Steps to hide the inserted sound icon in PowerPoint

Basically, this speaker icon can be adjusted to a small size to make it compact in the slide interface, but you can also completely hide this icon to increase the aesthetics and professionalism of your PowerPoint presentation. and still click on the slide to play the sound as usual. The following article will guide you to hide the sound icon in PowerPoint.

Instructions to hide the sound icon in PowerPoint

Step 1:

First of all, you insert audio into the presentation slide as usual. To see how to insert audio into PowerPoint, please refer to the article below.

Step 2:

Then click on the audio icon inserted in the slide and then look at the toolbar and click on the Playback item.

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Step 3:

Now show more options below, select Hide During Show in the Audio Options management group to hide this icon when presenting slides.

So when you present the slide will not display the sound icon in the slide as before.

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In case you use the web-based version of Microsoft PowerPoint, also click on the audio icon inserted in the slide then look up at the Audio section, then in the Audio Options section click on the drop-down arrow icon and also tick Hide. During Show is okay.

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Samuel Daniel

Update 31 July 2021