Create PowerPoint Presentations that Sizzle!

Your boss is counting on you to win that new account. Sure, you've used PowerPoint before but only with bulleted text and cheesy clipart. This time it's got to be different because you know the software can do more. Where can you turn in a hurry?

Egeland Wood & Zuber, Inc. specializes in PowerPoint training. Students say we put the "power" into their PowerPoint presentations. Our curriculum enhances employee productivity and eliminates the last minute fire-drill mode of creating presentations. We teach critical design tips and presentation techniques that communicates a message that gets results!

Work Smart-Not Harder

These are just some of the topics you'll learn in our two-day PowerPoint training class:

• Unlocking the secrets of slide masters to create, update or change the look of presentations in seconds.
• Using the power features of PowerPoint to outline, organize and develop presentations
• How to jazz-up presentations by adding multimedia with interactive menus, sound, animation and special effects
• Adding impact with color photographs, animated business graphs and charts that build
• Setting-up effective builds and slide transitions.
• Easily importing Excel spreadsheet data to create charts
• Inserting audio/video clips in a presentation.
  Printing from PowerPoint: Slides, handouts and overhead.
• The importance of understanding file formats and using them with images
• Proper housekeeping and organization of files
• Running presentations from the computer.
• Setting up custom shows

Advanced PowerPoint Training

Our advanced PowerPoint training class is designed for the professional within an organization that spends a major portion of their time creating presentations. This individual usually has a graphic design background and software experience in many applications. For this person, time is money so finding ways to save time and while improving creativity is a constant goal. The advanced PowerPoint curriculum is highly customized to meet the needs of this power-user. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Advanced PowerPoint tips and techniques using Macromedia Flash, Excel and Word
• Adding multimedia and special effects using Adobe Premiere, Sound Forge, Macromedia Flash, Quicktime and AVI
• Creating exciting backgrounds, images and 3D buttons for menus using CorelDRAW, CorelPHOTO-PAINT, CorelXARA, Ulead PhotoImpact, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand and Fireworks
• Raster image editing and scanning secrets using Corel PHOTO-PAINT, CorelXARA, Adobe Photoshop, Ulead PhotoImpact
• Understanding file types and file optimization techniques using Ulead SmartSaver, CorelPHOTO-PAINT, Adobe ImageReady
• Setting-up and maintaining a library of PowerPoint presentations
• Creating mini-presentations within a single PowerPoint file that are tailored for different audiences using Microsoft PowerPoint
• Creating PowerPoint presentations for the Internet using Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat