COURSE DESCRIPTION: Most PowerPoint users fall into one of two groups:
- Cautious cruisers: Since PowerPoint is so easy to learn, they quickly develop a narrow skill set and produce the same presentation design over and over again. These users are uninspiring but do no harm.
- Risk takers: They explore PowerPoint’s many features (like animation) and continually experiment with new ways to dazzle their audience. These users are just good enough to be dangerous.
Whichever group you’re in, you can do better. This “advanced” course assumes you’re using PowerPoint with some success, but you know that the next level of mastery could make the messages you’re conveying – and you – more powerful. The key goals of this 60-minute event are to:
- Reveal tools you’re not aware of but that can enhance your presentations
- Show you ways you may be misusing certain tools (ahem, animiation) and offer suggestions for using them more powerfully
- Build smarter slides that work with you, not against you.
- Create trust with your audience with sensible use of effects, designed to augment your message.
- Be more efficient with your navigation around the interface to reduce tedium and the risk of repetitive stress injury.
Specifically, our speaker Rick Altman will guide participants in:
- Animation without Embarrassment:
When audience members think of animation, they normally associate it with obnoxious and annoying use of a tool that would be better off nuked into oblivion. That's unfortunate because some of the very best work that can be done with a slide deck would owe its success in large part to appropriate and skillful use of animation.
Most of us live our lives and create our slide decks by going from Point A to Point B. There is a whole other world out there for those who can grasp simple concepts using tools they probably did not know existed.
- Building a better interface:
Who decided that the Standard toolbar should have the Save command on it? The engineers at Microsoft did their best to try to anticipate your preferences and habits; how did they do? What if they got it all wrong? You probably didn't know that you could completely redesign the interface of Version 2003 and customize to a great degree the ribbons of Version 2007.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Rick Altman has been creating content and delivering presentations since before Microsoft introduced PowerPoint. He has authored 15 books on presentations and graphics, including his current work, "Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck...and how you can make them better." Altman's work takes him front and center with the user community, where he works regularly as a consultant on content and message creation, presentation design, and delivery. He is the host of the PowerPoint Live User Conference, now in its seventh season (www.pptlive.com). The conference attracts up to 250 presentation professionals from all over the world for four days of workshops on technique, design, message, and delivery.
 MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund your full fee if you’re not satisfied. It's risk-free.
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