7 Ways To Reach Your Audience

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As a speaker or presenter, how do you really reach an audience? I’ve seen many different approaches in my years as a Toastmaster, but I had the chance last night to sit in on an amazing presentation. One that reached almost everyone in the audience in an informed and engaged manner for over 90 minutes. [...]

Help… I’m In Powerpoint Hell!

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As a speaker I’ve always had a fascination with Powerpoint, flipcharts, overheads and other visual media. As a kinesthetic-visual learner I always do better with a subject if I can SEE what is going on. Show me a picture, and I will learn better and remember more of what you said. While I like visual [...]

The Most Important Button In Powerpoint

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When you first get started with Powerpoint, you’ll learn a lot of new commands and keystrokes. As you work through the interface you’ll find buttons that you constantly use to make things happen. One of the first little toolbars that you’ll discover is down in the status bar area in most versions of Powerpoint and [...]

Word 2007 Tutorial: Creating A Real Estate Flyer

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The new 2007 Office Suite from Microsoft offers a lot of new functionality for the user. If you have installed one of the popular versions you have undoubtedly noticed the new ribbon interface in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. While this can be intimidating at first, you’ll soon find that it will start to make sense [...]

5 Quick Tips For Word 2007

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When you first open Word 2007 for the first time, you’ll probably be surprised by the changes that Microsoft made to the user interface. Instead of the usual icons and menu selections, you are presented with their new fluent interface, called The Ribbon. This is a totally new way to get things done in the [...]

Instant Project Planner

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You are out to lunch with your co-workers to plan out the new Thornton project. This is a very important task and the representatives from the Thornton company have related the importance of the short timeline for the assignment. You relate to your co-workers that the first draft is due by the end of next [...]