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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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Sounds come in so many file types: MP3, WMA, or WAV files are just the common types that you can insert in PowerPoint slides. These sound files automatically embed into your presentation; this means that you no longer have to worry about linked files getting misplaced or lost like you had to in previous versions of PowerPoint. Even then, it is a good practice to keep your sound files in the same folder in which you save your PowerPoint 2016 presentation even before you insert them, as we show you in the following steps.
Learn to insert audio clips in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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By Olaf Nöhring
Probably you know this situation: your presentation gets longer and longer and you want to help your audience to know which topic you are on and help them keep track of what has been covered already and what is still coming up. Unfortunately, PowerPoint does not provide an easy way to implement a progress indicator like this. This is where the free Progress Indicator add-in comes into play.
The free Progress Indicator add-in provides an easy and intuitive way to add visual structure for your audience (and yourself), as well as easy and quick navigation options that allow you to jump to every slide of your presentation.
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Dr. Marcia Reynolds has trained and coached leaders in 36 countries. She spent 16 years working in large corporations, taking one company from near bankruptcy to top IPO in the US in 1993. She is a Master Certified Coach and teaches for coach training schools in the US, Europe, and Asia. With a doctorate in Organizational Psychology, Dr. Reynolds brings a valuable combination of neuroscience and psychology to her work. Her expert advice has been spotlighted in numerous publications, including Fast Company, Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, and she has spoken at high-profile venues and universities around the world.
In this conversation, Marcia talks about her book, The Discomfort Zone.
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PowerPoint’s fill, line, and effect attributes enable you to customize the look of shapes and other slide objects in your presentation. However, it may take ages to get that perfect color combination and even after spending so much time, the final look may not match the Theme of your presentation. Shape Styles is an awesome option to overcome this problem. Shape Styles are a collection of prebuilt styles housed within a gallery of the same name. These styles are all Theme-specific. What does this mean? It means that if a presentation’s Theme changes, you’ll end up with new Shape Styles.
Explore Shape Styles with fills, outlines, and effects in PowerPoint 2016.
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Tagged as: Effects, Fills, Lines, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Shape Styles, Shapes, Tutorials
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