Advanced PowerPoint Training is for the people who can already create simple presentations, and want to add more sophistication. This one-day course shows you how to create a better, effective and meaningful presentation in PowerPoint.

Topics Covered

Working with Shapes

• Drawing “Symmetrical” Shapes (Circle, Square, Straight-line arrow)
• “Cloning” Shapes with automatic alignment without using Copy/Paste shortcut
• “Lock Drawing Mode” for uninterrupted drawing
• Aligning Objects (Shapes, Pictures, Text Boxes, Charts) using in-built “Align” feature
• Using “Highlighters” & “De- Highlighters with Charts and Pictures for targeted visibility
• Using “paper cut-out” shape for quoting some person/news source
• Using “Magnifier” trick to highlight portions of Maps, Products
• Shortcuts: Copy/Paste format of the shape, creating a Duplicate, Nudging, Rotation, Expand/Compress vertically and horizontally, repeating last action using
• Tricks: Using Format Painter uninterruptedly

Keeping the Audience/Reader on Track

• Creating recurring inter-section Agenda Tracker in less than 2.0 minutes
• Topic Tracker

Working with Pictures

• Technical: Image Cropping, Grouping, Layering, Mirror-image
• Best way to modify a picture size (“Lock aspect ratio”) to avoid incorrect dimension ratio
• Compressing Pictures for reduced file size
• Blending company/brand logos with background color – “Set Transparent Color”
• Using Text with Pictures – best examples
• Using royalty free images from the Internet for illustrations
• Building an organized collage of pictures (recent ad banners and promotional material, media coverage news) using “layering”

Avoiding “Death by Bullet” Mini-Series

• Convert bullet point text in SmartArt Shapes in 5 seconds
• Presenting endless bullet points based text into lucid and easy-to-understand Smart Art
• Working in groups and categories
• Working around non-duplicate categories
• Working with hierarchies and flow processes
• Mix and matching techniques for sophisticated visual layouts

Working with Tables

• Using Tables in the most efficient and aesthetically appealing manner
• Best ways to display pictures inside Table cell(s)
• Table based product comparison on various parameters
• Best ways to present text inside Table cell(s)
• Table data visualization

Charts – Choosing the most appropriate Chart & Constructing it

• How to decide which Chart is best suited for presenting a given set of data
• Thermometer chart – Two variables of same scale
• 2-axis chart – Two variables of different scale
• Combining Thermometer chart & 2-axis Chart to present two variables of same scale and one variable of different scale
• Waterfall Chart vs. Pie Chart
• Trendline

Making the Chart more communicative & aesthetically appealing

• Adding external elements (shapes, callouts, and highlighters) to improve communication
• “Ghost line” for depicting future trends
• Axis labels placement
• Axis-value – incremental gap

Animation (optional)

• Basic Overview (Entry, Exit Emphasis, Motion Path; Timing; Trigger event)
• Tracking Animation storyline through “Animation Pane”
• Object Naming, Identification and Selection [“Selection Pane”] for better control over sequence of animation
• Button-triggered Animation (Charts, Maps, Shapes, Text)
• “De-constructing” SmartArt & Charts into individual elements for better maneuverability
• Motion-Path for defining business processes and manufacturing processes

Other Best Practices

• Slide Master (Hierarchy of templates) – What not to do with Company Templates
• Replacing “Thank You” slides with more appropriate message – Examples
• Important Slideshow Shortcuts

Case Studies & Before vs. After Examples

• Training, Process Flow, Financial Numbers Reporting, Positioning a Product
• Reducing number of Slides without losing important message/information
• Presentation types as per audience size and occasion

Overview of new features of v. 2010/2013 (optional)

• Merge Shapes (New in v. 2013)
• Color Picker – “Eyedropper” (New in v. 2013)
• Convert assortment of pictures into an organized Smart Art in 5 seconds (New in v.2010/2013)
• Convert SmartArt to Shapes (New in v.2010/2013)
• Smart Guides (New in v. 2013)
• Auto-Inverse colors for +/- values in Green/Red for Column Charts (New in v.2010/2013)
• Zoom in / out during slideshow (New in v. 2013)

Annexure – self-reading (on request)

• Annexure: Case Change, Embed, Symbol based Bullets, Hyperlinking, Password Protection, Print Out
• Self-reading bonus topics (Summary) – Minto Principle, MECE Principle

Bonus Office Productivity Hacks (most popular)

• Extracting copy able text from scanned documents – no software download/internet needed
• Converting PDF files to PPT and DOC in exact same format and layout
• Save 95% time by avoiding pressing “Delete” & “Space” 100 times on PDF copied text
• Creating own customized Icons in v. 2013
• Connecting Excel data/charts to PowerPoint

Who should attend

Corporate professionals for various domains. Horizontals and verticals of various industries.

Pre-requisites

Basic knowledge on PowerPoint

What you need to bring

Laptops or Desktops.