Comments on: PowerPoint Pitfalls: Sounds

By: dubstep

dubstep — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:31:51 +0000

Thanks for these tips on using sounds in PP presentations. As you’ve illustrated, there’s plenty of strengths and pitfalls to using sound.

By: Frank Pipolo

Frank Pipolo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:04:20 +0000

Tip I use:

I ALWAYS place all media files in the same folder as the slide show BEFORE I include them in a slide. When I need to copy the slideshow, I copy the complete folder. It can be a little wasteful of space, but it can save a lot of embarrassment when you find the media doesn’t play.

By: SoundBible

SoundBible — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:03:22 +0000

There is a great tutorial and thousands of sounds for your powerpoint presentation. Yeah you have to have sounds or the presentation is lame to say the least. http://soundbible.com/powerpoint-sounds.php

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:24:07 +0000

Thanks for these tips on using sounds in PP presentations. As you’ve illustrated, there’s plenty of strengths and pitfalls to using sound. We’d love to hear more tips at http://www.facebook.com/office

Cheers,
Andy
MSFT Office Outreach

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:37:50 +0000

The problems with using sound in a PowerPoint show are the same problems with using PowerPoint at all: the technology makes it way to easy to put stuff together without foresight. I’ve heard too many presentations with “sound effects” of the same caliber as those awful spinning transitions between every slide. Whether it’s an imprecisely selected audio track, page full of whooshes, or a canned canned waterfall to “enhance” an otherwise stunning photo, I have to recommend to people to leave out the sounds unless the rest of the piece is well polished, the sound quality is good, and the message is truly enhanced. I think the advice “Don’t speak unless you can improve upon the silence” applies to presentation sounds, as well.