Training course

Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact

This course is aimed at those already familiar with PowerPoint. During this course delegates will go beyond using the standard layouts and designs offered by PowerPoint, to creating their own designs.

Delegates will integrate current design trends into their presentations to create modern but professional slides and learn some of the tricks and short-cut methods for doing so. You will create a presentation containing a variety of slide layouts which can used as a template for future presentations.

  • 1 Day
  • Online or in person
  • Private courses available
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Course Objectives

  • Examine current graphical design trends with a view to how they might be created in PowerPoint.
  • Create layouts
  • Create a design of their own that can be saved as a template and used in future presentations, to achieve a consistent and professional theme.
  • Include effects to their presentation so that it adds variety and keeps the audience engaged while keeping the presentation professional.

Prerequisites

  • Delegates should have a basic knowledge of PowerPoint.

Included

  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Telephone and Email Support

Course content Back to top

  1. Recap Essential Skills
    Using the format pane
    Using the animation pane
    Tools for shape and image alignment
    Using format and animation painter
  2. Design fundamentals
    Exploring current design trends
    Understanding image types
    Choosing the typography
  3. Design and animation your own slide layouts
    Title slide
    Stepped processes
    Timelines
    Maps as a design feature
    Enhance the presentation of your graphs
  4. Master Slides
    Understanding master slides and when to use them
    Understanding themes and designs
  5. Advanced slide design
    Use the shape tools to create sliced images
    Creating simple infographics
    Using icons and images more creatively
    Design and animate a flowchart
    Proper bullet point usage
    Crop and add photographs in any shape
    Use morph transitions effectively
    Create a vignette
  6. Video and Audio
    Add music to reinforce the mood
    Add Video from Online Source or file
  7. Structure and Navigation (Dashboards)
    Create sections in a presentation
    Use links and actions for navigation
    Create a navigation slide (dashboard) for non-linear presentation
    Presentation options

Public dates and prices Back to top

Prices are per delegate and exclude VAT.

  • Friday 20 November 2026

    Virtual, live online 9:30–16:30

    £295+ VAT

  • Tuesday 22 June 2027

    Virtual, live online 9:30–16:30

    £295+ VAT

  • Friday 19 November 2027

    Virtual, live online 9:30–16:30

    £295+ VAT

Can't make these dates? Ask about a private course on a date that suits you.

Training a team?

Run this course privately, on your dates

  • Virtual These courses can be attended from anywhere.
  • Private Flexible course content, flexible training date(s), flexible location(s), variable course length, private to your organisation - Courses can be held at one of our training venues or at another location convenient to you. Training can be set over a number of days or weeks to allow for practice time between training sessions.
  • Bespoke Bespoke private training can be based on an existing course or a number of lessons taken from several courses, we can also write bespoke courses for you based on your in-house systems or development program.

What delegates say Back to top

Any other comments or recommendations

“Adele was very informative and was great at acknowledging when we needed to focus on a topic or perhaps glance over as we had a good enough level of skill already”
N.W., P695, Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact
“Very informative”
L., Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact
“Great course, very interesting”
J., Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact
“This course covered all aspects I needed”
H.M., Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact
“I do not use PowerPoint often so this has given me a great overview”
H.M., Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact
“Really informative, gave a good insight of how powerpoint can help to explain different ideas”
R., Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact
“Great location very accessible”
I.M., Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact
“The nature of this particular course being 11 today was excellent and we really drilled down into the detail that might not have been possible in a larger group.”
I.M., Redefining PowerPoint - Design - Create & Present with Impact

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