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Certificate of Completion
PowerPoint Design Course in Boston on May 28, 2025
PowerPoint Design course
$495.00
This PowerPoint Design class teaches participants how to improve the design of PowerPoint presentations. Course participants learn the process and skills necessary to build powerful and well-organized content for presentations. Attendees discover how to take advantage of visual design principles for creating professional-looking presentations. This interactive and dynamic class offers you the opportunity to work on your own project and apply PowerPoint design principles immediately to your work. In addition to information and visual design, course participants also discover how to maximize their efficiency in PowerPoint software to complete presentations more easily.
PowerPoint Design course topics
Understanding the creative thinking process for PowerPoint slide design
- Starting your project before using PowerPoint
- Organizing your thoughts with a mind map
- Establishing your goal: what will the deck be great at?
- Designing a powerful PowerPoint deck
- Mapping the flow of your deck
- Using creative thinking skills to build content.
- Verifying your story
Building information architecture for your PowerPoint design
- Information Hierarchy: Focusing on the key message
- Determine critical content
- Structure and edit content using easy, low-tech options
- Testing the structure of your PowerPoint content and design
Learning the PowerPoint workspace for design
- Taking advantage of alternate views
- Locating features you need for PowerPoint design
Using outline mode to build your story
- Working in outline mode to fine-tune text
- Rehearsing presentations
- Converting to navigation mode
Critical Powerpoint features
- Cloning slides and content
- Using rulers and positioning
- Using guides
- Changing the arrangement of your elements
- Playing a PowerPoint deck
- Naming and saving your deck
- Changing PowerPoint slide sizes
- Design solutions for text running long
Essential principles of Presentation design
- Understanding space and proportion in slide design
- Mathematical tricks for designing PowerPoint slides
- Tips for building better visual design
- Understanding and using asymmetric layouts in PowerPoint
- Utilizing the grid and understanding its importance in a design
Typography for PowerPoint slide design
- Understanding type hierarchy
- Adjusting font styles and sizes
- Updating styles within a PowerPoint Design
- Using master slides to change all text
- Putting text on top of images and videos
Taking advantage of master slides when designing in PowerPoint
- Building and editing layouts
- Establishing text styles for your PowerPoint deck
- Inserting text and image placeholders
- Understanding the underlying slide structure
- Determining and saving branded colors in your theme
- Sharing your PowerPoint theme with others
Using images in PowerPoint slide designs
- Cropping images in PowerPoint
- Enhancing images used in slide designs
- Removing backgrounds from images
- Rotating and sizing images within PowerPoint
- Preferences and settings that affect imagery
- Creating animations
- Resources for locating high-quality images
Animations, build-ins, actions, and build-outs
- Effectively using animation and transitions in PowerPoint
- Using the Animation pane
- Changing order and timing transitions
Creating, editing, and designing PowerPoint charts and graphs
- PowerPoint Data visualization options
- Creating a standard chart
- Editing chart data
- Changing the Chart (colors, fonts, and more)
- Changing the value slide’s style
- Creating and editing Interactive charts
- Saving your chart style for future use
Creating and editing tables in PowerPoint
- Building a readable table
- Changing text format and cell styles
- Changing colors and borders in cells
- Using table styles for consistent design within PowerPoint
Adding video and audio to PowerPoint presentations
- Inserting video into your presentation
- Accepted formats for interactive content
- Overlaying text on your video
- Adding audio to a slide
- Looping
Importing and exporting a PowerPoint deck
- Saving your file
- Saving your PowerPoint deck as a PDF
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your PowerPoint Design questions.
Why PowerPoint Design classes at AGI are the best option for you
- Hands-on learning: Learn PowerPoint Design quickly with our proven teaching methods.
- Exceptional curriculum: AGI has delivered PowerPoint Design training to thousands over 25 years.
- Expert instructors: Our instructors are PowerPoint Design experts and skilled educators.
- Small class sizes: Receive personalized attention with 10 or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for Free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the PowerPoint Design class at no cost.