How to Bring Sound into a ClarisWorks Slide Show

Computers in Communication
Boston University College of Communication
Copyright © 1996 by Professor Jim Lengel

1. Save your sounds onto your disk - and in the same folder as your slide show - as QuickTime movies. (From SoundEdit, use Save as.. to do this; From MoviePlayer, make sure you save your sound as a Self-Contained QuickTime Movie.)

2. Make sure ClarisWorks is working in a memory partition of at least 8 megabytes. Open your slide show.

3. Move to the page you want the sound to play with. Select the arrow tool. Use Insert under the File menu; insert the sound as a QuickTime movie - near the bottom of the Insert dialog box is a pop-up button to select this option.

4. The sound will show up on the page as a little filmstrip icon. Double-click this icon to hear the sound. You can move the icon wherever you want on the page. (The icon will not show in the slide show mode.)

5. A sound can accompany only one slide at a time.

6. When you set up your slide show under the View menu, make sure you select Auto Play under QuickTime options.