You can make your own .wav files or find existing .wav files, .midi files, and .avi files, and use them in your Power Point presentations. 

When you are in the Power Point at the slide where you wish to insert the movies or sound, select INSERT as shown below. You will pull down the menu to Movies and Sounds, just as you see in the example below. Typically your movie or sound will be in a file, so you will select Movie from FILE or Sound from FILE. 

In this example, we are adding a sound from a file to a POWER POINT. You will see a screen like the one below. You select the folder in which your sound (or movie) file is located. In the below example, it is in a file call 4001999-00. from there you select the file you wish to insert. In this example, it is called soundclip1. You can see what the icon looks like beside the file name. This particular soundclip is a .wav file containing original sounds I created for this lesson. I am inserting them into my Power Point from that particular file in that directory. 

Below is an example of how the actual Power Point slide will look with the icon for the sound file. 

Notice the icon indicating sound . In the actual Power Point shown below, if you clicked on the icon you would hear sound. You can click on the icon above to hear what you would hear if you were running the Power Point file. 

You would insert an original or copied .wav file or .midi file into your Power Point in this way.

Inserting a Movie Clip into Your Power Point

You would proceed just as we did above, going to INSERT and, using the pulldown menu, select MOVIES AND SOUND just like you did above. This time select MOVIE from file. 

Next you will have to identify the file you want to open as a movie file. In the example below, I have selected, intown.avi, for the movie file. 

Click here to go to the .avi file; then... on the next page, double click on the image to make it run. This is the intown.avi I selected from the files above.

When you use INSERT Movie and Sound files to insert your movie, then it puts it directly into the Power Point. It does not use an icon. It inserts the movie directly; you will see examples of this type of insertion in the Miss America Power Point.

If you want to insert the movie, using an icon, then you do the following. Go to INSERT and use the pull down menu, but this time select OBJECT, as shown below.

When you insert using OBJECT, you get an icon that is the link to the .avi file. You click on the icon to get the .avi file. For .avi files, select MEDIA CLIP as shown below. 

Then be sure to check Display as icon. For MEDIA CLIP your icon will probably be 

Sometimes you may used VIDEO CLIP as shown below. 

Then you icon will probably be 

Which ever you select, Media Clip or Video Clip, (and for our purposes, it will probably be Media Clip), here's the next step. You indicate that you will "CREATE FROM FILE", then you "BROWSE" to find the file you want to use, just like when you are doing any other insertion. 

I wanted to use babycha1.avi for my file, so I selected it, as shown below, and clicked OK. 

So now the MEDIA CLIP icon shows up in my Power Point. When the user is ready, a simple click and the .avi file runs within the POWER POINT. 

To be sure you understand what happens when you INSERT as a "movie and sound file" versus when you INSERT as an object, check out this PowerPoint about the Dancing Babies.

Go to the Power Point Examples and look at the Miss America Power Point. That Power Point has movies (.avi files) inserted as icons. Different versions of Power Point have different icons. There are icons for video clips, media clips, quick time movies, etc. In this example, you will see the following icons:  You will also see in this example, movie files embedded without an icon; you simply click on the picture and the movie runs. Notice that there are two such examples in the Miss America Power Point.  In this Power Point about my first grade teacher, Mrs. America Plunkett (we called her Miss America!), you will see the use of .wav files and movie or AVI clips. Check it out.  Want to find some .avi files? Click here