Present Like a Pro: Excel Insights & PowerPoint Design

Structure your presentation with a clear flow and a proven storyline to engage audiences and boost outcomes. Treat your talk as a puzzle that shapes data into a picture.

Explore the helicopter view to present the big picture of your subject, focusing on the top aspects to prepare the platform and attract attention.

Identify core performance measures and monitoring at the heart of your presentation, then explain exact and detailed performance information, dive into specific areas, and derive findings to drive outcomes.

Master practical Excel formatting to prepare a dynamic dashboard for PowerPoint by styling headers, fonts, colors, alignment, borders, merging cells, and using format painter, plus converting percentages to numbers.

Apply data validation in Excel to ensure accurate data entry using drop-down lists sourced from a predefined range, preventing typos and invalid entries.

Learn to use conditional formatting to highlight duplicates, set value ranges, apply top ten items, above-average highlights, data bars, and color heat maps for clear data insights.

Use name manager to define students and year ranges, then build a dashboard with match and offset, plus data validation, to show the last three years for the selected year.

Master the offset formula to build a dynamic dashboard with data validation for year selection, reading and shifting student results across years, updating automatically as you change the year.

Apply the HLOOKUP and lookup functions to reflect year-specific values from a fixed reference table, and use absolute references, drag techniques, and formatting to build a responsive dashboard.

Selecting the theme sets professional colors and design across your slides, aligning corporate colors and logos, with options to customize backgrounds, save, and reuse themes in PowerPoint.

Learn how to structure a presentation by creating and renaming sections like introduction, body, analysis, and conclusion, assign slides to each section, and prepare the outline before beautifying the slides.

Master layout changes in PowerPoint by choosing from title slide, title and contents, or section header, then switch to a blank layout to insert new objects.

Learn how to download and activate a plug-in for PowerPoint and Excel, including a free academic subscription, trial setup, and using the new ribbon features demonstrated during setup.

Unleash powerful analysis tools to enhance PowerPoint and Excel charts by linking dashboards to graphs, customizing axes, labels, and grid lines, and adding growth and difference arrows for clearer insights.

Structure a business presentation in PowerPoint with five sections: title, welcoming and introduction, helicopter view of industries and competitors, factory performance, and conclusion with action plan.

Select themes and colors using the design ribbon, choosing from multiple designs for a beautiful or official look, and ensure the colors reflect the theme in the figures and charts.

Master the welcome and introduction of a business presentation by configuring a title slide with a logo, inserting word art, and building the intro and agenda slides with basic formatting.

Create a scalable PowerPoint workflow with a single master slide for a helicopter view of the market, then duplicate slides, adjust layouts, and place charts and text for clear presentations.

Develop a slide deck that compares competitors and the market, presenting total cars sold and revenues, spare parts categories, maintenance performance, and average pricing across cars, parts, and maintenance.

Visualize factory performance with sales units and revenue graphs, compare quarterly results, correlate quantities with revenues, and analyze production models and colors performance.

Craft a conclusion with recommendations and an action plan, detailing the department, actions, and time frames, then finalize the slide and convert to Microsoft Excel.

Understand the four Excel sheets—dashboard, summary, market data, and updates—and learn to format revenues, production counts, and competitors with US dollars, colors, and merged cells.

Group market data into totals like revenues and prices, and copy-link them to a dashboard. Use the summary file as dashboard source and apply serial numbers and a lookup function.

Learn to build dynamic Excel dashboards by using name manager to define quarters, apply match and offset formulas, and implement data validation for seamless quarter selection.

Create a dynamic excel dashboard with lookup formulas, fixed ranges, and linked data to compare market revenues, industry and company performance, then present charts in PowerPoint.

Create compelling think-cell graphs in PowerPoint by inserting column charts, waterfalls, donuts, pies, and scatter charts to visualize market performance, revenues, and vehicle sales.

Format and customize charts using analysis tools, colors, axes, legends, and display options to reveal trends, growth, and market shares.

Update the next quarter report by updating graphs with simple clicks in PowerPoint using Think Cell, automatically refreshing numbers, averages, and formatting for Q2 twenty one and Q3.