PowerPoint Intermediate Course: Masters, Templates, Live Charts and Automation

The beginner course covered layouts, images and presenting. This course is about decks that stay consistent and up to date: a Slide Master with your own layouts, a brand template the whole team uses, charts linked to Excel that refresh, Morph for clear before/after stories, Zoom navigation, decks generated automatically from data with Python, accessible slides and a monthly review deck project.

Each lesson has a practice deck; where it matters there is also a finished example that PowerPoint itself built and we re-opened to check (layouts, a working Excel link, Morph on the right slide, a generated deck).

Before you start: the PowerPoint Beginner Course. Microsoft 365 or PowerPoint 2019+ for Morph and Zoom.

1. 1PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 1: Slide Master and Custom LayoutsStop formatting slide by slide: set fonts, colours and logo once in the Slide Master and create your own layouts such as…
2. 2PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 2: A Brand Template (.potx) for the Whole TeamTurn your master into a company template: theme colours and fonts, only the layouts people need, saved as .potx and shared so…
3. 3PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 3: Charts Linked to Excel That UpdatePaste charts as links so this month's numbers flow into the deck: paste link vs embed, updating, Edit Links, and what breaks…
4. 4PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 4: Morph for Before-and-After StoriesUse the Morph transition to move, resize and recolour objects smoothly between two slides, and force matches with !! object names.
5. 5PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 5: Sections and Zoom NavigationOrganise long decks with sections and use Summary Zoom and Section Zoom to jump to any part during a meeting and come…
6. 6PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 6: Generate Slides From Data With PythonBuild one slide per region, product or branch automatically from an Excel file with python-pptx: titles, native charts and status text, ready…
7. 7PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 7: Accessible SlidesMake decks work for everyone: the Accessibility Checker, alt text, reading order, unique slide titles, contrast and captions for recorded presentations.
8. 8PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 8: Project – A Monthly Review Deck That Updates ItselfFinal project: brand template, Title + Chart layouts, Excel-linked or generated charts, a Summary Zoom menu and Morph for the headline, rebuilt…

Next: automate the data behind your slides with the Python Intermediate Course or Power BI.