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Sound Across Specific Slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Once you add an audio track such as a music clip to your PowerPoint slides, you can let the inserted audio span across all your slides from the first one to the last by selecting the convenient Play Across Slides option. Yes, that’s a great solution if you need the same music clip to be playing while looping on all your slides. However, in the real world, there will always be a need for something different. What if you want the music to play only across some successive slides? What if you want the music to play from slide numbers 2 to 12, and let all subsequent slides play without any music? Or you may want to add another audio clip for the next set of slides? Either way, it is possible to limit the number of slides that your music will play across.

Loop audio clips to play across specific slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Audio, Microsoft Windows, Multimedia, Music, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Sounds, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: August 1, 2017

We begin with a tutorial on PowerPoint’s new abilities to add 3D models. We also feature a guest post by Alla Yates, author of Utter Confidence. Alla asks whether you are a pusher or a puller? James Ontra from Shufflrr takes a closer look at how Presentation Management is strategic to Enterprise Communication. He puts across many ideas that can help you increase productivity with your presentations. Marcia Reynolds, who has coached leaders in 36 countries talks about her book, The Discomfort Zone. She explains how you need to get people in the discomfort zone when “you are in the business of activating people’s hearts and minds to make important changes.” Olaf Nöhring talks about her free add-in for PowerPoint called Progress Indicator that lets you implement a progress indicator in your PowerPoint slides. Finally, did you know all about picture copyrights? You must read this story about the Iceberg picture.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Advanced Video Options, Playing Video Across Slides, Inserting Flash Movies using the Developer Tab, and Shape Styles. PowerPoint 2013 users can learn how to Acquire or Create a Digital Signature. Finally, do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates of this week.

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Walking the Tightrope

By Sarah Rowlands

Image: Unsplash

1859, Niagara Falls. Charles Blondin, celebrated French tightrope walker, strolls calmly across a tightrope stretched 160 feet above the falls. The amazed spectators and press hold their collective breath as Blondin performs extraordinary feats such as standing on one leg and lying down for a rest on the tightrope. In later variations, Blondin crossed on stilts, blindfolded, in a gorilla costume, and pushed a wheelbarrow. The most daring, however, was his offer to the crowd upon his first attempt: Would anyone be willing to cross the falls with me, on my back?

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Tagged as: Guest Post, PowerPoint

Sound Across Slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

After inserting an audio file, such as a music file within your PowerPoint presentation, do you want to play this sound track across slides without any interruption when you move from one slide to another? Firstly, if a live speaker is spearheading the presentation, then you don’t want to add a sound that spans across slides. Why? Because then the sound will distract the audience, and also the speaker. However, if you are showing a sequence of slides that includes pictures and no live presenter is required to speak to the audience, then adding a sound across slides may be a great idea. Even then, a soothing background music score playing across your presentation slides can be a good fit. Stay away from loud or jarring tracks.

Loop a sound clip to play across slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Audio, Microsoft Windows, Music, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Sounds, Tutorials

How to Make Your Voice a Pleasure to Listen to – So You Grab Your Audience’s Attention

By Andrew P Bennett, Toastmasters International

Using vocal variety to make your voice a pleasure to listen to means you’re more likely to grab and hold your audience’s attention.

So, how do you develop vocal variety?

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