Now hear this: 1,500 more free sounds and music files at Office.com

As reported in TechCrunch this week, Office.com recently added 1,500 free sound and music files from AudioMicro. These sounds can enhance a PowerPoint presentation,  surprise readers in a Word doc, or provide background music for a slide show.

AudioMicro offers a free credit if you want to buy sounds and music from their immense 250,000 file site. But the array of free offerings at Office.com is far-ranging, including the mundane (a sneeze, a baby crying, typing on a keyboard), a Happy Birthday riff,  and some excellent background music:

• A building synthesizer piece (And Now) 
• A Schwarzenegger-ish action bit (Aftermath Tag)
• A mellow tribal beat (Afrique)
• A Windham Hill-ish piano piece (Chasing fireflies)
• Motivating music you’ve heard in every marketing video (Logical short)
• A country road tune (Wanderings1)
• A chill-out action piece (Into the heat)
• And my new theme song (Gloryhound).

To find any sound, go to the image and sound library at Office.com and in the giant search box, search for anything. Just select the sound check box to limit your search to sounds and music.

--Doug Thomas