PowerPoint Crash Course by Wall Street Prep: Elevate Your Presentation Skills

Master PowerPoint for Finance Professionals

Unlock the full potential of PowerPoint with Wall Street Prep’s comprehensive PowerPoint Crash Course. Specifically designed for investment bankers, consultants, and finance professionals, this course equips you with advanced strategies and techniques to create impactful pitchbooks, client decks, and presentations with unmatched precision and speed.

What Is Wall Street Prep – PowerPoint Crash Course?

The Wall Street Prep PowerPoint Crash Course is a specialized training program designed to help finance professionals create effective and professional PowerPoint presentations. Whether you’re an investment banker, financial analyst, consultant, or entrepreneur, this course equips you with the essential skills to communicate complex financial information clearly and persuasively.

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Why Choose Wall Street Prep’s PowerPoint Course?

In the fast-paced world of investment banking and consulting, presentations are more than just slides—they are strategic tools. Unlike typical PowerPoint users, finance professionals require slides that encapsulate extensive analysis and strategy under tight deadlines. Our crash course addresses these unique demands by providing flexible and efficient slide-building methods tailored to your high-stakes environment.

Key Benefits of the PowerPoint Crash Course

• Enhanced Efficiency: Learn to build presentations swiftly without compromising on quality.
• Strategic Design: Develop slides that effectively communicate complex financial data and strategies.
• Professional Flexibility: Adapt your presentations seamlessly to meet diverse client and project needs.

What You’ll Learn From PowerPoint Crash Course?

• 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.

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

Learn from Industry Experts

Our instructors are seasoned finance professionals and consultants who bring real-world experience to the classroom. They understand the demands of building high-quality decks during critical deals and client engagements, ensuring that you receive practical and applicable training.

Trusted by Top Financial Institutions

Wall Street Prep’s PowerPoint Crash Course is a cornerstone of productivity training at leading financial firms and prestigious business schools. By enrolling, you join a network of professionals who have successfully elevated their presentation skills through our proven training methods.

Conclusion:

Investing in Wall Street Prep’s PowerPoint Crash Course means empowering yourself with the skills to create compelling, professional presentations that stand out in the competitive finance industry. Enhance your ability to communicate complex ideas with clarity and confidence, and achieve greater success in your professional endeavors.l markets. Whether you’re an intermediate investor or a seasoned analyst, integrating socionomics into your strategy can significantly enhance your market understanding and investment success.