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Adobe Illustrator: Fiddly And Frustrating? People new to Adobe Illustrator often say that they find the program complex and hard work. When we hold Adobe Illustrator classes in London, we acknowledge the need to help delegates get rid of the belief that Illustrator is a difficult piece of software to use. We have found that there are three main aspects to showing users that Illustrator is no harder or more annoying than any other application. Common Errors Made By Microsoft Word Users Everybody knows Microsoft Word. It's on almost every PC in the world and fair few Macs as well. However, a lot of users have picked up bad habits, things that detract from the usefulness of the document being created. This article looks at the most common basic errors among Microsoft users. Create a PowerPoint Presentation Based on Your Images PowerPoint presentations are a superb tool for getting a message across to an audience, to potential clients and to your own company and images are great for adding impact to a PowerPoint presentation. So much so that PowerPoint includes a feature that lets you automatically create a complete presentation from a group of images. Get Excel VBA Training And Forget The Macro Recorder Most people's first knowledge of Excel VBA (or Visual Basic for Applications) is recording a macro. As a user performs a series of operations (e.g. opening a workbook activating a particular worksheet, copying some data, etc) Excel will faithfully record each step and create the necessary VBA code. Each time the user runs the macro, these steps are replayed exactly as they were originally recorded. How Adding Bookmarks Can Improve the Interactivity of your PDFs The great thing about PDF documents is that they look exactly like the original document from which they were created but people don't need to buy the software to view them. They just need to download Acrobat Reader, a free utility, from Adobe's web site. InDesign Training Courses Must Include Styles All training courses on Adobe InDesign should include coverage of how to use styles to improve workflow and achieve consistency within a document and within multiple documents. Most computer users at least know what styles are: labelled formats which can be applied to your text to save you having to manually apply each formatting attribute by itself. Even users new to InDesign will probably have used styles in Microsoft Word: "Heading 1", "Heading2", "Normal", etc. However, InDesign's use of styles is much more advanced and we always ensure, when we hold InDesign training courses in London, that we underline their importance. Lightning Fast PowerPoint Presentations Based On Your Images PowerPoint presentations are a great way of communicating and influencing your clients, work colleagues or audience. One of the most important components within presentations are images. This article will show you how to take a group of images and turn them, as if by magic, into a PowerPoint presentation. Microsoft Underdog As Expression Web Takes On Dreamweaver When Microsoft released Office 2007, Microsoft FrontPage was conspicuous by its absence. Its place has been taken by Microsoft Expression Web, a product which clearly aims to take some of Adobe Dreamweaver's huge share of the web design market. For once Microsoft finds itself playing the role of underdog and is sensibly adopting some of the tactics used by Adobe in gaining their dominant position in web design software. The Unstoppable Rise Of Adobe Dreamweaver When we run Dreamweaver training courses, we are always amazed at the number of different types of Dreamweaver user who attend our courses. There is simply no longer a typical Dreamweaver user. We get people working from all types of organisation in all types of role. Private individuals, accounts specialists, marketing specialists, academics, workers in the health services...