add background music to a PowerPoint presentation

About the playing In order to make the music play run through the slides, you should follow the hereinafter steps: 1. Click insert -> sound -> sound from file. Select the music you want to insert;
2. In the succeeding dialog box which say "How do you want the sound to start in the slide show? ", please select " Automatically"

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