Notes for Creating a Synchronized
Listening Guide with PowerPoint
Kimberly C. Walls
October 16, 2000
Last revised January 23, 2002
Start PowerPoint
Blank Presentation, OK
Blank Slide, OK
Format -> Slide Color Scheme -> Custom
(choose your background color), Apply to All (note: you may apply to
"this slide only" if you want different background colors)
Insert -> either Picture or Text box
to "decorate"
Insert -> New Slide (blank slide)
or Insert ->Duplicate Slide if you want the same layout.
Continue Steps 5-7 until all slides
are done. Make sure that you have one slide before the listening selection
starts that says, "Click the mouse as soon as you hear the music start."
Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Play
CD Audio Track (set the start and end times) (NOTE: MAKE SURE THERE
IS ONLY ONE PLAY CD BUTTON IN THE SLIDE SHOW OR THINGS WILL NOT WORK...IF
YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM, GO BACK AND ERASE ALL PLAY CD BUTTONS AND START
HERE AGAIN)
Slide Show -> Custom Animation ->
Timing -> highlight the Play CD object in the list ->Start Animation, Automatically,
0 seconds.
Slide Show -> Custom Animation (highlight
the object in the list) -> Play Settings (or Multimedia Settings), While
playing,Continue slide show; Stop Playing, After x slides -> OK (Use the
total number of slides for x)
Slide Show -> Set up Show -> Presented
by a speaker, Advance slides using timings, if present
Slide Show -> Slide Transition ->
on mouse click
Slide Show -> Rehearse Timings (click
to advance at proper times--remember to click on the NEXT button you created
when the music starts) -> Yes -> Yes
Now in the slide sorter view, click
on any slide that you don't want auto timings, such as the one with the
Play CD object and go to Slide Show -> Slide Transition -> on mouse click,
Apply to this slide only