Desktop Publishing for Proposal Professionals

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

In addition to proposal desktop publishing basics and essential MS Word skills, this course addresses document stabilization when multiple authors contribute using different formatting styles, and teaches design principles to make your proposals more attractive.

This self-paced course provides downloadable practice files as you work through the process of building a proposal volume. It includes interactive lessons, guided examples, and exercises to help you design and assemble professional proposal documents that help your company win.

The experts who created our business development, capture, and proposal training are highly experienced, currently practicing proposal professionals whose years of successful experience in Government acquisition and training allow them to offer valuable insights. Through the course materials, they share real-world examples, best practices, and proven techniques based on current industry realities. Check our instructors’ bios on our About page.

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Desktop Publishing for Proposal Professionals

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Course Curriculum

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.

Highlights

Module 1: Introduction to Government Proposal Desktop Publishing

Introduction and learning objectives
Familiarization with what is possible in desktop publishing
Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts
Moving through the document, split screen, and three ways to accomplish the same function
Toolbars and Rulers
Moving the Quick Access Toolbar
Populating Quick Access Toolbar with your favorite tools

Module 2: Preparing for Graphics Development

Choosing a color palette
Comprehension and incorporation of the Solicitation Requirements
Styles
– What is Normal
– How does Normal affect styles
– Creating and editing styles
– Import styles into another or a new document
– Displaying styles so other users can apply them
– Cleaning up styles
Column Breaks
Page Breaks
Section Breaks

Module 3: Editing the Document

Table of Contents (TOC)—Part 1
– Create your own based on your styles
Cut, Copy, Paste—Paintbrush
– Using the Clipboard icon
– Inserting text from another document
– Inserting from Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe products
Tables
– Sorting in a table
– Formatting a table with styles
Create a table style
Preparing your graphics for insertion and inserting them into the document
Keeping graphics from “jumping”
Table of Contents (TOC)—Part 2
– Inserting “context specific” TOCs in one document
– Creating other lists: List of Figures, Compliance Matrix, Acronym List, and Index

Module 4: Publishing and Distribution Tips

Printing and binding
– White Glove page check
– Keeping the exact copy or proof copy for your company (CYA)
– Preparing box label and receipt
– Handling the receipt after the signature, attaching it to and archiving the Proof Copy, scanning, and making it a part of the electronic files
Creating PDF for uploading
Checking each page for legibility, errors, misprints, or degradation of graphics
CD, thumb drive or other electronic submissions files checks
Distribution List
– Create file list all parties print and keep with Proof Copy
– Copying of all electronic files onto storage media, including the “archive” or “old” versions, and the “raw” graphics

Module 5: Summary and Recap

Summary and recap
Additional resources