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PowerPoint Crash Course By Wall Street Prep – Instant Download!

PowerPoint Crash Course

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.

Why you should take this course

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.

What You’ll 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

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

Wall Street Prep’s PowerPoint Crash Course is used in productivity training programs at top financial institutions and business schools.

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.

Course TOC
Introduction
1. PowerPoint Course Introduction

The Setup

2. Course Downloads
3. Speed Is On Your Keyboard
4. The PowerPoint Environment
5. The Formatting Guides
6. Shortcuts And Smart Guides
7. QAT Secrets Part 1: PowerPoint 2010 And Later
8. QAT Secrets Part 1: PowerPoint 2007
9. QAT Secrets Part 2

The Challenge Slides

10. The Challenge Slides Review
11. The 2,3,4 Formatting Sequence
12. Rapidly Editing A Shapes Dimensions
13. PowerPoint Layering Secrets
14. Force Drawing And Fixing Straight Lines
15. Jumping Objects Into Perfect Alignment
16. Your PowerPoint Insurance Policy
17. Speed Demonstration: How Fast You Will Become
18. Expanding The Challenge Slides
19. Different Ways To Copy And Paste Formatting
20. The Format Dipper
21. Secrets For Working With Multiple Lines At Once
22. Taking The Challenge Slides In A Different Direction
23. Using The Rand Function To Fill In A Layout
24. Stress Testing Your Layouts Before They Are Final

Ninja Lines

25. Limitations Of The Alignment Tool Crash Course
26. Distributing The Un-Distributable
27. Aligning Objects To Your Slide Master
28. Otherwise Impossible Odd Side Alignments
29. The Ninja Line Shadowing Technique
30. Creating Snap Grids For Perfect Alignments

Leveraging Lines as Connectors

31. Understanding Proper Connections
32. Connecting Multiple Lines At Once
33. Eliminating Fake Elbow Connectors
34. Elbow Connector Best Practices
35. The Fastest Way To Hook Up A Hierarchy
36. Connector Mess: Standardizing Your Slide
37. Connector Mess: Hooking Up All Your Connectors
38. Connector Mess: Re-Arranging Your Layout
39. Exercise: The Drop & Hide Technique
40. Exercise: Working In Point Editing Mode

Boxing Things Up

41. Defaulting Your Formatting
42. The Boxing Technique
43. 60 Second Polish Test
44. 120 Second Polish Test
45. Boxing Up Other PowerPoint Objects
46. Implied Boxes With Flying Carpets
47. Exercise: Additional Boxing Layouts
48. Exercise: Creating Side Titles
49. Supplemental Exercise #3: Cutting Out An Odd Shaped Box
50. Exercise: Layering Up To An Odd Shaped Box

Tables

51. Navigating Tables From Your Keyboard
52. Table Formatting Best Practices
53. Reworking A Table Pasted In From Excel
54. Selection Pane Distribution Secrets
55. Boxing Up Your Tables
56. Fixing The 3 Phantom Spacing Menaces
57. Merging And Splitting Tables
58. Exercise: Building Out Around A Table
59. Exercise: Creating The Accounting Style Formatting In PowerPoint
60. Exercise: Creating Tab Stop Tables
61. Exercise: Breaking Tables Apart

Charts

62. The Trick To Breaking Charts Apart
63. Charting Shortcuts, Mistakes And The Linking Vs. Embedding Debate
64. The Chart Formatting You Will Use 90% Of The Time
65. Copying And Pasting Your Chart Formatting
66. PowerPoint 2007 And 2010: Creating A Double Layered Axis
67. PowerPoint 2013 And Later: New Charting Features + Creating A Double Layered Axis
68. Creating Automatic Calculating Totals For Stacked Column Charts
69. Dueling Bar Charts 1: Bar Charts Vs. Column Charts
70. Dueling Bar Charts 2: Laying Out Two Equal Bar Charts
71. Dueling Bar Charts 3: Creating Back-To-Back Dueling Bar Charts
72. Dueling Bar Charts 4: Creating A Table-Like Effect Around Your Dueling Bar Charts
73. Creating A Reporting Dashboard: PowerPoint 2013 And Later
74. Creating A Reporting Dashboard: PowerPoint 2007 And 2010
75. Exercise: Overlaying An XY Scatter Plot for PowerPoint 2013 And Later
76. Exercise: Overlaying An XY Scatter Plot for PowerPoint 2007 And 2010

Conclusion

77. The One Armed Mouse Trick

Bonus: Bullet Busting Mini Course

78. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 1
79. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 2
80. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 3
81. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 4
82. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 5
83. Bullet Busting Mini Course Lesson 6

Bonus: Slide Master Survival Guide

84. Slide Master Survival Guide Part 1
85. Slide Master Survival Guide Part 2
86. Slide Master Survival Guide Part 3

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