PowerPoint — Modern Slides that Look Designed

About this course

PowerPoint becomes powerful when you stop “decorating slides” and start building a slide system. In this course you’ll learn how to create presentations that look designed — the kind you’d expect from a product team, a consultant, or a modern startup. We start with structure: how to define your message, outline a narrative, and choose a layout that supports the story instead of distracting from it. Then you’ll learn layout fundamentals that instantly improve your results: alignment, spacing, visual hierarchy, and how to use grids so every slide feels consistent. You’ll build a small design kit: fonts, color rules, and component styles that stay on-brand. Next we move into the tools that professionals rely on: Slide Master, theme settings, and reusable layouts. You’ll create title slides, section breaks, agenda slides, content layouts, and data slides so you can build an entire deck quickly. We cover practical visuals — icons, shapes, charts, and screenshots — with techniques for making them look intentional and polished. You’ll also learn how to work with images the right way: cropping, overlays, and contrast to keep text readable. The course finishes with a complete mini-deck project. You’ll build a modern presentation from scratch, including a strong opening, clear “problem → solution” flow, supporting data slides, and a confident closing. You’ll also learn delivery tips: speaker notes, slide timing, and “less text, more meaning” habits that make presentations easier to follow. If your slides currently look like a template, this course will help them look like a brand.

You’ll also get a small set of slide templates you can reuse for updates, proposals, and internal reporting.

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Course outline

• Module 1 — Setup: workspace, settings, and the “professional defaults” that save you time.
• Module 2 — Core skills: the daily features you will use constantly (with shortcuts).
• Module 3 — Workflow: templates, consistency, and how to avoid common mistakes.
• Module 4 — Project: build a realistic deliverable and polish it to a professional finish.

Instructor note

This course is designed in a UDEMY-style format: short lessons, clear chapters, and practical outcomes. The goal is not to memorize menus, but to build confidence you can apply immediately.