Desktop Publishing for Proposal Professionals

This workshop teaches valuable skills in designing, laying out, and publishing proposals—presenting your company’s offer in the most professional light to the proposal evaluators. The course begins with a foundation in the tools and features MS Word offers to the desktop publisher, and shortcuts to increase speed and efficiency. The course advances into the selection of color palette and styles, tables of contents, headers and footers, and elements of design to ensure your document is attractive. It culminates in teaching how to publish the document and prepare it for delivery.

This course goes beyond the basics, addressing the core challenges of maintaining stabilization within documents while multiple authors contribute to proposal sections using different formatting styles.

This workshop will provide practice files as we work our way through the building of a proposal volume. This workshop is 30 percent lecture, 60 percent exercises, and 10 percent discussion.It will learn how to design and assemble proposal documents to help your company win

Learning objectives: The participants will learn and practice skills in:

• Applying MS Word shortcuts to optimize and accelerate the desktop publishing process.
• Create a color palette and design a compliant layout utilizing logos and other graphic media reinforcing your company’s brand.
• Developing a proposal template.
• Setting up and creating styles that are easy for contributors to apply.
• Cleaning up the document to ensure multiple authors’ styles do not destabilize the document.
• Understanding cut, copy, past, and paintbrush options efficiently.
• Using the Section and Page Break features and understanding how they affect headers, footers, and outlining features.
• Working with tables to convey information efficiently.
• Inserting material from MS Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, and other types of files.
• Establishing an automated and hyper-linked Table of Contents (TOC) anywhere in the document, including several TOCs in the same document.
• Creating other lists such as List of Figures, Compliance Matrix, Acronym List, and Index
• Paginating the main page and sub-pages.
• Preparing the document for submission.

For further information including course materials, curriculum, instructors, and more visit our event website to the right

-- Registration Notes:
Register through our Event Website to the right.
For team discounts please change quantity of attendees at the checkout and click "Recalculate" to get the discount. Register 3 weeks before class date and receive $100 off per attendee as an EARLYBIRD discount!

--Cancellation Notes:
Cancellation notification must be received 10 business days prior to the training date. Upon notification, your registration fee will be refunded less a $100 non-refundable processing fee. Any cancellations beyond the 10 business days are non-refundable, but the course fee can be applied towards another training course, webinar, or an OST Global Solutions training product. No refunds will be made for the cancellation of a rescheduled course. Attendee substitutions may be made at any time. Payment must be received prior to the course date. No-shows are liable for the full class fee.

“OST Global Solutions classes and webinars hit the mark every time. The curriculum is focused on the needs of business development professionals in a hyper-competitive marketplace. They not only identify the most common pitfalls, but also demonstrate in detail just how to write winning proposal sections.”

Ciro Pinto-Coelho Director, Strategy&BD, Raytheon Company

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P.S. When getting directions, if using a GPS the city will be "Derwood" instead of Rockville