How to Add Music and Audio to PowerPoint

You can add something special to your PowerPoint presentation with music or audio. While this can be a bit tricky – and requires you to know the environment where your presentation will be presented – it can add a special element to the information displayed.

Whether you want to add background music, sound effects, narration or something else, it doesn’t have to be difficult at all.

Here’s how you add music/sound to PowerPoint in a few simple steps!

Note on audio presentations

Before adding music or audio to a PowerPoint presentation, it’s important to consider two things:

Where are you giving the presentation?

Does the presentation environment or space have audio equipment and speakers that will deliver the music or other sound clearly to everyone in the audience? It’s also a good idea to do a little presentation scouting and try running the presentation and sound in the space before the audience arrives.

Do you have permission to play the music or audio embedded in your presentation?

Depending on your location, content and duration of the audio may require special permission from the copyright holder of the audio.

Design the slide

Although you can add music or audio files to a slide in PowerPoint at any time, it is recommended that you design the slide first and then add audio content. (This way, you don’t run the risk of deleting or losing your audio file after it’s inserted.)

Once you have the design ready, you can insert the audio clip from your computer.

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