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SLIDE HACKS - Better PowerPoint presentations
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(33 ratings)
127 students
Created byIgor Nisenboim
Last updated 11/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Basic principles of slide design: slide format, text bullets and graphics
  • Visual aids such as icons, illustrations and maps that help you attract attention of your audience
  • Simple rules that help you pick correct colours, fonts and graphical elements
  • PowerPoint functions that help you save time and automate your work

Course content

1 section20 lectures2h 5m total length
  • Introduction4:00
  • Slide Aspect Ratio - 16:9 vs 4:36:35
  • Aligning and distribution - Making your slides look neat6:11
  • Icons - How to download icons and use them for slide design7:04
  • Important information - How to highlight key information5:39
  • Slide composition - How to arrange information on a limited space3:33
  • Inserting images into shapes - Yep, rectangles are boring5:38
  • PNG format for images - Fast way to make an image look good on any slide4:49
  • Fullscreen images - Simple way to design important slides5:27
  • Mockups - How to present websites and applications4:59
  • Maps - How to create infographics using maps8:22
  • PDF Animation - Yes, it's possible!6:26
  • Timelines - Cool trick that will be appreciated by any project manager11:22
  • Process explanation - Helps when you need to demonstrate processes5:35
  • Video - Inserting and editing videos on PowerPoint slides4:14
  • Hyperlinks - Let you audience interact with your slides6:42
  • Interactive timers - Great instrument for lectures and brainstorming7:44
  • Slide navigation - Help your audience to stay focus during long presentations6:23
  • Demonstrating comparisons - Help your audience to make the right choice9:01
  • Proven algorithm for redesigning existing slides that look far from perfect5:49

Requirements

  • In order to complete this course you need a PC or Mac computer with PowerPoint installed.

Description

Most of the presentations look mediocre. Endless text bullets, weird templates and bad design solutions. Also, people spend endless hours trying to create a tiny pitch.


Things don't have to be this way.


This course is aimed at analysts, marketers, managers and education professionals, who wish to impress their audience with better presentations. You don't need any designer background to benefit from it.


All that's required: notebook with PowerPoint installed and your desire to shine at client meeting rooms and university audiences.


You will learn to:


  1. Turn text documents into attention dragging slides

  2. Select and download impressive icons and illustrations

  3. Spend less time thanks to useful PPT functions

  4. Redesign existing slides using modern design techniques

  5. Insert videos and timers into your slides

  6. Animate your slides and use country maps for better infographics


  7. Create complex A4 documents using PowerPoint

Every lesson includes video instructions which will help you master the skill step by step. We share many slide hacks that will make your work much easier: secret PowerPoint functions, resources for downloading icons, images and maps.

You will be impressed to see that you don’t need years of designer experience to create convincing slides. The ones that help you present pitches, reports and project plans.

Feel free to check our lesson previews.



Who this course is for:

  • This course has been created for managers, analysts, education professionals and students who wish to spend less time creating better presentations.