How to Download Music to Put in a PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint allows you to create presentations with text, images videos and sound clips. When you download music for your PowerPoint presentation, you save it to the directory where the presentation is saved on your hard drive. You can save the sound clip anywhere on your hard drive and add it to the file, but saving it to the same location as the presentation file makes it more convenient to add when creating the presentation.

Click the Windows "Start" button. Type "Internet Explorer" into the search text box. Press "Enter" to open your browser. You can also use another browser such as Firefox or Chrome. Any browser can be used to download music to your computer.

Navigate to the website that contains the sound clip you want to download. When the browser window opens and prompts you for an action, click "Save." This opens a dialog box that asks for a location to save the sound file.

Double-click the list of directories until you reach the same directory that contains the PowerPoint presentation file. Click "Save" to download and store the sound file on your hard drive.

Click the Windows "Start" button when the download completes. Click "All Programs," then click "Microsoft Office." Click the "PowerPoint" shortcut to run the program.

Click the "File" menu item, then click "Open." Double-click your PowerPoint presentation to open the file. Click the slide where you want to insert the sound. This makes the slide active.

Click the "Insert" button. From the list of options, click "Movies and Sounds." Click "Sound from File." Double-click the sound file you downloaded earlier. The sound file inserts into your PowerPoint presentation.

Insert Sound From Local Computer

Click the Windows "Start" button and select "All Programs." Click "Microsoft Office," which displays all of the Office Suite programs. Click "Microsoft PowerPoint" to open the software.

Press "Ctrl+O" to open the "Open File" dialog window. Double-click the PowerPoint slideshow file you want to edit. The slideshow opens in your PowerPoint workspace.

Click the slide on which you want to add sound. This activates the slide in the center pane. Click the "Insert" button at the top of the PowerPoint window.

Click "Movies and Sounds" from the list of options. Click "Sound from File," which then opens a dialog window. Double-click the sound file on your hard drive. The sound clip is added to your slide. Press "Ctrl+S" to save the changes.