PowerPoint Design for PowerPoint Presentations - Get Amazing Slides Done. Fast & Efficient

What it actually covers

The course opens with a foundations chapter before any slide gets built. Shortcuts for resizing with Shift, Ctrl and Alt come first, followed by the Format Shape panel, then two tools the course treats as its real payoff: Format Painter and Animation Painter, which copy visual styling and motion sequences from one object to another with a single click. From there it works through color scheme selection, font pairing, PowerPoint version differences (including what changes between a one-time purchase and an Office 365 subscription), the Quick Access Toolbar, and importing vector files. None of this is exotic, but it is presented as groundwork the later design work depends on, and the course is explicit that skipping it will make the slide-building chapters harder to follow.

The second chapter is where the course earns its "masterclass" label. Instead of demonstrating features in isolation, it builds one client presentation slide by slide: a title slide, an About Us page, a features section, a data table, an organizational chart, and a closing contact slide. Each lesson tackles one slide, working through composition, alignment, iconography and color application as a single continuous project rather than a set of disconnected demos. This structure is the course's biggest strength. Watching a full slide get designed from a blank canvas, including the small decisions like why an icon needs to be an SVG rather than a PNG to be recolorable, teaches more about layout judgment than a features tour would.

Animation and data handling

The back half moves into animation and data. Before animating anything, the course walks through grouping strategy, deciding which elements on a slide should move together and which should move independently, which turns out to be a genuinely useful planning step most PowerPoint tutorials skip. The Morph transition gets a solid demonstration on an organizational chart, cropping a duplicated slide down to one section at a time so the transition appears to zoom and rearrange between reveals. Bullet-point animation is handled with more care than usual too, including a "dim previous point" technique that keeps a presenter's current talking point visually dominant.

The data chapter is the most technically substantial part of the course. It covers the difference between simply pasting an Excel table (which embeds a static copy) and using Paste Special to create a live link, so that editing the source spreadsheet updates the PowerPoint file automatically. Separating a table and its associated chart into independently linked objects, so each can be positioned on different slides, is a genuinely non-obvious trick that will save real time for anyone who builds reporting decks regularly.

Where it falls short

The course's delivery is casual to a fault. Extended joke bits and asides pad out lesson introductions, and the instructor's phrasing is frequently rough, with tangled sentences that occasionally require rewatching a segment to catch the actual instruction. The "all levels" label oversells accessibility: a viewer with zero PowerPoint experience will lose the thread quickly, since the course assumes basic navigation and shape insertion are already comfortable. At over eight hours across more than 60 lessons, the pace is also uneven, with some lessons covering a single shortcut in detail while others compress several design decisions into a few minutes.

Despite the rough edges, the course delivers what it promises: a genuine slide-by-slide design workflow, a defensible approach to animation planning, and Excel-linking techniques that most PowerPoint content never touches. It rewards patience with production-ready skills rather than a stack of disconnected tips.

What you will learn

• ·Core PowerPoint shortcuts (Shift/Ctrl/Alt resizing) and the Format Painter and Animation Painter tools for copying styling and motion between objects
• ·How to build a branded slide deck from scratch: title slide, About Us, feature grids and a contact page, with alignment and color-scheme discipline
• ·Grouping objects deliberately before animating them, plus using the Morph transition to break an organigram or diagram into sequential reveals
• ·Linking Excel tables and charts into PowerPoint with Paste Special so slide data updates automatically when the spreadsheet changes
• ·Practical finishing touches: embedding fonts so files display correctly on other machines, looping background music, and organizing slides into sections
• ·Custom bullet-point styling with tiered colors, spacing and dim-after animations for cleaner narrated presentations