Corporate Training By Zack Academy - How to Create and Deliver Exceptional PowerPoint Presentations

Why Should You Take This How to Create and Deliver Exceptional PowerPoint Presentations Workshop?

How to Create and Deliver Exceptional PowerPoint Presentations is the easiest and fastest way to master the PowerPoint production skills you need to create clear, concise presentations every time! You'll learn how to use PowerPoint's newest multimedia tools and design features to create remarkable presentations that are guaranteed to amaze your audience. You'll see dozens of expert examples of the countless ways you can use PowerPoint to illustrate your points with style, explain complex or technical information in an easy-to-understand manner, and make your presentation one that your audience won't soon forget! You'll leave with your head filled with creative ideas you'll be eager to use on your very next presentation.

Today's tech-savvy audiences are getting increasingly sophisticated and tougher to impress every day. In fact, creating and delivering well-structured, high-tech presentations is not only vital to your message — it's expected. What's more, a poorly designed presentation can ruin your message — and even damage your credibility and reputation. That's why you can't afford to miss How to Create and Deliver Exceptional PowerPoint Presentations.

PowerPoint Basics for Getting Your Presentation Off to a Solid Start:

• 10 essentials of an effective PowerPoint presentation
• Planning steps that will save you time and grief on the back end
• Wizards and templates – what's the difference and when to use them
• Tour the 5 PowerPoint screen views and learn how to change them in a flash
• Where to find the best free PowerPoint templates and backgrounds
• Customizing your presentation by creating your own templates
• Design Trick: Examples of PowerPoint unleashed, PowerPoint goof-ups, and PowerPoint Hall of Shame 

Building Exciting Slides to Drive Your Points Home:

• The secret to structuring a well-organized presentation
• How to create an outline and build slides in one easy step
• Tips for using Apply Design to create a master slide
• The easy way to select, cut, copy and paste slides
• Create, edit, place and adjust text boxes
• Using text alignment to create professional looking slides
• Design Trick: The importance of limiting the amount of information on a slide – and how to determine the correct amount

Design Tips for Giving Your Presentation Professional Polish:

• Picking a graphic look and tone that enhance your overall message
• The emotions of color: How choosing the right – or wrong – color can impact your message
• Using type fonts to convey the tone you want
• Maximize your presentation design with these simple layout techniques
• Design Trick: An inexpensive tool that guarantees complementary color combinations every time 

Easy Formatting Methods for Creating a Flawless Presentation:

• How to rotate and resize objects, crop photos and more
• Tricks for leading the viewer's eye to critical data
• Learn the basics of graphics image-editing
• The secret to creating a flow that naturally leads the viewer from slide to slide
• Design Trick: How-to's for building easy-to-understand graphs, charts and tables to convey complex information

Adding Multimedia and Other Special Effects to Make Your Presentation Sizzle:

• Learn when and how to use clip art in your slides
• How to incorporate sound, video and animation clips into your slides
• Explore the 50+ animation settings available from PowerPoint
• Learn where to find additional high-quality illustrations and graphics for your presentation
• Personalize a single slide by recording a sound or comment (in PowerPoint 2003)
• Design Trick: Tour some of the coolest add-ins that can push your PowerPoint presentation to the extreme! 

Incorporating Other Office Applications and the Web Into Your Presentation:

• Learn how to link one presentation to another
• Import information from your local intranet
• How to create links to live Web pages while connected to the Internet
• Using your systems cache to access Web pages when connecting to the Internet isn't possible
• Design Trick: Tips for moving seamlessly between applications and the Web without any glitches

Details for Delivering Your First-Rate Presentation with Style:

• How to customize one show for multiple audiences
• Key steps for setting up a timed presentation
• Create a "looping show" for pre-shows, breaks and exit shows
• Producing eye-catching handouts that will enhance your presentation's effectiveness
• Adding page numbers, headers and footers to your printed slides
• Design Trick: How-to's for publishing your finished presentation on the Web