How to create PowerPoint templates that sell your message

Key quotes:

• "You don’t need to be a good designer, public speaker, or writer to create a powerful presentation."
• "Take a step away from your computer and layout your content — think about your audience, write down key points, and plan visuals that support your message."
• "People come to see you and hear your message, not see your slides, so you need to tell a good story."
• "Don’t be afraid to use examples and share personal stories to help support your major points."
• "It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points."
• "Incorporate Data Visualizations (Charts, Graphs, and Infographics) Chances are you have data you’d like to incorporate into your PowerPoint presentation that helps support your message and tell your story."

Transcript: There are three components to a template themes slide masters and content themes govern the design or look of your document backgrounds colors fonts slide masters determine how those colors and fonts are applied and what layout of text placeholders are available now while your slide masters may contain some content like logos or picture backgrounds preset slides for legal language company information etc that's what we would call content beginning with a blank presentation with our company logo inserted here is a picture I can get an idea of our color scheme and fonts the company colors that are blues and greens the logo uses Tahoma and brush script fonts and probably just used to Homa if you're unsure the fonts or colors used in your company logo speak to the person who designed it or bring it to a graphics expert let's find a design theme that's close to this branding look in the design gallery on the design tab the colors are used most boldly in the out-of-the-box themes on the title slide by default that is the layout for our first slide if you find a design that's otherwise perfect but has the wrong colors you... See more →

Key quotes:

• "This TED talk by David McCandless about the The Beauty of Data Visualization is a perfect example of the Fact and Story structure."
• "A presentation that follows this structure could turn out to be quite short, if only the facts are presented, but that would leave the audience feeling like “is that it?” Adding an interesting story to help the audience relate makes the overall presentation more effective."
• "This TED talk by Adam Galinsky about how to speak up for yourself is a perfect example of the Situation — Opportunity — Resolution presentation structure."
• "The presentation ends with an inspiring quote by the speaker’s father which leaves the audience feeling like they will know exactly when it’s the perfect time to speak up, or not."
• "Now that we’ve looked at the seven different ways that you can structure your presentation with storytelling techniques, it’s time to make a storyboard."

Key quotes:

• "This go-to guidebook will cover everything you need to know about presentations to make sure you feel confident and prepared no matter the situation."
• "Edit in Design Wizard Chapter 1; How to create the right type of presentation to get your message across Chapter 2; Knowledge is Power — How to start a presentation Chapter 3; How to create a connection with your audience Chapter 4; How to create slides to inspire engagement Chapter 5; Create content that tells a story Chapter 6 How strategy can get you from a bad to a good presentation Chapter 7; Location, Location, Location Chapter 8; Styles of Presentations Chapter 9; The best tools for creating presentations."
• "Edit in Design Wizard You’ve decided on the purpose and goal of your presentation and you’re ready to get started on the content."
• "If you’re giving a presentation in front of people who you don’t know it’s important to be the best version of yourself."
• "Most people are there because they want to be, so knowing you’ll have an audience that is already interested should make you feel right at ease."

Transcript: So the thing about PowerPoint is that it has a bit of a bad rap and I have to say that's not without reason I mean who among us hasn't set through some boring presentations where the speaker relied entirely too much on the slides but then again is that reputation really deserved or is it just a misuse of the tool give a man a hammer and every problem looks like a nail and that's totally the case with PowerPoint just because you can build a slide with everything loaded up on it doesn't mean that you should instead creating a balance of interesting slides that support your speaking points will help you create a presentation that doesn't have the audience glazing over and that's what we'll cover in this screencast keep watching as I show you my favorite presentations to keep your audience engaged and interested so one way of using PowerPoint is to draw everything onto the slide from scratch I'm already working in the app here and the first thing that many people do is they choose a theme from the built-in options and you can see here on the drop-down that there are in fact... See more →

Transcript: Hello ladies and gentlemen my name is one skill and in today's video I will show you how you can create a Prezi style PowerPoint presentation let's go so first of all let me quickly show you what Prezi looks like so that you understand what we will be doing in PowerPoint so Prezi is an online presentation tool that allows you to create awesome dynamic presentations you basically have these bubbles which are like overview of the whole presentation and then you can click on any of these bubbles and you can zoom in and here you get additional bubbles additional content of your presentation and again you can zoom in second time so that's really awesome this way you can create dynamic Non Aligned your presentation experience and PowerPoint has the slides own feature which allows you basically to create similar effect just using PowerPoint so in today's video I will show you how you can create something similar just use in PowerPoint and now let me show you the presentation that I have created in PowerPoint you know so again we have these bubbles and we can click on any of these bubbles we can zoom in... See more →

Transcript: This is Camille from nuts and bolts speedtraining and if you've ever wanted to build a custom PowerPoint templatebut didn't know where to start. In this video I'm going to show youexactly how I would go about building a custom PowerPoint template from scratchand you can follow along and see the steps that I take to make sure that thistemplate is easy to use and functional. Part one, setting up the framework and the layoutdesign for your PowerPoint template in the slide master. Here in PowerPoint, I've opened up a blank presentation andI'm going to use this to begin building out my custom template. And before you even get to this stage, keep in mind that you want to firsthave created your PowerPoint themes, which includes your colors, the fonts as well as theeffect for your shapes. And the next thing you're going to wantto do is you're going to want to sit down and answer some of the questionsthat I cover in the article about how to build a custom template that youcan see in the description below. And you want to make sure that you havethought through some of these questions so that you're building out somethingthat is... See more →

Transcript: Hello and welcome to this exciting new slide design lesson I will teach you how to properly work with images how to use our shape tools to chop up images and place them into our slide composition I go to PowerPoint I have a new presentation opened and I have three text boxes this will be the core for our slide now for the fund this time I've used the latter fund lat o is a really great fund once you install it you should have here in PowerPoint several fonts with the lehto to select for example hair line light heavy and leather fund can be downloaded from www.allsubs.org something maybe a bit darker I can go here nudge it a bit and I think this would be a good base a good color for our background something graves blue navy like this now I'll select those two font and make them white so they are better visible or to be honest if I see it now this perhaps should be a bit more gray so like the title stands a little bit more out now this color should set the tone of our contrast color I will select... See more →

Key quotes:

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