Need help selling your ideas?

Today more than ever, we must sell our ideas - to clients, peers, and management, and PowerPoint is key to making your ideas stand out above the rest. No professional can afford to be without expertise in using the full-featured presentation graphics available in PowerPoint. With this easy to use application and its powerful graphics tools, you're never more than a few mouse clicks away from turning out exciting presentations for any situation that calls for informing, persuading, or convincing others.

Even though PowerPoint makes creating a presentation easy, the real trick to selling your ideas is finding the perfect combination of text, graphics and multimedia. You'll learn to choose design techniques and schemes that complement, not overpower, your message, and presentation tips to make sure your presentation "sells".

Key Training Points:

• Using the Office 2007 user interface
• Entering and editing presentation text
• Inserting objects and graphics
• Running an on-screen slideshow

How many PowerPoint presentations have you seen, or worse given, where the slides are nothing but lists of bullets --- and the speaker just reads them to the audience?  Never do that again!

Your audience will not only be bored, but they may also think you're wasting their time. Worse, they are not likely to remember anything you say.

Instead of using bullets, communicate visually! New in PowerPoint 2007 is Microsoft's SmartArt. Use SmartArt to take your bulleted text from average to great by displaying the bulleted text in graphic shapes.  Not only is it easier to communicate using a picture, but people remember things that have been communicated to them visually using pictures and graphics.

Finally, add music, animation, movies and sound to create an outstanding, memorable presentation.

Key Training Points:

• Adding animation and special effects
• Converting bulleted text to SmartArt
• Inserting sound and movies
• Creating slide transitions

This advanced level PowerPoint seminar helps you pull your presentation together by learning to create customized slide backgrounds; use hyperlinks and action buttons to link and automate your presentations; and add more detailed graphics and diagrams to your presentation.

• Creating organization charts and diagrams
• Creating custom shows
• Working with action buttons and hyperlinks
• Using slide masters

Want to make your presentations sing and sizzle? Learn to add music, movies and sound to your presentations. Special multimedia effects are just one topic covered in this intermediate PowerPoint seminar.

Topics include:

• Drawing objects onto a slide
• Adding charts and graphs
• Working with tables
• Customizing slides
• Adding animation and special effects

Do you need to present information in a sophisticated, professional manner? Use Microsoft PowerPoint to wow your audience. In this introductory seminar, you will learn to create effective handouts, overheads, and electronic slideshows to use for your presentations.

• Entering and editing presentation text
• Inserting objects and graphics
• Running an on-screen slideshow