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PowerPoint industry has flourished like anything in last few years. More and more people have started using PowerPoint presentations for business, education and marketing activities. The success of  new product ideas and use cases like online PowerPoint sharing, converting PowerPoint presentations to videos, creating synchronized PowerPoint presentations validates the rapid growth of PowerPoint industry.

This growth is the reason that lot many people [Entrepreneurs, Product Managers, Analysts]  look for stats related to usage of PowerPoint presentations and try to estimate the size of PowerPoint market. No doubt that such stats [even estimates] are of much  importance to any business or product idea related to PowerPoint and PowerPoint users.


Here are few important estimated stats about PowerPoint that might help those looking for such stats. We would keep on updating these stats with links to resources from where they come from:

• How many PowerPoint users are there?: There are more than 500 million users of  PowerPoint   worldwide. [Source of information]
• How many presentations are created daily?: More than 30 million presentations  are created everyday  [Source of information]    
• Use of PowerPoint in teaching: Over 6 Million Teachers around the world use PowerPoint for classroom lectures [Source of information]
• Use of PowerPoint in Business and Education: More than 120 million people are using PowerPoint to create business and educational presentations worldwide.  [Source of information] 
• Estimated sale of PowerPoint software $100m     [Source of information]
• Average PowerPoint runs for 250 minutes start up to shutdown   [Source of information]
• The average PowerPoint slide shows has 40 words   [Source of information]
• Microsoft PowerPoint has estimated 95% share of presentation software market  [Source of information]

       

         

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Tweet How to embed, record, insert, edit audio in PowerPoint?

We all love and admire presentations jazzed up  with multimedia elements. Who would not love a custom PowerPoint greeting having audio message from someone you love or a PowerPoint photo album with right blend of sound and music?

Even a business presentation can have long lasting effect with right kind of music or sound appearing at right point.  However, many of us find it difficult when it comes to adding music, sound or record our own voice. PowerPoint has different ways and properties to handle audio files. Let us discuss them one by one. 

Recording your own voice in a PowerPoint slideshow (Narrations)
If you just want to record audio on one slide or when audio sync is not that important with animations or slides  this can be a good option:

• Click on insert tab on PowerPoint 2010 ribbon and then click on audio drop down.
•  Select "Record Audio" option. A dialog box with option to record will appear
• Click record button to record audio. Recored audio will get embedded on current active slide

If you want to record narrations in 2010 synced with animations and slides (in slideshow mode): This video tutorial will help you understand the steps involved in recording narration:



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Insert music

Inserting music or audio file in PowerPoint is quite easy.

• Click on insert tab on PowerPoint 2010 ribbon and then click on audio drop down
• Select "Insert from file"
• Select the audio file from you system and click insert to add it to slide
• You can set different properties for this audio file by double clicking the sound icon 
• Click on playback tab and set the options as desired

Play across slides and loop small audio until last slide

If you want to play some music or sound continuously when slideshow is in progress, you can set the audio property to loop until last to play it across slides.

Edit audio inserted in slide
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 lets you trim the audio files inserted so that you can set the start and end time for a audio file which is quite long and just a smart portion of it make sense for your audience: