About Ellen Finkelstein

Ellen has been using AutoCAD since 1986 and PowerPoint since 1996.  She is a recognized expert, speaker, and best-selling author on AutoCAD, PowerPoint, and presenting effectively. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She is Associate Editor of Inside PowerPoint, published by Eli Journals.

Her Web site offers a huge assortment of tips, techniques, tutorials, and articles on these topics.

As a best-selling author, her books have sold over 300,000 copies and been translated into over 14 languages. Her most current books are:

• 101 Tips Every PowerPoint User Should Know
• 7 Steps to Great Images
• AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009 Bible
• How to Do Everything with PowerPoint 2007
• Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds for Dummies
• PowerPoint For Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects (with Pavel Samsonov)
• Flash CS4 for Dummies (with Gurdy Leete)

Her video course is:

PowerPoint 2007: Make the Upgrade Easy

Ellen's articles on AutoCAD have appeared on Autodesk's Web site, in Inside AutoCAD, a monthly newsletter, and others. Her articles on PowerPoint have appeared in Presentations magazine, Presentation Xpert, Computer Companion, and slideshare.net, among others.

Training, coaching, and consulting

Ellen conducts workshops and webinars that help people present more effectively. She also offers coaching and consulting.

Speaking topics

• Effective Presenting in the 21st Century
• How to Prevent Death by PowerPoint
• Workshop: Transform Your Presentations from Boring Bullets to Powerful Persuasion
• Quick Makeovers with the Tell 'n' Show^SM Method of Slide Design
• Presenting to Persuade and Motivate
• Presenting to Teach and Inform
• Stop Boring Your Audience!
• PowerPoint for Low-Cost Training
• Workshop: PowerPoint for Kiosk and Web-Based Presentations
• Workshop: Add Pizzazz to Presentations with Advanced Animation and Graphic Techniques
• Cater to Your Audience with Audience-Centered Presentations
• Presenting Scientific and Numerical Data
• Workshop: Getting the Most out of PowerPoint 2007

Other customized topics and workshops are available.

What People Say About Ellen Finkelstein

"Recently, when we were putting together a presentation on our homes for sale, we ... called Ellen Finkelstein and asked for her help. She zeroed in on exactly what knowledge we needed to easily create a professional-looking presentation. She knew the best way to add a voice-over, helped us download the program, and offered great tips that made the whole process easy for us. Miraculously, she did all this in a short, one-hour consultation. Consulting with Ellen made all the difference for us." -Nancy Walker and Martin Brett, Owners Vastu Design & Construction, Inc. Fairfield, Iowa

"How to Do Everything With Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is yet another winner by Ellen Finkelstein. ….wonderful real world examples on how to use ordinary features in interesting ways to give your presentations some pizzazz.” - Wendy Russell, About.com: Presentation Software

"Your articles and training information are great." - Paul S.

"Your PowerPoint newsletter is extremely informative and helpful!" - D. Terencio

"Saved me! Thank you!!! Your tip on how to extract ALL text from powerpoint saved me!I have a tendency to start actually writing my work in Powerpoint,
then have to go back and so on... the tip to extract text from PDF was fabulous." - S.I.

"I enjoyed your article and used many of your suggestions for my second speech at my Toastmaster's club. Prior to reading your article, I had designed a text-heavy slide show that included a colorful background. Based on your advice I changed my entire PowerPoint presentation so that there were only 7 simple slides with powerful graphics. The slides worked! The audience wasn't distracted by the slides and I felt in control of the presentation instead of the PowerPoint slides controlling my speech." -Melissa Kew

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Fairfield, IA 52556

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