# How to question with PowerPoint

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-question-with-powerpoint/983192 "2023-04-26T06:35:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-question-with-powerpoint/983192/1 "2023-04-26T06:35:05Z")

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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!

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-question-with-powerpoint/983192/2 "2023-04-26T06:53:27Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-question-with-powerpoint/983192/3 "2023-04-26T08:28:20Z")

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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)

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-question-with-powerpoint/983192/4 "2023-05-18T01:12:45Z")

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Forgot to come back and thank you.

Thanks!