Microsoft PowerPoint Class in Boston on August 28, 2019 PowerPoint Design Training

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 powerful PowerPoint slide 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 for Designing PowerPoint Content

• Working in outline mode to fine-tune text
• Rehearsing presentations
• Converting to navigation mode

Critical basics of PowerPoint for Design

• 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

Using Outline mode when designing in PowerPoint

• Working in outline mode to fine-tune your text
• Rehearsing your presentation
• Converting to navigation mode

Essential principles of Presentation design

• Understanding space and proportion in slide design
• Mathematical tricks for designing PowerPoint slides
• Tips to building better visual design
• Understanding and using asymmetric layouts in PowerPoint
• Utilizing the grid, and understanding its importance in design

Typography for PowerPoint slide design

• Understandning 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

• Establishing text styles for your PowerPoint Design
• Establishing guides
• Inserting text and image placeholders
• Understanding underlying slide structure
• Using master slide layouts
• Making changes to your master
• Making changes to multiple slides
• Changing background colors

Using images in PowerPoint slide designs

• Finding your presentation size for images
• Cropping images in PowerPoint
• Enhancing images used in slide designs
• Removing backgrounds from images
• Rotating and sizing images within PowerPoint
• Preferences and settings that effect imagery
• Creating animations
• Resources for locating high quality images

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

Creating and editing tables in PowerPoint

• Editing the number of rows and columns
• Changing text format
• Changing colors and borders in cells
• Using table styles for consist design within PowerPoint

Adding video and audio to PowerPoint presentations

• Getting 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