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How to Boost Your Sales with Microsoft PowerPoint

Stock PicturePeople are much more likely to buy into something when they can see and hear it. That’s the difference between telling your potential customers about your product or service – and showing them, with Microsoft PowerPoint. We all know that making a sale is about winning people over. A powerful presentation can play a big part in influencing and inspiring your potential customers. As humans we’re much more likely to take in and remember information when we can see and hear it. After just a short Microsoft PowerPoint training course you’ll be well on your way to making the most of this resource to bring your business to life and increase your sales.

 

Power up Your Sales

The more you learn about PowerPoint the more you’ll realise its potential for improving your sales. A PowerPoint training course will give you the skills to create a multi-dimensional sales pitch that you can duplicate and deliver many times to lots of different audiences. These presentations aren’t just great for a “live” audience! You can send PowerPoint presentations direct to clients – or even build them into your business website.  Static text is no match for a powerful combination of images, sounds, and movement.

 

Advanced Features

Lots of us have seen and used PowerPoint at some stage, but most people aren’t aware of how much they can get out of it. PowerPoint training will show you how to create professional-looking visuals – without the expensive graphics or fancy production software. A training course will also equip you to time presentations so that they run automatically, use special effects, embed sounds, add interactive controls, and even integrate Microsoft Word and Excel features.

 

Bring Your Business to Life with Embedded Video Files

Imagination is the most powerful sales resource of them all. So why not encourage your customers to see themselves having a great time using your particular product or service? You could include a video of real people enjoying your products and services in your presentation. Integrating video files to add depth and professionalism to your presentation is easy with the right training.

 

Share Your Message with a Narration Soundtrack 

A PowerPoint training course will give you the skills to embed a sound file and time your slide presentation to automatically follow along. PowerPoint puts you firmly in control of the order of your pitch. It allows you to maintain the flow and order of your presentation to suit you. You can build up the ideas in an way that will inspire your audience.

 

Get Interactive  

Get trained and you’ll find out how to add extra features to make your presentation stand out even more. You could add in some interactive features at the end of your timed presentation to build on the main information. Sending your presentation by email? Here’s an idea. If your presentation highlights three different products, why not add clickable images and link them to slides with further information, pictures, and video demonstrations about the products?

 

We’ve all seen dull presentations given by people who haven’t been trained how to use PowerPoint’s many great features. Make sure your presentations keep your potential customers interested – instead of sending them to sleep!  With a short PowerPoint training course you can inform and engage your contacts and stand out from your competition.

From Error message to Easy access – Using Earlier Versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, to Open & Save files from Office 2007 programs

A few friends of mine recently told me they don’t have a new .docx format and couldn’t open a file in Word format.

 

Do you have Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003 and receive an error message when you try to open a file in Word, Excel or PowerPoint?

 

Error messages include:

  • Windows cannot open this file
  • The file is not in a recognizable format
  • PowerPoint can’t open the type of file represented by filename

 

This article may help you to get rid of the problem.

 

Microsoft has added the new Office Open XML Formats to the following 2007 Microsoft Office programs:

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2007
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
  • Microsoft Office Word 2007

 

Some of the formats have been changed and are now:

  • Word Document (*.docx)
  • Excel Workbook (*.xlsx)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx)

 

To be able to read files in new formats from the earlier versions of Microsoft Office you will need to install and download a Compatibility Pack.

 

A compatibility pack is available to help you open and save Office Open XML formats in earlier versions of Microsoft Office. You can install the compatibility pack on a computer that is running Microsoft Office 2003 programs, Microsoft Office XP programs, or Microsoft Office 2000 programs. When you install the compatibility pack, you can open, edit, save, and create files in the Office Open XML Formats.

 

All you need to do is:

 

1. Make sure that you have all High-Priority updates from Microsoft Update. Just press the Express button from the Welcome to Microsoft Update page and follow the instructions.

 

2. Download the Compatibility Pack by clicking the Download button from the Microsoft website on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en and save the file to your hard disk.

 

3. Double-click the FileFormatConverters.exe program file on your hard disk to start the setup program.

 

4. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

 

These simple steps will ensure you can open and save files in the Office Open XML Formats. They will also mean you have the latest Microsoft Update for your Windows application, which is a MUST for protecting your computer from threats.