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Chantal Bossé
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Chantal Bossé has worked in instructional design and training for over 25 years and is the founder of CHABOS Inc., specializing in M365 training and high-stakes presentation design and coaching. She has been a Microsoft PowerPoint, M365 Apps & Services Most Valued Professional (MVP) since 2013 and has helped over 250,000 international French-speaking learners on LinkedIn Learning with her courses on PowerPoint, Teams, and communication. She thrives on helping people understand and leverage technology to help them work efficiently and deliver engaging and impactful presentations.
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Inserting and formatting audio

Using audio in your presentation can be very useful in some circumstances, but I often hear users feel lost with all the formats and compatibility issues, as we discussed for videos previously. Again, let’s start by defining the supported file formats.

Supported audio file formats

Since versions and compatibility issues are very similar between audio and video, I won’t repeat the introduction I did in the video section. I will again refer you to the Microsoft article discussing video and audio formats in the Further reading section. If you want to make sure audio files included in your presentation will play on most devices and are supported by most operating systems, here are three formats you can look for:

  • The .mp3 format is supported on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android
  • The .mp4 format is supported on Windows, macOS, and iOS
  • The .wav format is supported on Windows, macOS, and Android

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Chantal Bossé

Chantal Bossé has worked in instructional design and training for over 25 years and is the founder of CHABOS Inc., specializing in M365 training and high-stakes presentation design and coaching. She has been a Microsoft PowerPoint, M365 Apps & Services Most Valued Professional (MVP) since 2013 and has helped over 250,000 international French-speaking learners on LinkedIn Learning with her courses on PowerPoint, Teams, and communication. She thrives on helping people understand and leverage technology to help them work efficiently and deliver engaging and impactful presentations.
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