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Homepub 2K: How to Configure a Background Sound in a Project

Article ID: 236441

Article Last Modified on 8/6/2002

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Home Publishing 2000 Express Edition
• Microsoft Greetings 2000 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Home Publishing 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q236441

SUMMARY

This article describes how to set the duration for background sounds in an E-mail or Web project.

MORE INFORMATION

Overview

To adjust the timing settings for a background sound in an E-mail or Web project:

1. Create a new E-mail or Web project, or open an existing one.
2. Under Main Options, click Change page or background, and then click Background effects or sounds.
3. In the Background Effects and Sounds dialog box, click Sound Effects.

4. To add a background sound to the project, use one of the following methods.
   
   NOTE: You can attach a Wave sound or a MIDI sound to the background of a project. However, you can only attach a Wave sound to an object in a project. You cannot attach a MIDI sound to an object.

   From Clip Gallery

   1. Click From Clip Gallery.
   2. Click a sound clip category, or type a keyword in the Search for clips box, and then press ENTER.
   3. Double-click the sound file you want to use.

   From My Computer

   1. Click From My Computer.
   2. Browse to the location of the sound file you want to use, or type the path and file name of the sound file in the File name box, and then click Open.
   3. Double-click the sound file you want to use.

   Record

   1. Click Record.
   2. In the Sound Recorder tool, click the Record (O) button to record a new sound file.
   3. When you finish recording the new sound file, click the Stop ([]) button. To listen to the new sound file, click the Play (>) button.
   4. On the File menu, click Exit & Return to E-mail or Web Project.
5. Adjust the start, stop, and repeat settings for the background sound. To do this:
   1. In the Sounds box, click the sound you want to configure.
   2. In the Start sound box, click one of the following settings:
      
      
      • While page appears: Sound playback starts while the page appears.
        
        
      • After page appears: Sound playback starts after the page appears.
        
        
      • To begin after: Sets a delay before sound playback starts.
        
        To do this, type the number of seconds you want to wait before sound playback starts in the After object entrance, delay start of sound for number seconds box, and then click OK.
   3. In the Stop sound box, click one of the following settings:
      
      
      • When this page disappears: The background sound stops when the page changes.
        
        NOTE: If the sound file is longer than the page duration setting, you are prompted to correct the difference automatically. Click Yes to change the page duration to match the sound duration. Click No to stop the background sound when the page disappears.
        
        
      • When entire project ends: The background sound continues until the end of the project.
        
        
      • To end after: Sets the length of time for which you want to play the sound.
        
        To do this, type the number of seconds you want to play the sound in the Stop sound after number seconds box, and then click OK.
   4. In the Repeat sound box, click one of the following settings:
      
      
      • No: Plays the background sound only once.
        
        
      • Repeat continuously: The background sound repeats until the end of the project or until the page disappears.
        
        
      • Repeat: Sets the number of times you want the sound to repeat.
        
        To do this, type the number of times you want the sound to repeat in the Times to repeat box, and then click OK.
6. To preview the sound, click Preview This Page.
7. When you finish configuring sounds, click OK.

Troubleshooting

If the background sound is longer than the entire project, the background sound stops before the entire sound is played. To change this behavior, increase the duration of the project to match the length of the background sound by increasing the duration setting for each page in the project.

If you insert a background sound that is longer than the duration of the page, the page may not change until sound playback is finished. To change this behavior, manually change the duration setting for the page, or change the Stop sound setting for the background sound to either the When entire project ends or the To end after setting.

To change the duration setting for a page:

1. Under Main Options, click Change page or background, and then click Background effects or sounds.
2. Click Motion Effects.
3. Under Set the page duration to, click Set to this number of seconds, and then type the number of seconds you want to wait before the page is changed.
4. Click OK.

To change the "Stop sound" setting for the background sound:

1. Under Main Options, click Change page or background, and then click Background effects or sounds.
2. Click Sound Effects.
3. In the Stop sound box, click When entire project ends or To end after.
4. Click OK.

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