Beyond Basic PowerPoint Slides: Adding Visual Variety

Beyond Basic PowerPoint Slides: Adding Visual Variety

1h 6mBeginner2025-03-10

Authors

Julie Terberg

Julie Terberg

Designer, Author, Consultant, Founder of Terberg Design

Course details

Did you know that you can create more visual excitement and design more interesting slides that capture an audience’s attention in PowerPoint? In this intermediate-level course, join Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Julie Terberg as she outlines strategies and techniques for introducing visual variety and eye-catching elements to your slide designs. Along with editing text-heavy slides, Julie also demonstrates how to leverage different compositions, sizes, styles, and shapes to boost the effects of your next batch of slides.

Learning objectives
Understand why text-heavy slides are not effective for presenting, and how to edit slide text to keep high-level information only.
Recognize typical slide arrangements and understand how they can be improved.
Understand ways to vary slide composition, object size, font and font styles, fill color, fill style, and shape to add visual interest in presentations.
Apply the PowerPoint skills and lessons in adding variety to create more visually interesting presentations.

Skills covered

Photo SharingPhotojournalismInfographicsPowerPointPresentationsData VisualizationPhotographyGraphic DesignData ScienceBusiness Analysis and StrategyBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Beyond basic PowerPoint slides
  • Adding visual variety
  • What you should know

Getting Started

  • Text-heavy slides
  • Editing text-heavy slides
  • Using a design grid

Vary the Composition of Slides

  • Planning new slide compositions
  • Examples of varying composition
  • Hands-on - Vary composition

Vary the Size of Elements on Slides

  • Vary size
  • Hands-on - Vary size

Vary the Style of Objects on Slides

  • Vary type
  • Hands-on - Vary type
  • Vary fill color and fill style
  • Hands-on - Varying fill color
  • Varying shape
  • Hands-on - Varying shape

Picture and Icon Resources

  • Resources for pictures and icons

Conclusion

  • Do something different
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