Sound effects can enhance your productivity in Microsoft Office by providing audio cues. For example, a sound cue might notify you when options on the screen change. Or, a sound can confirm that an action (such as send a mail, delete something, or paste content) actually completed.

1. Check your speaker output. 2. Run the audio troubleshooter. 3. Verify that all Windows Updates are installed. 4. Check your cables, plugs, jacks, volume, speaker, and headphone connections. 5. Check sound settings. 6. Fix your audio drivers. 7. Set your audio device as the default device. 8. Turn off audio enhancements. 9. Restart Audio Services

If you want to separately use files or objects from a PowerPoint presentation, such as videos, photos, or sounds, you can extract them by converting the presentation to a “zipped” file folder. Note, however, that you can't extract PDFs or .dotx files.

Windows uses the Wave Form Audio (WAV) file format to store sounds as waveforms. One minute of Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)-encoded sound can occupy as little as 644 kilobytes (KB) or as much as 27 megabytes (MB) of storage.

Learn how to control your PC by voice using Windows Speech Recognition commands for dictation, keyboard shortcuts, punctuation, apps, and more.

To disable audio enhancements: Select Additional device properties from the Device Properties panel. ( Start > Settings > System > Sound > Select your microphone from the dropdown under Input > Device Properties > Additional device properties)

In PowerPoint, you can add sounds to animations or hyperlinks, described here. You can also play sounds automatically when a slide appears. Add a sound to an animation. You must have previously added an animation effect to the text or object before adding a sound to the animation.

If you accidentally delete a file or folder in OneDrive, you may be able to recover it later from the OneDrive recycle bin. For info about restoring a SharePoint file or folder, see how to restore items from the SharePoint recycle bin.

Enable Windows 10 programs such as Windows Media Player to support activities that include the playback and recording of multimedia files that are encoded with standards-based codecs. Movies & TV: An app that's used to play digital video. Windows Voice Recorder: An app that's used to record sounds.

When you receive a new message in Outlook, you can receive alerts with sounds, a message pop-up notification, or simply a change in the Outlook icon in the status bar. To change these settings, use the following steps. Click the File tab. Click Options > Mail.