Kessler Associates

Google+ Business Pages

2011-11-17T15:44:00.006Z

There was a time when Facebook was the be-all and end-all of social networking. Since 7 November 2011, the balance has apparently shifted. Google+ moved up a gear with its Business Pages.

Twitter is one of our favourite tools for getting our message out on a regular basis, and you can always follows us here: @KesslerAssoc.

But now Google+ is offering a very useful method of communicating with clients and contacts, not least because Google+ is tied in with Google search. Let's face it, if you're searching for something these days, you're more likely to use Google than any other major search engine. While Facebook pages have been good, they don't index so well simply because they and Google are not the best of friends.

Google+ business pages could overshadow Facebook's version to a serious extent.

Pages can be created in five categories (Local Business or Place; Product or Brand; Company, Institution or Organisation; Arts, Entertainment or Sports; Other). This makes things easier for businesses, while helping users when they search for brands by categories.

With twenty times less users than on Facebook, the Google+ stream is less cluttered and give posts a longer shelf life.

Circles allow Pages to send messages to specific groups. The process is also faster than on Facebook.

That's not bad. So to test the water, Kessler Associates has created its own Google+ business page. It's still in its early stages, but why not visit us there, leave a comment or two, or have a chat. You can find us at Kessler Associates Google+ Page.

Case Study - Word Templates 1

2011-09-14T10:17:00.003Z

To highlight how Word and PowerPoint template projects can be arranged for you, we've written a few case studies. These examine individual projects and the clients involved with them so that we can show what kind of background they have, what kind of templates they need, and how we complete the project.

The first of our case studies covers a Word document templates project that started as far back as 1999 and is still going strong today. The client is a housing association based in the south of England. We built them a set of advanced level 'wizard' templates, with complex programming and dialogue boxes that request the information to be placed into each new document, such as subject, recipient name and address, sign-off details, and even a choice of company logo and division.

Once all the information has been entered and the OK button is clicked, all that information is placed into its correct position on the page (whether it be a letter, fax, memo, or report). All the user has to do next is start typing the document's content. Much of the detail entered into the dialogue boxes can be saved and re-used, especially recipient addresses and sign-off names and job positions.

This approach makes document creation a very simple and straightforward process, and minimises the opportunity for users to make changes to the company's document layout. Any number of templates can be included in this automated approach, and older templates can also be bundled with them, with an option to run them from the custom Word toolbar that comes with the templates. The toolbar (shown in the image below) is where all the options covering the use of your templates are stored, just like any of the menus in Word. The user just clicks on a single option or button to create a new document or run any number of other options.

This first case study also shows you what happens after the completion of the first stages of the project. In this case, several updates and upgrades have been requested over the years, along with several new templates, as the association's requirements changed. Take a look for yourself and see how a set of professionally designed and constructed templates can help you.

Visit the case studies page and download the first two case studies in PDF format.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Kessler Associates Portfolio

2011-04-06T10:51:00.000Z

Over the past few months, Kessler Associates has regularly been publishing photos to an album on our Facebook page which displays the very best bits of our portfolio. You can see that album by visiting our Facebook page and viewing the photos section.

You can find the Kessler Associates Facebook page here: http://on.fb.me/f1BcUl

The portfolio picture album can be found here: http://on.fb.me/gBVo7z

If you click on the 'Like' button on the main page, you will be able to join the discussions, ask us any questions you may have, and comment on the portfolio itself.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Freelance Marketing Representative

2011-02-14T11:17:00.000Z

Kessler Associates is seeking a marketing representative to help locate new clients. Work is paid on a commission-only basis, but you are free to pursue any avenues of enquiry and also follow up on old clients who have not been active for some time.

This would be ideal for marketing students who wish to gain some experience, but also for anyone who has some free time and who doesn't mind using the telephone. Full details and terms can be supplied to you upon request.

Please visit the contact page on the Kessler Associates web site and let us know that you are interested.

Online Networking

2011-01-25T12:26:00.002Z

Business networking via the Internet has increased immensely in the past few years, but does it actually work?

It has become more and more acceptable to admit that business networking sites have a key role to play in supporting small and medium sized companies across the UK.

Many of these companies now have Facebook pages representing their businesses. They have a presence on LinkedIn, they tweet soundbites of their every move on their Twitter account, and smaller companies and sole traders can bid for jobs on sites such as PeoplePerHour.com, The Business Network Online, and a newer rival, OfficeCavalry.com. Business owners can now spend hours of their working day making new links, quoting online for projects, and posting portfolio photos and information to their business profiles. But what's it all for?

Since September 2010, Kessler Associates has been conducting an experiment in making contacts and bidding for work online and the results have been eye-opening. Or rather the lack of results.

We created a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kessler-Associates/61606971514

We registered a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/#!/KesslerAssoc

We opened a LinkedIn account at http://uk.linkedin.com/in/kesslerassociates

And we registered at PeoplePerHour and Office Cavalry and started bidding for projects.

Four months later, we have eighteen 'fans' on Facebook, we have tweeted 58 times, we have 97 LinkedIn connections, we have bid for twenty-two projects on PeoplePerHour.com and one on the brand new OfficeCavalry site.

That tidy sum has involved a great many hours of writing contact messages, trimming uplifting tweets to fit the strict word count required, calculating and wording hopeful bids, creating and uploading portfolio pictures and PDF-format portfolio files, writing profile content, editing profile content to improve it, and then editing it again because the earlier version didn't look right, and wading through pages and pages of material from other companies doing the same thing to see if we could offer them any services which they might find useful.

There’s no doubt that the opportunity to meet new customers and gain better and more competitive quotes from a wider supplier base is absolutely critical – and that’s where online business networking should come in - but there is clearly a danger of going too far with it.

Four months of work and the results were surprising. Not one single working project has been generated from any of the activities described above. In fact, the only newly-generated work in that time has come from direct email contact to businesses; a message sent to one individual in the hope that they like what you are saying and agree that there are grounds for working together.

The amount of time you can spend at networking online can be hugely disproportionate to the return, as we have clearly found. Ultimately, networking of this kind allows you to reach more people with less effort, to identify and connect with the right people more quickly, and to reduce travel time and expense. Just be careful that you are doing what is useful for your business, and not simply broadcasting to an audience that isn't listening. And that includes blog-writing too!

Kessler Associates Translations

2010-09-24T16:02:00.003Z

We've been busy marketing the translations side of our work by adding Kessler Associates Translations to a few databases, online directories, and translation market sites.

You can now find us on ProZ.com, the translation workplace, where you can see our profile and a large number of the language combinations in which we can work.

Remember that if you need any of your documents translated, just drop us a line and we'll find the best translator to handle the project. We promise to get back to you as quickly as possible, and will work on your translations at a truly inhuman rate in order to complete them, although this won't compromise the quality of the work in any way. That's a promise.

Kessler Associates Printhouse

2010-09-02T13:15:00.007Z

Something new from Kessler Associates is our Printhouse.

Although not something that was foreseen at the start of the year, it has turned out to be a natural extension of the translations services we have already been offering for some time.

With this new, and exciting, additional service, we can now meet your printing requirements for hardcover and softcover books, brochures, and other bound products, with one of the best quality and price ratios available.

UK printhouses typically offer printing and binding costs that are between 50% to 150% higher than ours.

We are able to match them for quality, offering all the services of a fully modernised printing company, but at a fraction of their costs.

Your completed book, printed and bound by us, will not only be a bestseller, it will be a cost-effective bestseller. Your company's bound annual report will deliver all the facts and figures without falling apart after ten minutes of use.

Don't believe the claims? Give us a try. You won't be sorry. Visit the Kessler Associates Printhouse web site and request a price quote today.

Using blogs in your web site

2010-02-10T11:54:00.002Z

Blogs, or 'web logs', have become a major tool for internet users. Ideal for people with little or no technical background, their use can range from anything between a personal diary to a corporate discussion board. Due to their flexibility, bogs can also be used in imaginative ways.

Recently, Kessler Associates was asked to recreate a lost web site for Whitstable Town Junior Football Club in East Kent. One of the stipulations was that there should be some method by which the managers of each of the junior teams could report on games, add photos, football tables, and the latest news.

After a little head-scratching about how to achieve this with limited means, it was decided to incorporate blogs into the site. Each team would have its own blog which would be embedded into the web site design in such a way that anyone visiting the site wouldn't even know that they were reading a blog when they reached the team news.

To that end, a lot of the standard blog formatting was removed to leave a plain white page which still contained links to older posts, and allowed text and photos to be posted by administrators (the team managers), but did not show comments, sidebar links, or any of the embedded extras that are usually associated with blogs.

The final result can be seen on the Whitstable Town Junior Football Club's web site, which can be reached via the Kessler Associates web samples page.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Flash Video Player

2009-05-18T13:22:00.004Z

Delivering online video content through a Flash video player has rapidly become the most popular method of sharing video via the internet. You can see just how convenient it is by playing the sample video on our web site (a screenshot of the player is shown below for reference)

View sample Flash video player here.

Flash video files allow you to easily upload your video content so that visitors to your web site are quickly able to play it. As most browsers already have the Adobe Flash Player add-on installed, there is nothing standing between you and having great video content ready for your visitors to watch.

Kessler Associates can meet your Flash video requirements by offering you a range of options and features. We can also supply you with one of three levels of video or audio player to meet your needs. The basic version retains all the features shown on the sample page, but the playback area can be resized; minor customisation can include changes to the graphics including control panel buttons; major customisation involves any other alterations or new work to give you the video player you need to be able to deliver your Flash content online.

If you want something branded that matches your in-house style, and you don't want other propriety logos splashed all over your video content, then it makes sense to have something that is tailored to your exact needs. Why not contact us at Kessler Associates for more details and to discuss your requirements.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Excel takes the Strain

2008-10-21T09:39:00.010Z

Most businesses use Excel for creating their spreadsheets. It is a highly useful tool for calculating long trains of figures and providing you with detailed totals at the end.

However, there's a lot more to it than that. Given a properly laid-out workbook, small businesses and sole traders can run their entire accounts in Excel, construction firms can run highly detailed project fabric projections, and a vast array of facts and figures can be stored in such a way that makes the data easy to read and output to a printer.

Add to that some intelligent styling and layout direction, and you'll have an Excel workbook that can really do the job it is supposed to do, instead of losing your figures in something that's been hastily set-up and poorly planned.

Complex formulae can handle figures based on their condition so that, for instance, if Circumstances A are met (a cost raised on a Tuesday), a figure is added to Total X, whereas is Circumstances B are met (a cost raised on a Thursday), a figure is added to Total Y. VAT figures can be deducted from totals, or added to them, and can easily be amended from one location.

Programming functions can be added to your workbook to automate complex functions, insert new rows in a table, sort data, print it and even direct it to a printer tray of your choice. You could have a dialogue box that allows you to hide selected worksheets in your Excel workbook so that outside contractors only see what you want them to see - and what's more, they can only edit figures that you want them to edit. Summary sheets can handle your data entries in various ways, giving you a multilayered set of figures to work with for your projections or project calculations.

The possibilities are endless, so let us know what you need and we can show you how to do it. More detailed information is available via PDFs from the Excel spreadsheets page on the web site.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

PowerPoint 16:9

2008-05-12T13:09:00.008Z

Recently, we were asked by a client to produce a widescreen version of a PowerPoint template.

Many PowerPoint users may not be aware that a standard-format PowerPoint slide is set to the computer equivalent of a television's 4:3 ratio format (1.33 times as wide as it is tall - usually called 4:3 because its width is 4/3 of its height), meaning the usual, now slightly old-fashioned picture which would fill the screen from top to bottom, leaving no black borders.

Modern tv programmes are made for a widescreen display which is 16:9 (although other formats are available these are usually reserved for feature films). This normally means having a black border at the top and bottom of the screen.

The same is true of PowerPoint. Standard presentations may not be enough when PowerPoint presentations can easily be displayed on televisions and monitors these days, so in many cases only a 16:9 ratio presentation will do.

If you have existing PowerPoint presentations, you will first have to make sure they fit the standard 4:3 ratio which is now regularly required for standard display.

Then you will need a widescreen version of your presentation, not to mention having all the content repositioned, because PowerPoint won't do that automatically for you. Some graphics may have to be re-created or edited to allow them to fit or display properly, so it's best to get help.

Luckily for you, Kessler Associates can provide a complete design service for your PowerPoint templates, making sure the product will reflect your company image in the best possible way.

More detailed information is available via PDFs from the web site.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

PowerPoint Templates

2007-07-17T16:45:00.005Z

Microsoft's PowerPoint program can sometimes make it difficult to get precisely what you want from it when you are counting on it for your all-important presentation, or for when you are up against the clock to produce something for the office.

Instead of fighting it all the way, why not have PowerPoint templates created for you with your style settings already in place. Then you can do your own creating knowing that all the key elements are already in place. After that, PowerPoint becomes your obedient servant.

PowerPoint templates can incorporate your own range of graphics, colour schemes, and fonts, with your company styling applied throughout. They can also be supplied with custom-built toolbars to contain your very own option buttons for whatever you need.

New presentations created from the templates can start with an introductory title slide. All other slides will carry standardised formatting which is laid out at design time, but you can always have option buttons which drop in specialised slides, such as chapter headers.

Company layouts maintained throughout
Designed to match in-house presentation styles
Can insert logos, picture and tables
Standardised "new slide" layouts for every new page
Embed TrueType fonts in presentations
Different first slide "introduction" layout
Stock slides added at design time to guide users
Package provided as self-installing program

Kessler Associates can also provide a complete design service for your PowerPoint Templates, making sure the product will reflect your company image in the best possible way.

More detailed information is available in the PDFs which are available from the company web site.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Choosing a Web Designer

2007-02-21T15:45:00.002Z

When you choose a web designer, there are many things that you need to be aware of and that need to be taken into consideration before you make a decision.

To some extent, the ability to work successfully with your web designer is sometimes as important as their actual skill in being able to deliver the project.

A web designer who is skilled in what they do but is a pain to deal with can make the whole process frustrating and not worth the money being spent, especially if you have an emotional attachment to the project (which you should have, being the one supplying the money and motivation).

That relationship can be worth a large proportion of the contract.

What are the ongoing costs?
All web sites have ongoing costs. Web hosting, domain names and updates are the main three. Make sure you know the total cost of your investment. Some companies offer lower up-front costs to lock you into higher ongoing costs that end up costing you more.

How easy is it to incorporate your branding?
Some template sites are hard to blend a logo or colours into, so be wary of template-driven web site companies: some of these people are skilled enough only to change the text on a template. However, a good designer will design your site from the ground up, incorporating all of you design elements into their design. These companies offer the most flexibility.

What are the costs for making changes later on?
Updates and maintenance on your site is something that will eventually happen. Even if you don't change the content frequently, you will eventually change some content and so you need to know what it will cost to have that done for you over a year.

Hidden costs
Make sure common items (like search engine submissions and monthly keyword ranking reports) are either not included or are an extra cost. Some key items can be omitted to keep the price down. Make sure you don't get sold short. An important one is whether the web designer is doing the job part time. Are your web designers doing this as a full time job? Some designers are working during the day and then web designing at night. A lot of designers started out this way, but it can cause issues when you need something done and they don't do the job from nine to five.

If all these things check out then you have found someone who you can work with and who can provide you with a service that will get you your desired result.

Kessler Associates always design web sites from the ground up, with a layout and colour scheme created to specifically suit your needs. We are here during normal office hours to create and upload your site, find web space for you, and maintain your site as often as you need. Service costs are at a flat hourly rate, so you won't need to pay out for annual maintenance contracts, and if you allow us to handle your entire web site needs then you will be classed as a dedicated client and will be discounted 20% on all costs where applicable.

Remember, choose a designer with the right skills, but also one you believe you can work with on an ongoing basis. Build a working relationship that will benefit you both and your web project will benefit as well.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Edited in part from Entireweb Newsletter.

Budget Word Templates

2006-11-13T14:05:00.001Z

Every company produces documents of some sort, whether they are letters, faxes, memos, reports, or any other variation or combination of these.

Not quite so many companies have the time or even the computer knowledge to be able to set up templates, so they create documents in an ad hoc fashion, with varying degrees of consistency.

Such hit-and-miss documents rarely represent companies in the best possible light.

Document templates created for you by Kessler Associates save you the time taken up by having to set out all those little details that just have to be added to your office documents: from your company logo and office contact details to company registration and VAT details.

With a template, you only have to open up a new file from the custom toolbar (pictured, below) and fill in the blanks to be able to create your document (these blanks are usually presented in the form of text fields which you can overtype). Everything else is done for you at the design stage, saving you and your company a great deal of time.

This makes them ideal for any smaller company or sole-trader.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Keywords for your Web Site

2006-09-04T14:02:00.001Z

Correctly choosing the keywords on which your web site wishes to compete is the single most important aspect of a search engine optimisation campaign. We at Kessler Associates know that proper keyword selection can provide your business with an extremely solid foundation upon which to build.

However, the opposite can be said for web sites that make mistakes at this point. If your web site dives straight into a competitive keyword selection there is a good chance that it will drown in the oblivion of search engine results. Choosing keywords for your web site requires a fine balance of research and modesty.

Be Specific
If there is a particular item or product range that your company sells then make sure your keyword selection reflects this. Being vague results in higher levels of competition. If your web site sells golf clubs then optimise your pages to match what kind of golf clubs you are offering. Do they have graphite shafts? Do you sell a left-handed selection? What kind of brand are they?

Regionalise your selection if appropriate
Focusing on a regionalised market will result in a much more targeted market and the competition will also lower significantly. If you only sell your products and services within Ireland make sure you contain specific phrases (eg. Ireland, Irish, Dublin, etc.) within your Title, body and anchor text.

Domain Name Selection
For many new (and existing companies) the ideal web site name might already be taken. Or, for branding purposes, the choice of a keyword-rich domain name may not be applicable. This shouldn't be a major concern to companies as the weight search engines give to the URL of a web site is of limited importance when it comes to ranking well within the results pages. However, if your web site contains keywords on which your company wishes to compete then you should exploit this when choosing your inbound linking text (aka anchor text).

Anchor Text
Inbound links from web sites can provide your site with a twofold benefit. The first (and obvious) is that these links can help your company by sending potential customers to your web site. The second benefit is that Google and the other major search engines will see these links as votes of confidence, therefore giving your web site a boost in its rankings. When developing inbound links it is important to take advantage of keywords that your site might be targeting.

For example, a web site such as www.betterwebsitez.com might contain a number of articles that can help web masters and companies promote their web sites. With this in mind, a link that contains the anchor text Website Promotion Articles will help both visitors and search engines to understand what this web site is all about. By developing links with keyword-rich anchor text, your web site can rank higher in the search engine results for the terms on which you are competing.

Landing Pages
When choosing keywords which you feel are suitable to target your desired market you may end up with a list the length of your arm. If you create a web site with a logical structure containing a number of pages that deal with the range or products your company offers you will be able to professionally and effectively optimise your entire site for all of your selected keywords.

For example, if your company sells office supplies and office stationary (both extremely competitive keyword phrases) you could still drive a large amount of traffic to landing pages that sell 'Executive Leather Chairs' and 'Printer Ribbons'. This is only an example, creating and optimising landing pages is a technique that all web sites could and should do regardless of what they are offering.

Remember, your optimisation efforts should never stop after your home page is completed. Your entire site should be professionally optimised for maximum results.

This is what Kessler Associates will help you with, managing the entire process from beginning to end and making sure your web site is continually monitored to ensure maximum performance in search engine results. Optimising your web site is an ongoing process that never ends, so it pays to do it properly from the start.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Reproduced from Entireweb Newsletter. About the Author: Barry Fenning is the owner of Irish Website Promotion, a web site that is aimed at people new to the area of search engine optimisation and online marketing. The articles available on the web site are suitable for people that want to learn how to conduct effective and professional SEO campaigns without having to outsource. There are also a number of more "advanced" articles suitable for experienced web masters.

Insert Scanned Signature

2006-07-07T12:35:00.002Z

As you will know from previous articles, Word documents and templates can have almost any degree of customisation added to them.

One perennial favourite add-on is the scanned signature module. When activated, this will add your scanned signature to all outgoing documents.

If you have scanned your signature you will have saved it as an image file, hopefully in one of the popular formats. The file browser in this simple utility allows you to select the saved image file from your hard drive and use it in any of the documents pre-specified by you. These are usually letters and faxes, but can be anything else as well. You simple need to let Kessler Associates know where you want to use your scanned signature when they construct or upgrade your template set for you.

This utility is especially useful with documents which will never be printed, but are delivered to their recipients electronically. Emailing Word documents as PDF files is becoming increasingly popular, saving postage costs and delays (or avoiding letters going missing in the post), as well as doing a little good for the environment.

This simple utility for Word templates makes using your scanned signature so easy.

The useful utility can be added to existing template sets or written into any brand new set with very little effort, and can be working for you as soon as your new templates are ready.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Backup Your Data

2006-05-30T14:43:00.001Z

Kessler Associates produces Word document templates for all requirements and cost-levels. With the more advanced, wizard-level templates, the facility to save a considerable amount of data is present. This usually means that users are able to save and easily re-use recipient addresses, office addresses, signoff details, and so on.

Whatever type of data being saved, this information is usually written to DAT files on each computer. These are almost always forgotten when users are backing up their files, potentially leaving years' worth of valuable collected data at risk of being lost.

Now, you can add the facility for users to backup their saved data files to a floppy disc, memory stick, or any other available drive.

This simple utility for Word templates makes backing up so easy.

The installation path in which the DAT files are stored will be read automatically, so all you have to do is browse for a location to which to save them, and click the Backup button to start the process. It will be completed in just a few seconds, with your data now safe and securely backed up.

Next time you run the process, the last save path will be remembered.

This handy utility can be added to existing template sets or written into any brand new set with very little effort, and can be working for you as soon as your new templates are ready.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Web Site Construction

2006-05-05T10:27:00.005Z

Building dedicated HTML web sites for small to medium companies is a speciality of Kessler Associates.

Using your specifications as a starting point, clean, efficient, CSS-formatted web sites can be constructed which are easy to access and understand, don't rely on flashy graphics or additional software to run, and are easy to update. Of course, if flashy graphics are a specific requirement, they can be added.

Web sites begin at a basic four pages which usually consist of a home page, contact details, and service specifications. But to save you from as much stress as possible, Kessler Associates can also secure domain names and web space for you, handling all contact with the actual host company. This takes all the hard work of setting up the site off your hands, and delivers cost reductions on its maintenance.

Here are just a handful of the features that Kessler Associates can offer:

Fast-loading high-quality pages
Cross-browser compatibility (where possible)
Choose any level of on-screen complexity
Submission to all major search engines
Unspammable contact email addresses
Macromedia Flash animations can be added
Search engine installation and maintenance
Contact forms added
Domain names and web space secured for you

Why not read the web site page. More detailed information is also available in the PDFs which are available from the company web site.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Word Templates

2006-04-13T11:20:00.004Z

For years frustrated users have struggled with MS Word. It's not so bad when you are creating a simple document, but as soon as you try to make anything that is slightly more complicated, Word just seems to develop a mind of its own.

If you are fed up with documents in MS Word that just won't appear as your company planned them to, then perhaps you don't know that it is possible to have a set of customised Word document templates built for you?

Word templates come in many shapes and forms, from basic click-and-type letter layouts to high-level, wizard-driven, automated document creation.

Data - such as recipient addresses - can be saved and re-used, and anything, from database link-ups, saved default settings, or logo insertion, can be added, creating a fully customisable package to suit your needs.

Here are just a handful of the features that customised Word templates contain:

Company layouts maintained throughout
Designed to match any number of in-house styles
Can insert logos, pictures and tables
Wizard-based dialogues for document creation
Apply company document styles from drop-down list
Near-limitless level of wizard customisation
Save any amount of information for later access
Package provided as self-installing program

Now, Kessler Associates can build high quality Word templates to your specifications and requirements.

This small but flourishing software house can also provide a complete design service for your templates, making sure the product will reflect your company image in the best possible way. More detailed information is available in the PDFs which are available from the company web site.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.

Customise Your PowerPoint

2006-03-22T12:54:00.001Z

PowerPoint is an awkward beast to tame. That is why it's a good idea to get custom-made templates created for your business.

PowerPoint templates by Kessler Associates are usually supplied with around four slides, pre-set to your layout requirements. These can be overwritten or copied as style guides when creating a new presentation, or deleted where they are not needed.

Guidance can be supplied to ensure users enter text into the correct slide fields, and alter existing picture or strapline slots to ensure your formatting is maintained. All new presentations can start with a title slide, acting as a cover sheet or introduction. All remaining and newly inserted slides will carry standardised formatting, which is laid out at design time.

A custom toolbar can be added which can contain buttons for inserting pre-set slides such as chapter headings. Further options such as switching to your Word templates, and pre-set formatting options can also be included here.

All templates can be supplied as part of a self-extracting executable program. This ensures proper installation on any PC. Additional items, such as custom fonts, images, or user guides, can be installed at the same time.

Kessler Associates can also provide a complete design service for your PowerPoint Templates, making sure the product will reflect your company image in the best possible way.

Whatever your needs, we have the solution.