Do you already know the basics of PowerPoint and want to create high-impact, professional presentations?

During this advanced one-day training, you will learn how to design visually strong slides, work efficiently with Slide Masters, create interactive presentations and apply advanced formatting techniques.

This course focuses on both advanced technical skills and professional visual communication.

Duration

1 day.

Why follow this course

After this training, you will be able to:

• Create visually powerful and consistent slide designs
• Master Slide Master for full layout control
• Build interactive presentations with advanced navigation
• Apply professional design principles
• Use advanced animations effectively
• Work significantly faster in PowerPoint
• Create executive-level presentations

This course is hands-on, practical and focused on real business use cases.

Course outline

Advanced Design & Layout Control

Mastering the Slide Master

• Creating and modifying custom layouts
• Managing corporate branding (logos, colours, fonts)
• Creating reusable templates
• Controlling consistency across large presentations

Advanced Theme Customisation

• Custom colour palettes
• Custom fonts
• Design variants
• Saving and sharing templates

Professional Slide Design

Visual Communication Principles

• Slide hierarchy and structure
• Reducing text overload
• Using white space effectively
• Designing for readability
• Common presentation design mistakes

Advanced Formatting Techniques

• Working with advanced shapes
• Merging and combining shapes
• Using icons and visual elements
• Aligning and distributing objects precisely
• Creating custom graphics inside PowerPoint

Advanced Animations & Interactive Presentations

• Advanced use of the Animation Pane
• Trigger-based animations
• Morph transition
• Creating smooth visual storytelling
• Building non-linear presentations
• Advanced hyperlinks and action buttons

Working with Complex Content

• Advanced SmartArt editing
• Creating visually appealing tables
• Working with charts and modifying chart elements
• Embedding and managing multimedia
• Compressing media for optimal performance

Delivering Like a Professional

• Advanced Presenter View techniques
• Managing large presentations
• Keyboard shortcuts for presenters
• Creating custom slide shows for different audiences
• Exporting to video

Audience

This course is designed for professionals who:

• Already master the basic functionalities of PowerPoint
• Regularly create presentations for clients, management or stakeholders
• Want to improve visual quality and efficiency
• Aim to create impactful executive presentations

Suitable for consultants, sales professionals, managers, project leaders, trainers and marketing professionals.

Prerequisites

Participants should:

• Be comfortable with creating basic presentations
• Know how to insert text, images and basic animations
• Understand slide layouts and themes