40 PowerPoint tips and tricks: better slides in minutes

Speed up your workflow, learn new techniques and improve your slides

Created by: Alan Lomer
Presentation Specialist

What Will I Learn?

• Improving the workflow of common tasks
• Optimize your presentations and your time
• Learn new functions to improve your slides and presenting
• Understand advanced interactions and animations
• Create a superior presentation experience
• Quick and convenient access to all your frequently used commands and functions
• Create engaging and professional-looking social media graphics
• Essential keyboard shortcuts for quick and precise adjustments
• Create complex, smooth animation effects between slides quickly and easily
• Quickly apply formatting with a single click
• More control over PowerPoint colours by creating a custom colour theme
• Use SmartArt to crop and resize all your images to a consistent size
• Combine slides from various presentations while controlling the formatting
• Reuse a consistent chart style across different presentations
• Reduce the overall file size of your PowerPoint presentation
• Enrich your presentations with video content while maintaining a manageable file size
• Using custom fonts in your presentation to add impact
• Remove the background from any image
• Move away from standard chart types to something more bespoke
• Create complex shapes that are not readily available in the shape library
• Set up any number of slides to loop automatically
• Record and share your presentation with audio or video narration
• Add your live camera stream directly on to the slide, in any size or shape
• Use interactivity to give your audience more control over their viewing experience
• Highlight certain data to tell your story effectively
• Add a dynamic and interactive element to your presentations
• Smoothly morph to and from any shape using the Morph transition and object tagging
• Overcome PowerPoint's limitations and loop multiple animations

Requirements

• PowerPoint 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 (or Office 365)

Target audience

• This course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to speed up their workflow, optimize their presentations and learn new functions to improve their slides and presenting.