How to question with PowerPoint

Factual Questions
1

I need to teach some teachers how to create an escape room for our students. I have everything ready for that, including a fun PowerPoint presentation. The one thing that would make it more fun is if I can add a sound–specifially a scream–to the animated picture at the beginning of the presentation. How do I have the scream play at the same time as the picture appears?

As always, thanks in advance!

2

Aha! Another teacher just came into the room and showed me how.

  • Click on the animated item
  • Click on custom animation
  • In the animation pane, click on the downward facing triangle on the right for your animated item
  • Click on Effect Options
  • Click on Sound
  • Scroll down to click on other
  • Navigate to the folder on your computer where you have the file and click on the file (it must be a wav file)

Now that’s out of the way, the next question is: How to have two items come in at the exact same time but from different directions?

3

When you have the animation ribbon active, across at the right hand side, there is a section labelled ‘timing’ - select an item on the page and you can define when the animation for it should start (options are ‘on click’, ‘with previous’ and ‘after previous’) - if you want the two things to happen at the same time, it’s ‘with previous’ - if you want them to happen one after the other, but without any interaction, it’s ‘after previous’.

Edit: These choices can also be made in the animation pane (and it’s easier to see what’s happening in what order there)

4

Forgot to come back and thank you.

Thanks!