The Computer Magic Training folks celebrated Memorial Day Weekend with BBQ’s, horse rides, hikes, new puppy adventures, movies, and festivals. We hope you enjoyed a relaxing and fun holiday weekend too! Now it’s time to get down to business – and our business is all about giving you more free time! If we can help you become more efficient, more effective in your work, we figure you’ll have more time to play. Isn’t that how it works? We’ve got lots of classes (thru December) to save you even more time on your computer. Especially our new and unique offering below … it’s a Power(Point)ful time-saver! We’re so excited to announce it, we can’t wait till you attend and tell us how incredible it is! Lots of details below!

New Class Schedule thru December!
Our June through December 2007 schedule is now updated on our website! Here’s the link to the schedule with online registration. The printable class schedule will be available to download from on our website on Friday. Some class dates, including most Office 2007 classes, will be updated soon, so please check back again later for updates.

New - PowerPoint Level 3 Masters Class … taught by an Expert!
Have you ever found PowerPoint to be painful? Once you’ve got the basics down, you want to get creative with it. But instead, you get frustrated, wasting lots of time trying to make PowerPoint do a seemingly simple task, or doing repetitive steps over and over and over…

A PowerPoint guru could do the same work in literally 1/6 of the time of an average user!

Here is your chance to get straight answers to the really tough questions and learn all the tricks in the book.

Welcome to our highly personalized PowerPoint Level 3 Masters Class. It is a small hands-on class taught by a PowerPoint guru who has all the answers for you. Kirk has created over 80,000 professional slides for a wide variety of companies, and has taught PowerPoint for organizations like Microsoft and Stanford University.

This class is for experienced users of PowerPoint who wish to:

• Learn many relatively unknown speed tricks
• Know how to strategically edit a presentation or difficult slides
• Get answers to PowerPoint issues, bugs and those seemingly unanswerable questions
• Get their specific questions answered

Here is what you’ll learn in this extraordinary PowerPoint Level 3 Masters class:

• Speed and design – learn ways to eliminate repetitive actions, do easy duplications and much more …
    o How to copy anything by dragging the mouse and keep it 100% aligned.
    o How to copy and paste formatting of text and objects.
    o All the tools of alignment and distribution … FAST.
    o How to cut out 95% of all the repetitive actions.
    o Duplicating custom colors, bullets, etc. very quickly.
    o Resizing various objects identically.
    o How to make semi-transparent multi-colored text.
    o How to draw objects.
    o Putting pictures into any shape and setting their transparency level.
    o How to move between programs almost instantly
    o How to import data from other programs easily into PowerPoint.
    
• Understanding – learn the fundamentals to keep you out of trouble and get the most functionality out of PowerPoint…
    o The 2 fundamentals of PowerPoint that resolve almost every difficulty you run into.
    o Learn the 4 Fundamentals of Art that determine whether a slide looks good or not, so you know how to create a slide correctly.
    o What to do when you made a lot of changes and realize that some were in error and others were not.
    o How multiple masters work.
    o How to set up one presentation for various audience showings. (e.g. slides 1, 3, 30-40 for one, and 3, 45, 89 for another).
    o How to get PowerPoint to record how long you talk on each slide.
    o You can do almost anything in PowerPoint that you can do in Flash.
    o How alignment and distribution works.
    o How to record voice.
    o How to play music over a set of slides.
    o How to copy a picture out of PowerPoint.
    
• Troubleshooting – learn what to do when you run into setup or formatting glitches or printing issues
    o How to majorly reduce file size in a few clicks.
    o How to fix movies that don’t play.
    o How to fix the issue of a movie playing on screen but is blank on your computer.
    o How to deal with Mac vs. PC.
    o What to do when your file corrupts.
    o What to do with semi-transparent colors and WebEx.
    o How to fix black and white printout issues.
    o How to fix copied and pasted bulleted items that refuse to format.
    
• Optimizing – learn ways to configure and strategize to maximize your efficiency in creating your presentation
    o How to configure PowerPoint for very fast work.
    o Strategizing your design work.
    o Working with auto resizing.
    o Strategizing animation design.
    
• Interfacing with other programs (Excel or graphics)
    o Security issues and workarounds for Excel.
    o How to copy and paste cells into tables in a couple of clicks from Excel.
    o How to find the RGB (red, green, blue) values of colors in pictures.
    

This expert class moves very quickly, it’s not for beginners … students should already be experienced and confident in their PowerPoint Level 2 class skills. Because you’ll be getting so much information in a short time, we are offering this class on 2 days in 4-hour sessions, for 8 hour total class time.

Call us to learn more about this new and amazing PowerPoint class!

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!