Synching slides to music beat in Premier Elements 3.0

I'd like to synch up slides to the beat of added music in Premier Elements 3.0. The help section seems to suggest that this can be done, but I haven't been able to figure it out. Can someone kindly walk me through the process?

Thank you guys for your suggestions, which I appreciate very much.
I did solve the problem of precisely synching up my slides manually to the beat of the music by double clicking on the music timeline, which brings up a Preview box showing the music graphically. By expanding the Preview box, vertically and horizontally (quite large), I'm able to very precisely locate the beat of the music. There are still so many capabilities in the software that I have yet to learn.

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I prefer the Expert workspace rather than the Quick in version 12, but you can still move the images in the Quick Filmstrip spaces with a click and drag, left or right as appropriate. So, I am not sure what you ran into in the Quick workspace in that regard.
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