, clickYes if you want the sound to play only when you click the sound icon during a slide show, click No.
  
• To preview the sound in normal view, double-click the sound icon.
  

Inserting Charts on Slide

In Microsoft PowerPoint, you can create a chart on a slide. Usually charts or graphs are created for numerical data. The Microsoft Excel is a best program for creating charts. In PowerPoint, the default chart is the standard 3D column chart.

To insert a chart on the slide, follow these steps. 

• Select the slide into which you want to insert chart.
  
• Select "Chart" from the Insert menu, a graph of sample data is automatically created on the slide and datasheet including sample data is also opened.
  
• Replace the labels in the first row and first column with the labels of your choice. For example to create chart of maximum and minimum temperature of different cities, follow these steps.
  
• Starting from second cell of first row enter names of cities.
  
• Type "Maximum" & "Minimum" into first cells of second and third rows respectively and also type data of temperature under the headings.
  
• Delete other data by selecting it.
  

1. The graph is automatically created (or modified) according to the data. Click anywhere on the empty space of slide, the chart is inserted and datasheet is disappeared.