John,

   Thank you for answering my plea for help.  As a newbie I have never
touched 'custom animations'.  I did as you suggested and opened up that
interface but I only saw these two elements:

*Master : Body
0   > Slide2.wav

I've tried playing with the options for the sound 'start' options either
click or with previous or after previous but nothing produces the correct
result.  I feel like I'm missing something simple.  

I have two slides.  Slide one is the title slide, has a logo and a one liner
of text.  when the show starts and the audience is seeing the title slide I'd
like the audio to play for that slide.  Right now I have to 'click' the slide
to get the one liner to show up, and only after that does the audio begin.  

Slide two is worse.  I have 3 elements on the slide.  The logo graphic in
the upper right corner, the slide title in the upper left corner and then a
text box with three bullet items in it.  I've got the transition set to
display the bullet points one at a time on the 'click'.  And without the
audio it works and looks great.  But the audio is supposed to speak to each
of those bullet points.  The way it works now is that I click from slide one
to slide two, then I click in the first bullet, then the second, then the
third, then the audio kicks off.  

Do I need to just eliminate the transitions and have them all show at once?  
Do I need to split my recording out and have three one for each bullet?  
Ideally I'd like to click from slide one to slide two, have the audio start
when the slide comes up, then time it so that each bullet point slides in at
the right point in the audio and then save the timing and see how it looks
start to finish.

Any other thoughts?  Thanks again.

Wes

I have a question. I can't remember how to hide the sound icon during the
slide show. I know that you can and I've done it before. Where do I go to
hide this icon? I see hide while NOT playing but I need hide while I am
playing the show.