5 Latest Updates to the course content:
Mar 2024 - Might Alt, Shift & CTRL lecture improvements for MAC
Jan 2024 - Design Trends for 2024.
Sep 2023 - NEW SECTION - Accessibility.
Sep 2023 - Equations in PowerPoint for teaching
Jun 2023 - NEW
Do you want to SAVE TIME working in PowerPoint and be more efficient?
Do you struggle to create EYE-CATCHING, well-designed presentations?
Learn how to coordinate the DESIGN of your presentation with your speaking skills.
5 Latest Updates to the course content:
Mar 2024 - Might Alt, Shift & CTRL lecture improvements for MAC
Jan 2024 - Design Trends for 2024.
Sep 2023 - NEW SECTION - Accessibility.
Sep 2023 - Equations in PowerPoint for teaching
Jun 2023 - NEW
Do you want to SAVE TIME working in PowerPoint and be more efficient?
Do you struggle to create EYE-CATCHING, well-designed presentations?
Learn how to coordinate the DESIGN of your presentation with your speaking skills.
This course solves these problems and teaches you valuable Microsoft PowerPoint 365 tricks beyond that. You can use PowerPoint 2021, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016, or even 2010 or 2013, but newer versions are recommended.
The course is divided into four comprehensive chapters to make it easy to follow:
Each lesson is devoted to tackling one slide at a time. Follow along and create your masterpiece just like the one in the preview. PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint
With the help of this course, you will:
Increase your Microsoft PowerPoint knowledge
Improve your workflow and design skills
Learn to make custom layouts with placeholders on slide master slides
Get a new 14-slide PowerPoint 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021 / PowerPoint 365 presentation template to use
Reduce the time you need to complete a high-quality presentation
Learn PowerPoint 2013, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019 / 2021 (and the older versions) in one comprehensive course
Be able to brand and build templates for you, your company, or your clients.
The focus of this course is the design process and template creation. I will take you by the hand through the process of creating an outstanding presentation. We will design using PowerPoint and make infographics, world maps, graphs, charts, features, processes, introductions about our slides, and many things that are important to a well-prepared presentation. Whether you're looking to give a monthly report or impress prospective clients with your PowerPoint designs, learning the shortcuts and how to build unique themes is essential for crafting engaging and informative presentations.
I'm a very active instructor and respond to questions within 48 hours. All questions in my course are addressed and we work with students together to find solutions for their problems or at least the best possible ones out there :) Learn Microsoft PowerPoint with me and don't look back.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
Q: I'm a total beginner in PowerPoint, is this course right for me?
This course will teach you all the necessary basics and advanced tools, but it's not PowerPoint 101 for beginners. I mention basic tools and techniques, but I assume that you are computer savvy and know how to find your way around PowerPoint already. BUT. If you aren't then I have prepared a completely FREE PowerPoint basics course, which will equip you with the knowledge necessary to take this one. It's available on my profile under free courses. It's called PowerPoint for Beginners - Program & Animation Basics FREE
Q: I'm enrolled in your PowerPoint Masterclass - Presentation Design & Animation course. Should I get this one or is the other one enough? Which one is better?
Good Question. Both courses are top PowerPoint courses that teach you the knowledge and tools to create outstanding presentations, animations, and templates. They are just two different versions that use different slides and unique content respectively. The benefit of that is you can follow a different design path on each course. Students who finished the first master's course were asking me for more, and I'm happy to provide more if there is demand for it. If you already feel super comfortable with PowerPoint, one course is enough. But if you seek even more design ideas and slides, and if you like my content and the way I teach, you won't go wrong by taking both courses. Each of those two courses has several unique sections that allow them to expand their knowledge in their way.
Q: I've been using PowerPoint for 15+ years and think I know it already. Will I learn anything new?
I'm an experienced PowerPoint instructor with over 250 YouTube tutorials and more than 10 published PowerPoint courses and series. Over the past few years, I have learned from both beginner and advanced students which areas to address to best influence your workflow in a positive and impactful way. My courses help you to boost your efficiency, using shortcuts and on-trend designs to help you reach a modern, top-level standard of quality. If you need something that is not already in the course, you can always ask me about topics to add to courses that interest you.
Q: I'm still not sure if I want to invest in this course. I don't know if I want to focus on design or animation. Is there any fall-back plan?
Of course. First, you should watch the promo videos and watch the free preview lessons. They will give you a good understanding of the course content, pace, and what to expect from taking the course. Apart from that, you have Udemy’s 30-day Money Back Guarantee with no questions asked.
Stop waiting days to get your presentation back from a designer or from your co-workers. Instead, take your presentation into your own hands with this PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, and PowerPoint 365 course. Don't wait to sign up.
Let me show you an overview about microsoft powerpoint - master powerpoint presentation. I will touch on a few things specific to only this course and why you should stick with it to the end!
This is the presentation itself which You can download as a resource and use it as you would like. Please press on the download button to download the PPTX for PowerPoint 2013, powerpoint 2016 powerpoint 2019, powerpoint 365, presentation file itself.
This tutorial will teach you about one of the most essential shortcuts you come across in PowerPoint. The mighty ALT (option), CTRL (cmd) and SHIFT keys. Behold!
Let me explain you the Format Shape Tab. In the FORMAT tab you can find all tools that affect the selected object. All of the features can be also found on the top PowerPoint ribbon, but for any advanced usage we ought to use the Format Shape tab since it has all the tools listed in one place.
With this lecture I want to show you my most used and favorite powerpoint tool - namely the Format Painter and Animation Painter in powerpoint. These fellas allow you to copy any given design and replicate it onto another object. You can for example create a yellow transparent circle, and then copy that "style" onto another shape - awesome!
With this lecture, I would like to explain the differences and difficulties which we face when working with different PowerPoint versions. For 95% of the course you can use basically use any version and I make sure that most of the tutorials are understandable, for the rest you can just watch the lectures, learn new features and use them once you update your software in the future.
In this lecture I will explain you the usability of the Quick Access Toolbar. I will show you the power and quickness it can bring to your PowerPoint usage. For now the MAC version doesn't allow for the "ALT" shortcut to bring those fetures at the tip of your fingers but its still better to use them, even by clicking manually then always searching for the feature you want. I recommend using the QAT and adjust it to hold your favourite shortcuts.
This lecture will teach you something about shapes within PowerPoint. I will explain how you can edit and add points to vector objects. This is an advanced trick that will make you a better PowerPoint usage hopefully after you test it out!
After you have finished the presentation, what coloristic and overall feeling would you like to achieve...do you know that ? We can either define colors inside of powerpoint or search colors and pick them out right form around the web.
In this lesson I want to address the possible font choices you may make and if you do need to use custom fonts.
Fonts were always important in everything possible and the same goes for presetations in powerpint.
Try to minimize the amount of text on a presentation - always.
PowerPoint 2013 & PowerPoint 2016 has great options to use animations, graphics and other visual oriented items inside a powerpoint presentation so you don't always have to add much text. Additionally please take a brief journey through design trends with me for 2015,2016,2017 and so on :)
In this lesson I am going to explain how to smart use the presenter view to read text directly from Your screen, when the viewer sees only the slide on the presentation screen. Other usefull tips as making your presentation more engaging and interactive with a laser pointer or zooming-in and out of it are also explained. Valuable PowerPoint 2013 lessons!
With this lecture I would like to explain to you a couple of basic things about vector files. Depending on what PowerPoint version you use you can use vector files.
On Windows:
PowerPoint 2010,2013 and 2016 can use *.EMF vector files
PowerPoint 2019 (and Office 365 subscription) can use *.EMF and *.SVG vector files
On MAC:
PowerPoint 2011,2016 have big troubles importing vector files, only *.EMF files are possible to use
PowerPoint 2019 (and Office 365 subscription) can use *.SVG vector files
Here I am showcasing the differences and basic info about icons I've provided for this course.
With this introductionary lesson I would like to share a few thoughts I have about upcomming design trends and what they also mean for presentation design.
Please fill out this simple 3 questions quiz to ensure that you are ready to enter the design section!
Let me tell you how can you approach and properly take this course. I'll get you a bit fired up about the upcoming lessons! :) Before we get to the point and realize that we are PowerPoint ninjas and start to rock all presentations we need to get the right mindset!
I will show you how to use the resources, take the course and soak the knowledge in.
In this lecture, we will create the first slide of our How To Prepare awesome PowerPoint 2019 / 365 presentations course by following me as I create it along with You! The first slide will be the TITLE of the presentation. A title of a PowerPoint presentation can make or break it, like any introductory sequence would, no matter what type of content you are throwing at Your audience.
This is a bonus lecture which will showcase how to get consistent and perfect alignment every time you work in PowerPoint!
In this lesson of our Microsoft PowerPoint 2019/365 course, we will address the "About Us" page slide. We will use an image to prepare a good-looking animated slide and start to build our presentation.
In this lecture we prepare a slide showcasing 6 features of our brand, company, or simply any device, topic, or thing you might present about in a nice, colorful, and clean style. Microsoft Powerpoint 2019/365 allows us to create slides like that with help of nice icons.
In this lecture, we continue the design of our "6 features" slide. Since the design is complex the lecture is divided into two. In this one, we will add shape connectors and place them properly so everything will again look seamless and pixel-perfect.
This lecture is necessary to showcase the basics of animations and their features. One lecture is not enough to teach you animation in PowerPoint, but it can definitely give you some understanding about the feature within Microsoft PowerPoint.
Let us proceed to the animation process of our slides. After you learn the basics it's time to apply the knowledge directly on the slide. I will show you how to add a couple of simple animations in Microsoft PowerPoint to the objects you've created.
Slide 3 requires some interesting animation techniques like setting animations to on click, delaying them or adjusting their positing within the Animation Pane.
In this lesson we are creating a 4 steps slide usable in any type of presentation, whether it's about gaming, a business presentation, a corporate style presentation, or any other type of data that may be shown in a step-by-step process. This can be one of the most useful slides in a PowerPoint presentation because you can deliver any message in an ordered and well-laid-out manner.
A few PowerPoint 2019 / Microsoft PowerPoint 365 tricks allow us to create amazing timeline slides, which can present any data that is changing over time, days, months, years in an organized manner. This trend goes on in new presentations and it will most probably continue to be considered a masterpiece of usefulness in presentations. We all have to show and present timelined scenarios whether it's our career development on a resume or simply the path of development of a company.
Before we continue to the animation process of the timeline slide I need to explain a few things about Transitions and the transitions tab in Microsoft PowerPoint. They are different than animations but are connected since they both influence how long our slide is visible and how it appears in front of the viewer.
By smart usage of the PowerPoint animations, we can achieve an interesting effect as if the timeline slides would be connected together, really awesome knowledge to grab from here! PPT will be so happy we used that :)
Our Vector placing skills will finally come to use! With this lesson, I want to teach you how to use vector World Map images inside of PowerPoint to present global statistics or data in a very clear & transparent way. Normally people do not use vectors on PowerPoint presentations which is the one most important factor why YOU should! Be creative, innovative, and original.
The same things we used for a world map can be grabbed, swapped, and adjusted to showcase and visualize local or domestic data of any country we would like.
Again, before we continue the design process I'd like to show you something specific to PowerPoint, or rather the objects we edit within. You must know that various object types (like pictures, shapes, graphs, charts) can have their own Format options when utilizing the Format Shape panel.
PowerPoint is all about visualizing data. Charts and Graphs can be one of the most effective ways of presenting complex and important values in a clear and informative way. In this lesson, we will address how to utilize the basic graph options build into the program to prepare good-looking and easily readable information.
As one student already said, some of the most important and interesting lectures in this course is the one about PowerPoint graphs.
I want to show you how to manipulate the visible elements of a chart within PowerPoint. Not only can we limit the displayed data series, but also the chart itself can be re-designed a bit to look...better :)
By filtering we can adjust what is visible on a PowerPoint chart.
It's time to place our company on the map! Take a screenshot from Google Maps and use it as the basis of our contact page slide. Use powerpoints objects to distinguish certain elements of possibilities to contact you after the presentation.
It is fair, polite, nice, and overall a good practice to list all the resources, tools, and information you have gathered and properly credit the authors for their contribution and making the work you do easier. Powerpoint 2019 / Microsoft PowerPoint 365 slide including different sources we used to gather information for this presentation.
Everything good comes to an end...but this doesn't mean we can't end it with a bang! Even our PowerPoint presentation has to get some closure around and we want to address this topic right now. We earned it!
Sections is a feature that allows you to group slides into categories within your PowerPoint file.
PowerPoint allows adding music playing in the background of all your slides. Utilize the "Play in background" function to achieve this with one click.
If you aren't sure that the person or computer you are sending your presentation to has the font you've used, you might want to embed the font into the presentation file. Let me show you how to achieve this.
This lecture will consist of 3 tricks that allow applying global changes to your entire presentation with one click.
Here I will show you the most effective methods of reducing a presentation file size.
This powerpoint lecture will teach you how to export your presentation to pdf, jpg or any other file type available in microsoft PowerPoint.
With this lecture I'd like to introduce you to the Template creation in PowerPoint topic and briefly explain what will be covered. We will talk about:
Master Slides
Layouts
THMX Theme Files in PowerPoint
XML Color schemes
...and a couple or additional tips & tricks regarding those topics.
Here I will explain Master Slides to you and what their influence on a PowerPoint presentation is. We will use a couple of examples and create several master slides to learn what they can do in a powerpoint.
The next topic in line is PowerPoint layouts. Layouts are essential and very important when it comes to template creation in PowerPoint. If you want to save space and make blank presentation slides layouts are very useful in doing so. Here I will explain to you the technical details of a Layout, and later on you will learn how to create them.
This lecture will explain to you how XML files are created, where to copy them to have color schems in your powerpoint and what their actual usage is.
This tutorial will showcase you what THMX files are, what do they bring into a PowerPoint file and how they are used in real-life appliance. You must remember that clicking on a powerpoint design will override any current layouts you might have!
This lecture will explain how the colors, accent colors, color templates work within PowerPoint.
This lesson is there to show you the potential struggle you can have while working within both the Slide Master and the regular PowerPoint design window. A few issues , but also benefits for setting up templates better!
With this lesson I would finally want to go forward and show you a real life example of how new slides, templates, and custom shapes are added within our slide master view. This allows us to create advanced presentations and slides!
This will be the most mature lesson within this module. Learn how to effectively use the Slide Master and create two, advanced, very useful Layouts and slides for our example template.
Create custom bulletpoint lists in your powerpoint layouts
With this lecture I'd like to sum everything we were talking about up and once again remind you of all the differences and difficulties that you may face. I will briefly talk about master slides in powerpoint, layouts in powerpoint, powerpoint color schemes and powerpoint themes (THMX files).
Introduction to the section about working with clients.
This lecture will showcase how you can take this part of the course and emulate the steps I've taken to create the slides with me. I will open PowerPoint and show you a couple ways of working alongside my designs.
At first I want to talk about the font we use here and using the Picture Layout funciton in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Here we create the first, introduction slide into our presentation. It should capture and convey the color scheme of our client and the general shape of the presentation.
Slide number #2 of the working with clients section will be about listing out the key products our client wants to showcase.
We continue the design process of Slide #2 using Microsoft PowerPoint 2019.
Slide number 3 is an infographic where we showcase our product launches for upcoming years.
This lecture will show you a couple of interesting shortcuts to use while creating PowerPoint presentations.
Charts are essential to presenting any data and this slide will be no different. Let's prepare our first chart.
We continue our chart design with elements that will be used as informational blocks.
We need to expand our chart design onto the next slide to show more insight. Here is another way of preparing such a slide.
We will round the presentation up with a closing / contact us page in PowerPoint.
In this part of the course, we start the animation. At first, let us group items that will be animated together...or which we expect to be animated together.
Animating the first slide will be simple, we will use text animators to make something out of nothing :)
The animation Pane is one of the most important tools that guide us through the animations we've already set.
Animating our Key Products slide will be simple because we have clear groups that we can animate. We can decide on the fly if we want to animate text separately or together with its backgorund.
On the infographic slide, we will not only use a fly-in animation but also adjust the motion path of the animaiton by adding some smooth start and smooth end to it.
Animating charts is always difficult since we can't animate separate elements, but what we can do is animate all additional objects we've set up around the slide!
Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 (and of course Microsoft PowerPoint 365) introduced the morph feature that can be used to zoom into parts of your slides if you make sure that the same objects are showcased.
This lecture shows how to use the chart animation features to animate categories or series separately within PowerPoint charts.
The end of our presentation needs to be animated as well, let us animate the contact us page!
It is important to understand what needs to be shared in a presentation that is printed out vs a presentation that is being presented live. there is a chance both situation occur regularly in your daily work, so be prepared for both :)
Even tho we can't properly animate charts in PowerPoint, we can add additional elements that will help and amplify our message, especially when it comes to presenting data stacks like that!
Within this lecture I explain the Pen Tool in a little more detail.
Cameo is a new feature that allows you to add a Live Feed camera into your PowerPoint presentation.
In this lecture, I will explain speaker notes to you and how to utilize them during your presentation.
I will showcase to you how to share powerpoint presentations via one drive and make it possible to edit them with the PPT for web application.
This is an introduction to the section about new developments and what we know so far on AI in PowerPoint. Available tools, announcements nad promises from companies to make our life a breeze with auto-generated content for PowerPoint.
Here we will explore the Microsoft Designer app which seems like a feature that might resemble generating content for our graphical projects or even presentation. In the lecture, we will try a few keywords and see if Microsoft Designer could prove useful in our work.
Here I wish to introduce you to the ZOOM & MORPH section of this course.
Let me list a few features that the ZOOM feature in PowerPoint brings to the table.
What is the difference between ZOOM & MORPH? Which one to use? Let me explain what morph actually is and what it isn't!
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