PowerPoint Training Books - PowerPoint Presentation Training Guide Books | PainFree Presentations

Advent Media, Inc.’s founder, Steve Puffenberger, has literally “written the book” on presentations. This 200 page guide book applies the time-honored principles of projection physics and the limitations of eyesight to "slideware" programs like PowerPoint™, and shows how setting, content, design and delivery all work together to create winning presentations.

This book explores the concept of putting a screen in a room, and making a presentation that can be seen and heard by everyone in the audience. As a presenter you're responsible for controlling all the variables if you want your message heard loud and clear.  Learn what they are and you can deliver a presentation that is truly pain free.

The contents are not just about PowerPoint.  The principles apply to any "slideware" software, as well as big-screen video, and printed material like signs, posters and banners. The principles apply to any kind of event – sales presentation, technical report, conference keynote, conference breakout session, awards ceremony, academic classroom or lecture, training class, board meeting, press conference, or sermon – any place you use a projected image to support what you have to say.

• The Impression  Learn the three axioms that make this the most important chapter
• The Setting  Why "where," "to whom," and "when" are the three most important questions to ask
• Content  No matter what you have to say, you have too much. How to shape it to fit your setting 
• Design Prerequisites What you need to understand about how eyes perceive what you put on a screen  
• Design Rules Seven easy to remember "rules" that will solve 90% of presentation problems
• Applied Design Step-by-step instructions on making PowerPoint work for you 
• Delivery How Dancing with the Stars can be your inspiration to great presenting
• AV Tech What all those plugs and wires do; what to ask for when acquiring equipment
• Show Day To click or not to click, that is the question; how to work with professionals or go it alone
• PLUS Access to our exclusive Type Size Calculator program

There's more to a presentation than PowerPoint.  If you're a teacher or professor looking for a textbook on presentations, don't just give your students a "how to" on PowerPoint button pushing.  PainFree Presentations is a textbook for business, finance, engineering, architecture, medicine and other fields where students need both to further their careers and to create award-winning presentations in competitions.  Contact our publisher for academic bulk discounts.

If you're a teacher or student in a graphic design program and you have a unit on presentations, you need PainFree Presentations.  Author Steve Puffenberger says, "I've seen graphic designers do incredibly beautiful work...that is totally illegible 20-feet away with the lights on."  Designers need to "think outside the box but design within the box" of human perception and projection physics.  What you see on your monitor is not necessarialy what an audience will see on the screen - you have to adapt to the presentation environment.  Learn how to control all the variables of projection with PainFree Presentations.

If you're a student in any academic program and need to deliver a presentation for a grade, learning PowerPoint isn't enough! (You can do that for free, by the way, with our Learn PowerPoint for Free tutorial.)  Download PainFree Presentations and learn how to make your next presentation rise above the rest by controlling distractions and maximizing your impact.