PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Working With Slide Numbers

If your presentation has many slides, it will be easy to identify the current slide as long as you have enabled slide numbers on your slides. In PowerPoint you have to make these slide numbers visible since they don’t show by default.

Learn how to add Slide Numbers on slides and Masters in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows, — and more tricks on making them work to your will.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Switch Views Between Multiple Presentations

There will be times when you have to work with more than one presentation in PowerPoint. You can easily open two or more presentation next to each other which makes it easy to compare presentations and edit them as well. This is also helpful when you want to copy or move slides from one presentation to another. However what if you do not want to compare or copy slides? Let’s imagine you have four presentations open and you can only see the one that is active. What about the other three presentations? How do you navigate to those presentations without having to close the active presentation?

Learn how to switch views between multiple presentations in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups: Conversation with Rodney Saulsberry

Rodney Saulsberry is one of the top voice-over talents in the United States, and author of the new book, Rodney Saulsberry’s Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups. For more than a decade the Detroit native and University of Michigan graduate has given voice to many successful commercial campaigns, including Toyota Camry, Alpo, Verizon, and numerous movie trailers such as, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Finding Forrester, Tupac Resurrection, Friday and Dumb & Dumberer. Rodney resides in Agoura, California.

In this conversation, Rodney discusses his new book, Rodney Saulsberry’s Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups.

Geetesh: Rodney, your new book, Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups is very different than other voice-over books in the sense that this book provides practical suggestions and tips to improve voice results. How did you realize that a book of this sort was needed?

Rodney: I wrote my first book, You Can Bank on Your Voice in 2004. The response to that book was very positive and there became a demand for another book from me that resulted in me writing my second book Step Up to the Mic.

These books started to make many people consider me, an expert in the field and so several requests came for me to teach, so I did. Through the years I kept getting the same questions from my students over and over again. One day it dawned on me that the reason myself and other coaches continued to get asked the same questions over and over again, is because none of us were answering these questions in a simple and practical way. When that light went on in my head, I started writing this new book, and the response has been phenomenal. The feedback has a main theme, customers write, that I made it simple, plain, and clear.

Geetesh: Can you share some tongue twisters? Also how can professionals such as presenters, speakers, trainers, and instructors benefit from the tongue twisters and vocal warm-ups?

Rodney: Tongue twisters are a group of words that are designed for practicing pronunciation and to gain fluency in whatever you are about to do vocally. It should also be noted that my tongue twisters are neither grammatically correct nor necessarily meaningful. They are simply tools to get you warmed up before speaking or singing.

The tongue twisters and vocal warm-ups in this book are beneficial to anyone who uses there voice to make a living. That includes not only voice-over actors and singers, but presenters, speakers, trainers and instructors can benefit from this book too.

Experts agree that tongue twisters:

1. Stimulate memory, focus, and concentration;
2. Improve your listening perception and comprehension;
3. Increase your speech speed;
4. Help you speak with precision and no mistakes; and
5. Entertain both children and adults while learning.

Wouldn’t you like to do something that promised to deliver that kind of results?

Remember, it’s not just speed that you should strive to accomplish while reading a tongue twister. The challenge to read exactly what is on the page with the proper energy and vocal dexterity gets you ready to do the same when you start reading your copy.

Here are a few sample excerpts from the book.

Tongue Twisters

Bipidy bumpidy ripidy rumpidy
Ripidy bumpidy boo
Bipidy bumpidy ripidy rumpidy
Let’s make it harder to do
Bumzidy rumzidy dumzely clumzely
Hopefully soon we’ll be through
With bipidy bumpidy ripidy rumpidy
Stop when your pink tongue turns blue

The beast in the east is trying to feast
On fresh fish from French Freddy’s buffet
Frowning freaking fretless weeping
For fresh salmon that fled far away
The beast in the east is trying to feast
On fried fish from San Frisco Bay
Fraught from failure to fetch from the barrel
Fresh fish from French Freddy’s buffet

Why in the world would a whale want water?
When a whale wants water will a well run dry?
Why in the world would a wet whale want wet water?
Will a wet whale want wet water when a wet well runs dry?

Properly press the purple and black pleated plaid pants you own
Prepare to put your purple and black pleated plaid pants on
Properly press the purple and black pleated plaid pants you own
Now properly dressed in your purple and black pleated plaid pants be gone

Thirty-three thumb throbbing thick throttle thinkers thought the thirsty throttle thumper threw the throw.

Copyright © 2015 Rodney Saulsberry. All rights reserved.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

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Tagged as: Books, Interviews, Rodney Saulsberry, Voice, Voice-overs

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Add Headers and Footers to Slides

The terms Header and Footer typically come from word processing programs — these denote repeated elements that show at the top and bottom of every page. Headers and Footers work similarly on PowerPoint slides — the Footer is a line of text that usually appears at the bottom of a slide. By default, the footer with one or more of three placeholders appears on every slide in a presentation — but you can change that as required.

Learn how to add Headers and Footers to slides in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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PowerPoint and Presenting News: May 19, 2015

As part of our Overcoming Clichéd Pictures series, we look at how you can find alternatives to the Phone Operator clichéd visual concept. We then try to understand Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking. We bring you two exclusive interviews this week — one with Joel Harband of Speech-Over 5, who talks about a PowerPoint add-in that automatically generates and adds voice-over narrations to your slides. In the second interview, Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate discusses their amazing Storyline 2 product that lets you create inter-activities and eLearning content. PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about dictionaries, spell checks, and replacing words. PowerPoint 2010 users can explore adding Picture Layout SmartArt graphics. Finally, don’t miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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