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PowerPoint Crash Course

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PowerPoint Crash Course

  •   86 Lessons
  •   12h 37m
  •   101,912 Students

Learn PowerPoint strategies and techniques for building better pitchbooks, client decks and other presentations with precision and speed. For investment bankers, consultants and anyone who uses PowerPoint.

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Why You Should Take This Course

What You Will Learn

  • PowerPoint environment and setup techniques
  • Master slides demystified
  • Aligning elements, lines and connectors
  • Building, editing and overhauling layouts
  • Tons of techniques for max speed and efficiency

Investment bankers and consultants use PowerPoint differently than most. A single IB or consulting slide may contain more analysis and strategy than an entire sales presentation, and the fast pace under deadline means slides must be setup with an easy-to-work-with flexibility.

Wall Street Prep's PowerPoint Crash Course teaches finance professionals and consultants the strategies and techniques they need to build better pitchbooks and client decks with lightning-fast efficiency.

This course is used to train new hires at:

Who is This Program For?

This course is designed for finance professionals, consultants and anyone who uses PowerPoint.

  • Investment Banking
  • Consulting
  • Equity Research
  • Private Equity
  • FP&A and Corporate Finance

Course Highlights

Taught by Experienced Professionals

Our instructors are former finance professionals and consultants who know what it takes to build great looking decks during deals and client engagements.

The Same Employee Training Used at Top Firms

This is the same course our corporate clients use to teach their finance professionals and consultants how to build better pitchbooks and client decks.

Breeze Though Lesson Videos at 1.5x & 2x Speed

Save loads of time by bumping up playback speed to breeze through lessons at your own pace.

Get Instructor Support Throughout the Course

Have a question on course content? Communicate directly with instructors by asking questions throughout the course.

Course Samples

Course TOC

1. PowerPoint Course Introduction Video, 3:55
2. Course Downloads Files
3. Speed Is On Your Keyboard Video, 4:53
4. The PowerPoint Environment Video, 2:46
5. The Formatting Guides Video, 9:49
6. Shortcuts And Smart Guides Video, 5:47
7. QAT Secrets Part 1: PowerPoint 2010 And Later Video, 11:16
8. QAT Secrets Part 1: PowerPoint 2007 Video, 9:44
9. QAT Secrets Part 2 Video, 6:19
10. The Challenge Slides Review Video, 5:37
11. The 2,3,4 Formatting Sequence Video, 7:08
12. Rapidly Editing A Shapes Dimensions Video, 9:17
13. PowerPoint Layering Secrets Video, 7:23
14. Force Drawing And Fixing Straight Lines Video, 7:59
15. Jumping Objects Into Perfect Alignment Video, 7:28
16. Your PowerPoint Insurance Policy Video, 9:34
17. Speed Demonstration: How Fast You Will Become Video, 2:39
18. Expanding The Challenge Slides Video, 5:39
19. Different Ways To Copy And Paste Formatting Video, 7:07
20. The Format Dipper Video, 5:48
21. Secrets For Working With Multiple Lines At Once Video, 6:48
22. Taking The Challenge Slides In A Different Direction Video, 9:20
23. Using The Rand Function To Fill In A Layout Video, 7:42
24. Stress Testing Your Layouts Before They Are Final Video, 13:39
25. Limitations Of The Alignment Tool Crash Course Video, 7:20
26. Distributing The Un-Distributable Video, 14:43
27. Aligning Objects To Your Slide Master Video, 5:01
28. Otherwise Impossible Odd Side Alignments Video, 3:08
29. The Ninja Line Shadowing Technique Video, 7:45
30. Creating Snap Grids For Perfect Alignments Video, 4:37
31. Understanding Proper Connections Video, 5:06
32. Connecting Multiple Lines At Once Video, 2:58
33. Eliminating Fake Elbow Connectors Video, 8:14
34. Elbow Connector Best Practices Video, 2:16
35. The Fastest Way To Hook Up A Hierarchy Video, 4:02
36. Connector Mess: Standardizing Your Slide Video, 7:58
37. Connector Mess: Hooking Up All Your Connectors Video, 10:53
38. Connector Mess: Re-Arranging Your Layout Video, 9:52
39. Exercise: The Drop & Hide Technique Video, 8:54
40. Exercise: Working In Point Editing Mode Video, 13:10
41. Defaulting Your Formatting Video, 9:04
42. The Boxing Technique Video, 5:10
43. 60 Second Polish Test Video, 6:54
44. 120 Second Polish Test Video, 4:39
45. Boxing Up Other PowerPoint Objects Video, 8:24
46. Implied Boxes With Flying Carpets Video, 10:03
47. Exercise: Additional Boxing Layouts Video, 7:44
48. Exercise: Creating Side Titles Video, 6:21
49. Supplemental Exercise #3: Cutting Out An Odd Shaped Box Video, 7:13
50. Exercise: Layering Up To An Odd Shaped Box Video, 6:23
51. Navigating Tables From Your Keyboard Video, 5:42
52. Table Formatting Best Practices Video, 10:19
53. Reworking A Table Pasted In From Excel Video, 8:55
54. Selection Pane Distribution Secrets Video, 6:02
55. Boxing Up Your Tables Video, 5:10
56. Fixing The 3 Phantom Spacing Menaces Video, 5:36
57. Merging And Splitting Tables Video, 10:44
58. Exercise: Building Out Around A Table Video, 6:36
59. Exercise: Creating The Accounting Style Formatting In PowerPoint Video, 6:30
60. Exercise: Creating Tab Stop Tables Video, 9:14
61. Exercise: Breaking Tables Apart Video, 17:23
62. The Trick To Breaking Charts Apart Video, 9:35
63. Charting Shortcuts, Mistakes And The Linking Vs. Embedding Debate Video, 15:56
64. The Chart Formatting You Will Use 90% Of The Time Video, 9:48
65. Copying And Pasting Your Chart Formatting Video, 9:55
66. PowerPoint 2007 And 2010: Creating A Double Layered Axis Video, 4:51
67. PowerPoint 2013 And Later: New Charting Features + Creating A Double Layered Axis Video, 16:49
68. Creating Automatic Calculating Totals For Stacked Column Charts Video, 8:48
69. Dueling Bar Charts 1: Bar Charts Vs. Column Charts Video, 6:21
70. Dueling Bar Charts 2: Laying Out Two Equal Bar Charts Video, 10:59
71. Dueling Bar Charts 3: Creating Back-To-Back Dueling Bar Charts Video, 5:20
72. Dueling Bar Charts 4: Creating A Table-Like Effect Around Your Dueling Bar Charts Video, 12:47
73. Creating A Reporting Dashboard: PowerPoint 2013 And Later Video, 15:49
74. Creating A Reporting Dashboard: PowerPoint 2007 And 2010 Video, 12:15
75. Exercise: Overlaying An XY Scatter Plot for PowerPoint 2013 And Later Video, 12:24
76. Exercise: Overlaying An XY Scatter Plot for PowerPoint 2007 And 2010 Video, 10:31
77. The One Armed Mouse Trick Video, 4:07
78. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 1 Video, 7:06
79. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 2 Video, 11:31
80. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 3 Video, 8:23
81. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 4 Video, 7:00
82. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 5 Video, 5:11
83. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 6 Video, 11:28
84. Slide Master Survival Guide Part 1 Video, 37:36
85. Slide Master Survival Guide Part 2 Video, 41:11
86. Slide Master Survival Guide Part 3 Video, 13:15

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