Setting picture to play sound

[Tim Zahara]

Hi,
I am doing a favor for a friend, and am unsure which version of PowerPoint
she has, but I don't think it matters. Her problem is that she wants to have
a picture in her slide that when she clicks on it, it will play a sound. I
have no idea how to do this and have tried everything I can think of. I can
not test one theory that I have since I use a mac, and it probably works
different, but if I hyperlinked the picture to the sound clip, would that
work? Is there any other way that I'm missing? I know that it would be
easier to have the entire thing timed but for some reason she doesn't want
that.

Thanks for all your help,
Tim Zahara

 

[Echo S]

This would be easiest to do with a trigger, so yes, it does matter which
version of PPT she's using.

Then again, she may be able to do what she needs using an action setting.
Have her right-click the picture, choose Action Setting, and then opt to
"play sound" on the "on mouse click" tab.

 

[Sonia]

This only works for WAV files, but you can select the picture and then go to
Slide Show > Action Settings and check on None, but check Play sound and locate
and select the WAV file.