Do you fear the thought of giving yet another dull PowerPoint Presentation, only to see people’s eyes glaze over and drift off? Do you dream of capturing their attention with a dynamic presentation where your audience is fascinated by you and your message? Yes, you can learn to give memorable presentations with the techniques you’ll discover in our “Presentation Skills with PowerPoint” class.

This class is the perfect mix of PowerPoint tips with Presentation techniques that help you succeed on both fronts – designing effective PowerPoint slides and speaking with impact.

Not only will you learn these techniques, you’ll have the opportunity to practice them in class for immediate improvement!

Please join us for our upcoming classes on April 23rd or June 3rd – and learn to enjoy giving presentations!

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Office 2007 Transition Courses
Microsoft eliminated traditional “Menus” in Office 2007, introducing the concept of “Ribbons” to display more and enhanced features. As you can see from this screen shot, it’s a revolutionary change. Upgraded users are often completely stumped when faced with this radical change without training.

Training employees is essential when converting from Office 2003 to 2007 to avoid massive productivity losses!

We have a variety of classes available to meet your Office 2007 Transition needs:

- Office 2007 New Features class – This is a 1-day upgrade class covering the in-common new features, and then specific new features for each application – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Available in public enrollment and group classes.

- Half-day Office 2007 group classes – We offer 4 half-day modules for group classes on Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. This is optimized for employees who want to focus only on 1 or more subjects for their upgrade.

- Full-day Office 2007 classes – These are the standard Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 classes for Word 2007, Excel 2007, etc … these classes focus on skill enhancement, and cover all features, whether new or pre-existing, for each of the Office 2007 programs.

Please call Sharon Root at (408) 261-2600 to arrange group classes for your employees!

Summer Open House - Save the date - Friday July 18, 2008.

Computer Tips & Tricks

How to Turn Off the AutoPlay Function

Do you waste precious time waiting for AutoPlay to search your flash drive or external hard drive when you plug it in? If you’re annoyed by waiting down-time, you’ll appreciate this helpful tip.

Here’s what happens by default: You plug in your drive and it spends anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes scanning your drive. Finally, a dialog box pops up that says “This disk or device contains more than one type of content. What do you want Windows to do?” It then gives you a number of choices like Play using Windows Media Player, Copy Disk, Copy pictures to a folder on my computer, etc. This AutoPlay function might sometimes be helpful, but if you have a lot of content and it took several minutes to do the scan, you could have made that selection yourself much more quickly.

If you’d like to avoid the time consuming scan, you can turn off the AutoPlay function. Here are the steps to follow –

1. Attach the device to your computer
2. Select the My Computer icon on the Desktop
3. A list of hard drives and other devices will be displayed
4. Place your cursor on the desired device and Right Click on it.
5. Select Properties from the list.
6. When the Properties display appears, select the AutoPlay tab.
7. In the dropdown box, select Music files
8. In the Actions section, press the Select an Action to Perform button, then select Take no action and press Apply
9. Return to the box that says Music files and click the arrow for the drop-down box; select the next option of Pictures. Repeat step 8, again selecting Take no action. You can do the same for Video Files , Mixed Content and Music CD.
10. When you have finished setting each option to Take no action, press Apply and then press OK.

If in the future, you decide you want to re-enable AutoPlay, simply return to this location and click on the Prompt me each time to choose an action, or select one of the other actions to perform.

Let us empower you and your employees to achieve success in your professional goals and increase your productivity with individual or group classes of the highest quality! Please call us at (408) 261-2600 or email us at sharon@computermagictraining.com. Or visit us at www.computermagictraining.com for more information & on-line registration!