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PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Microsoft Powerpoint Courses Presentation Skills Courses Color Theory Courses

Course Description

Overview

Get a quick introduction to purposeful slide design. Discover how to modify and personalize your own design approach to maximize presentation impact.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Designing as Non-Designers
  • Good design
  • Key design components
  • Design pillars
2. Understanding Hierarchy
  • The need for hierarchy
  • Hierarchy in bulleted slides
  • When bullets are cognitively necessary
  • Chunking as a bullet alternative
3. Using Space Effectively
  • The need for space
  • The personality of space
  • Passive vs. active space on slides
  • Space and unity, part 1
  • Space and unity, part 2
4. Creating Similarity and Contrast Strategically
  • The need for sameness
  • The need for difference
5. Using Color Effectively
  • Ways to use color
  • Color in PowerPoint
  • How to choose colors
  • Build a custom color theme
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Heather Ackmann

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