One may insert a sound by attaching it to a slide transition, in which case you open the drop down menu in the Transitions ribbon in the timing section, or you can insert a sound from file by going to the insert ribbon and clicking on the audio drop down menu under the media section. From there it will give you the option of recording audio there, if you want, using some standard sounds built in to PowerPoint, and using one from file, if using one from file, click on that option, and browse for the audio file you want to use. However use caution if you are putting the PowerPoint on a flash drive or other mobile saving card, because if you don't have a copy of the sound on your mobile data storage unit then the PowerPoint will look for the sound on your computer, and not find it. It will therefore error and not play the sound. If you want the sound to play you should copy it to the mobile drive and attach the audio file to the PowerPoint from the drive copy, not the computer original, because if you link the computer copy, then PowerPoint will still look for it on your computer, but if you link the mobile copy, it will look on the mobile drive, and of course, if done right, play the sound.
Animation.
I think about 500,000,000 people usePowerPoint
Automatic slide show presentations with transition effects between slides sets PowerPoint above Excel.
Powerpoint creates presentations by using slides. Onto those slides you can add all sorts of things like text, images, video, sound and other things. You can create many effects, like animations and transitions. You can then connect up to a projector to show your presentation.
There is an option of Animations in Power Point 2010. It can be used to add various effects.
PowerPoint is a great presentation tool that allows you to communicate important information in a dynamic way to keep your audience captive. People learn in many different ways and the visual aspect of PowerPoint is priceless. Use it to display growth charts, risk factors, company goals you'd like to achieve or even goals your company has already met. You can add diagrams and models to illustrate future movement. You can even add videos for inspiration or background music and sound effects as you simply read through bullet points. The possibilities are endless.
If you are referring to "Sound Effects" then the answer is yes, you can buy sound effects online. There are also sites that offer free sound effects packages that you can use without a licence.
They would have much more use for Word than they would for Powerpoint, but they could use Powerpoint for some things.
Only if you do not use anything that is not on the old powerpoint.
why isn't PowerPoint helpful..........
Maybe you just didn't package the inserted sound file with your presentation. Not all inserted sound files in PowerPoint is embedded, sound files in wav format larger than 100 KB (i.e. anything but a short sound effect) and other sound file formats are linked to PowerPoint presentation, they are saved on your local disk. The difference between linked and embedded, please view the related link bellow. Solution 1 - embed the music in your presentation: To wav sound larger than 100KB: PowerPoint-> Tools->Options-> Advanced -> link sounds with file size greater than ...KB. Please input 50000. To music in all formats: Convert your PowerPoint presentation to Flash use some third party presentation tools, Wondershare PPT2Flash, for instance. It can help you create Flash-based presentation with all the original effects retained. Of course, all the sound files will be embedded in the presentation. You can send the Flash-based presentation to your friends and different computers. Solution 2 -- package: 1. Put the sound files and the PowerPoint presentation in a same folder. 2. Reinsert the sound file to the PowerPoint presentation. 3. Package the entire folder into one archive file and send it to others. Do not create self-extracting (SFX) archive since most email block EXE files by default. WinZip and WinRAR are both recommended to archive your presentation files for emailing perfectly.
Well, I would recommend getting sound effects for videos from FreeSound because they offer a variety of sound effects. They also offer their sound effects for a fee of no charge.