Use PowerPoint Like a Professional Designer

Create outstanding PowerPoint presentations to accelerate your career and achieve more in less time

4.52 (219 reviews)
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English
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Graphic Design
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3.5 hours
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Nov 2023
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$59.99
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What you will learn

Create modern slides and concept diagrams

Tackle tasks faster with shortcuts and VBA macros

Build professional PowerPoint templates from scratch

Communicate your information in the best manner

Learn the basics of XML to program the custom colour palettes in PowerPoint

Learn the secrets of designing beautiful colour palettes

Learn practical techniques for formatting photographs inside PowerPoint

Impress your audience by creating customized shapes, pictures and typography

Learn how to create video-like slide transitions

Bring your presentations to life

Downloadable exercise files and learning materials

All the techniques used by professional Presentation Designers in one place

Description

Hi, my name is Anna and I am dedicated to helping you create outstanding PowerPoint presentations and data visualizations to accelerate your career and achieve more in less time.

This course includes examples based on my professional experience as a Graphic & Web Designer. Many of the tips and tricks I share with you originate from the questions asked by my colleagues during the training sessions and team projects.

This course is divided into six parts:

  1. Getting Started:
    In this section I will teach you how to manage your PowerPoint working space by using the Quick Access Toolbar as well as VBA macros which I created specifically for this course. You will also learn how to become faster and more efficient in creating slides by using the keyboard shortcuts.

  2. Creating Professional Templates:
    In this section I will teach you step by step how to build a professional PowerPoint template and how to solve common problems related to the template creation process. This will help you to save tones of time when working on big projects and make your presentation-creating process very fast and smooth.

  3. Extra Skills for Template Makers:
    In this section you will learn how to extend the number of colour options in your PowerPoint palette and make them automatically appear every time you or your colleagues open the presentation. You will also learn about the function of XML in PowerPoint and how to manage this code properly. I will also show you how to create a beautiful colour palette from scratch and which online tools would make the whole process fast and easy.

  4. Managing Photographs in PowerPoint:
    In this section I will show you how to properly manage photographs inside PowerPoint. You will also learn how to remove background from images and how to fix common problems related to the photo editing process. Together we will create an employee profile as well as quote slide.

  5. Customizing Shapes, Pictures and Typography:
    In this section I will introduce you to the Merge Shapes command. We will use this knowledge to build a professional concept diagram and transform the ordinary graphical content into a remarkable product.

  6. Creating Impressive Animations:
    In this section you will learn how to use Side Zoom, Section Zoom as well as Morph tool to bring your slides to the next level and impress your audience.

Content

Introduction

Introduction

Getting Started

Introducing the Quick Access Toolbar
Importing the Quick Access Toolbar
VBA tools: Installation
VBA tools for working smarter and faster
The magic of three: Ctrl Shift Alt
20 best keyboard shortcuts (Part 1)
20 best keyboard shortcuts (Part 2)
20 best keyboard shortcuts (Part 3)
Conclusion and tips

Creating Professional Templates

Themes vs. Templates: Understanding the difference
Applying settings to a new blank file
Formatting the Slide Master
Naming the template and saving your progress
Formatting the Child Layouts
Conducting a testing phase
Collecting the template files

Extra Skills for Template Makers

Introduction to XML in PowerPoint
Programming the custom colour palette
Designing a nice colour palette

Managing Photographs in PowerPoint

Aligning and formatting: Creating an employee profile slide
Removing the background from an image: Theory and best practices
Removing the background from an image: Creating a quote slide

Customizing Shapes, Pictures and Typography

Introducing the Merge Shapes command
Designing the business concept diagram
Transforming pictures with the Merge Shapes command
Turning your static text into the lively object

Creating Impressive Animations

Slide Zoom tool: Bring your presentation to life
Section Zoom tool: Say no to the boring agenda slides
Introducing the Morph tool
Morph tool: Designing a professional timeline slide

Screenshots

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Reviews

Ariana
September 7, 2023
These were all the secrets I was looking for to level up my PowerPoint game! Very easy to follow and integrated the shortcuts in every situation.
Angela
August 20, 2023
Unable to utilize the macros that the course seems to be based around so a part of the content will be irrelevant to me.
Hariom
June 17, 2023
The course delivers on most aspects, however, they could mention substitute keyboard shortcuts for apple laptops.
Andreas
May 29, 2023
Would give 10 Stars if possible. Very professional and to the point. Please make follow-up course. Thanks for inspiring course and fantastic content.
Antonio
May 8, 2023
Bastante útil. Solo siento que le faltó extender un poco más en las animaciones para ver otras herramientas.
Uday
April 24, 2023
i am unable to apply these tools in ms powerpoint , Powerpoint is not allowing these tools to be imported , please help me
Steve
March 30, 2023
Fab course! Really enjoyed learning a few new tricks within PPT. Very clear instruction and excellent support materials provided too. Thank You.
Emmanuel
March 21, 2023
This was a great course. I know PowerPoint very well and have used it for years, but I learned several new shortcuts and ways to display content. This is a great course for any skill level!
Julia
March 12, 2023
I liked the course. It was interesting, I've learned some new things. The explanations are clear, you can follow the teacher (I had to pause the video all the time to do that) and learn effective ways to work. I had expected a deeper dive into XML and VBA tools. I should've guessed that it's impossible in such a short course:) Actually Anna just share some useful tools she made and explains how to use them. I'm glad I took this course, it definitely worth the money I paid for it.
Jose
March 9, 2023
It just keep getting better and more challenging. Anna is very professional and knows how to teach. She deserves more stars.
Doug
February 21, 2023
This is one of the best training courses I've taken on PowerPoint. The course provides several advanced actions I can immediately apply to my presentations to impress my audience. I recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn advanced PowerPoint design concepts.
Allison
February 16, 2023
I already knew most of these basic moves, but Anna puts them all together in a very sensible, organized and logical way.
Lindsey
January 27, 2023
I was working on a work computer and so I had no ability to add add-ons and macro's into my Power Point which made some of this section less useful to me
Atsushi
January 11, 2023
So many unknown functions! Great explanation to help you recall what you’ve learned in previous sessions too.
Carolina
December 30, 2022
This course allows you to learn shortcuts to Power Point as well as new features to enhance your presentations.

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