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This simplistic presentation example employs several different colors and font weights, but instead of coming off as disconnected, the varied colors work with one another to create contrast and call out specific concepts.

What I like: The big, bold numbers help set the reader's expectations, as they clearly signify how far along the viewer is in the list of tips.

10. “Pixar's 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling,” Gavin McMahon

This presentation by Gavin McMahon features color in all the right places. While each of the background images boasts a bright, spotlight-like design, all the characters are intentionally blacked out.

What I like: This helps keep the focus on the tips, while still incorporating visuals. Not to mention, it's still easy for me to identify each character without the details. (I found you on slide eight, Nemo.)

11. “Facebook Engagement and Activity Report,” We Are Social

Here's another great example of data visualization in the wild.

What I like: Rather than displaying numbers and statistics straight up, this presentation calls upon interesting, colorful graphs, and charts to present the information in a way that just makes sense.

12. “The GaryVee Content Model,” Gary Vaynerchuk

This wouldn‘t be a true Gary Vaynerchuk presentation if it wasn’t a little loud, am I right?

What I like: Aside from the fact that I love the eye-catching, bright yellow background, Vaynerchuk does a great job of incorporating screenshots on each slide to create a visual tutorial that coincides with the tips. He also does a great job including a visual table of contents that shows your progress as you go .

13. “20 Tweetable Quotes to Inspire Marketing & Design Creative Genius,” IMPACT Branding & Design

We‘ve all seen our fair share of quote-chronicling presentations but that isn’t to say they were all done well. Often the background images are poor quality, the text is too small, or there isn't enough contrast.

Well, this professional presentation from IMPACT Branding & Design suffers from none of said challenges.

What I like: The colorful filters over each background image create just enough contrast for the quotes to stand out.

14. “The Great State of Design,” Stacy Kvernmo

This presentation offers up a lot of information in a way that doesn't feel overwhelming.

What I like: The contrasting colors create visual interest and “pop,” and the comic images (slides 6 through 12) are used to make the information seem less buttoned-up and overwhelming.

15. “Clickbait: A Guide To Writing Un-Ignorable Headlines,” Ethos3

Not going to lie, it was the title that convinced me to click through to this presentation but the awesome design kept me there once I arrived.

What I like: This simple design adheres to a consistent color pattern and leverages bullet points and varied fonts to break up the text nicely.

16. “Digital Transformation in 50 Soundbites,” Julie Dodd

This design highlights a great alternative to the “text-over-image” display we've grown used to seeing.

What I like: By leveraging a split-screen approach to each presentation slide, Julie Dodd was able to serve up a clean, legible quote without sacrificing the power of a strong visual.

17. “Fix Your Really Bad PowerPoint,” Slide Comet

When you‘re creating a PowerPoint about how everyone’s PowerPoints stink, yours had better be terrific. The one above, based on the ebook by Seth Godin, keeps it simple without boring its audience.

What I like: Its clever combinations of fonts, together with consistent color across each slide, ensure you're neither overwhelmed nor unengaged.

18. “How Google Works,” Eric Schmidt

Simple, clever doodles tell the story of Google in a fun and creative way. This presentation reads almost like a storybook, making it easy to move from one slide to the next.

What I like: This uncluttered approach provides viewers with an easy-to-understand explanation of a complicated topic.

19. “What Really Differentiates the Best Content Marketers From The Rest,” Ross Simmonds

Let‘s be honest: These graphics are hard not to love. I especially appreciate the author’s cartoonified self-portrait that closes out the presentation. Well played, Ross Simmonds.

What I like: Rather than employing the same old stock photos, this unique design serves as a refreshing way to present information that's both valuable and fun.

20. “Be A Great Product Leader,” Adam Nash

This presentation by Adam Nash immediately draws attention by putting the company's logo first — a great move if your company is well known.

What I like: He uses popular images, such as ones of Megatron and Pinocchio, to drive his points home. In the same way, you can take advantage of popular images and media to keep your audience engaged.

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If you wish to pair your well-prepared speech with an equally engaging visual presentation , PowerPoint is software that offers many opportunities for creativity. In today’s article, same as every year, we have selected for you a collection of the best free PowerPoint templates to download in 2022 . All are fully customizable. Most of the freebies are multipurpose and you could adapt them to any kind of project. However, we also included presentations suitable for more specialized topics such as education, online teaching, business, and more.

In the meantime, we also refreshed and updated all links for the selection of the best free templates for PowerPoint that you can download in 2021 , all still high-quality designs that check out well in 2022.

1. Free Multipurpose Business PowerPoint Presentation

This is a dark blue and grey business presentation suitable for multiple purposes. It’s especially valuable for students and schoolchildren, as it fits any topic. In terms of slides, the free presentation contains 4 slides – with a title, 35 slides – with photos, 18 slides – with text, 11 slides – with infographics, 4 slides with a calendar, 6 slides with diagrams, 6 slides with gadgets.

• Theme: Multi-purpose
• Slides: 50 free slides

2.  Free Educational Presentation Templates for Online Lessons by Graphic Mama

This free educational PowerPoint template features 20 free presentation slides that, are all editable and compatible with PowerPoint and Google Slides . Perfect for online lessons and home-school presentations.

• Slides: 20 Free Slides
• Theme: Education, Classes, Lessons, Online teaching

3. Minimalism Presentation Free Template for PowerPoint and Google Slides

A smooth, minimalist, and elegant template that will serve as the basis for all your presentations. It features black and white colors, inspirational quotes, simple monochrome grids, infographics, and royalty-free tasteful images.

• Slides: 24 Free Slides

4. Animated Solar System Free Presentation Template for PowerPoint and Google Slides

This presentation template focuses on the curiosities of our solar system. Available for PowerPoint and Google Slides, it features futuristic graphic elements for immersion of your presentation (videos available in the PPT version).

• Slides: 25 Free Slides
• Theme: Astronomy, Science, Space

Did you know, that you can create amazing creative presentations with audio in PowerPoint? Take a look at our article How to Add Audio to PowerPoint: The Quick Step-by-Step Guide

5. Free Hand-Drawn PowerPoint Presentation

Including 8 different slides , designed with hand-drawn illustrations and sketches in a pencil style, this free Powerpoint template will give you an excellent base to make a lasting impression.

• Slides: 8 Free Slides
• Theme: Multi-purpose, Business, Marketing, Planning

6. Free Flow Chart PowerPoint Template

The main features of the free flow chart PowerPoint template include a well-designed presentation structure, graphic images in the text blocks, and animation effects of turning the slides.

• Theme: Infographics, Thesis, Analysis

7. Free Doodle Animated Infographics Template

This presentation packs 8 animated infographics templates for your presentation in a hand-drawn doodle style. All elements are grouped and easy to edit.

8. Dark Blue Free Presentation for Agencies

This template features 9 free slides for presenting your company or agency, goals, values, services, and values.

• Slides: 9 Free Slides
• Theme: Agencies, Startups, Business

9. Build Creative Agency Free Presentation

Build Creative Powerpoint Presentation Template. Fully customization & super easy to use to fit any kind of business use.

• Slides: 106 Free Slides
• Theme: Creative Agencies, Business

10. Free Pitch Deck PowerPoint Template

A free pitch deck PowerPoint template helps you to make this process easy as pie.

• Slides: 15 Free Slides
• Theme: Pitch Deck, Marketing, Analysis

11. Free Timeline Presentation Template

A free timeline presentation featuring timeline and process infographics for your project.

• Theme: Analysis, Marketing, Multi-purpose

12. Free Superhero PowerPoint Template

An easy-to-use layout that you can easily edit and get creative with. Everybody loves superheroes and so will your audience.

• Theme: Multi-purpose, Superhero

13. Free Chalkboard PowerPoint Template

Ideal for teachers who urgently need to prepare a report presentation, lesson, or lecture in Powerpoint and present it to their students.

• Theme: Education, Online teaching

You can also take a look at our collection of 25 Free Education PowerPoint Templates For Lessons, Thesis, and Online Lectures

14. 20 Free Infographic PowerPoint Templates

This infographic templates bundle with over 500 premade infographics includes 20 absolutely free templates for PowerPoint. Editable in many software products such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, Adobe CC, and more.

• 20 free infographics (539 infographic templates in total)
• Theme: Business, Analysis, Marketing, Comparison, Ecology
• Editable in PowerPoint , Google Slides, Keynote, Adobe CC

15. Free Business PowerPoint Presentation Template

A free Powerpoint template with 6 business slides that will give you the opportunity to create amazing, professional presentations. Perfect for reports, business plans, analysis, or product introduction.

• Slides: 6 Free Slides
• Theme: Business, Analysis, Marketing

16. Free Thesis PowerPoint Presentation

You will find slides dedicated to introductions, research, results, and discussion. The covers of the slides are specially designed to introduce each phase of your thesis.

• Slides: 35 Free Slides
• Theme: Analysis, Thesis, Education

17. Alpha: Gradient Design Free Template

Perfect for a wide range of presentation uses. This template is extremely easy to edit and you can use it for whatever you would like. It features 30 slides and a modern gradient design.

• Slides: 30 Free Slides

18. Free Minimalist Presentation Template

A free Powerpoint template, designed in a modern minimalist style. Perfect for presenting your brand, company, or startup with this fresh-looking template.

• Theme: Multi-Purpose

19. eCommerce Fast Delivery Free PowerPoint Templates to Download in 2022

This template shows fast delivery made by mobile phone, a concept of a delivery service using e-commerce in the app.

• Slides: 48 Free Slides
• Theme: eCommerce, Delivery Services

20. Contactless Payment Free PowerPoint Templates to Download in 2022

This template will help you present concepts related to online payments.

• Theme: Payment Security, Online Payment, Online Banking

21. Colorful Light Bulbs Free PowerPoint Template and Google Slides Theme

Whatever topic you’re going to talk about, this design will make your presentation shine. A multi-purpose template with light bulbs is always a good metaphor for creativity and innovation.

• Theme: Multi-Purpose, Innovation

22. Purple Hexagons Free Science PowerPoint Template and Google Slides Theme

A free design suited for scientific or technological topics. Its professional design with hexagonal shapes will attract your audience’s attention right away.

• Theme: Science, Medical, Educational

23. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startup Business Plan Presentation

This template combines elegant colors with cool illustrations of technology and visual resources so that you can captivate the attention of potential investors.

• Theme: Artificial Intelligence, Science, Technology

You may also be interested in these 28 Free Technology PowerPoint Templates for Presentations from the Future

24. Animated Chemistry Lesson Educational PowerPoint Presentation

When you move from one slide to another there is a chemical reaction that gives the magic to this design. Great for teachers to make awesome and engaging chemistry presentations for their students.

• Slides: 13 Free Animated Slides
• Theme: Chemistry, Education, Science

25. Colorful 3D People Free PowerPoint Template and Google Slides Theme

3D illustrations are all the rage right now and this design makes the most of them and makes your content shine.

26. Blue Marketing Free PowerPoint Template and Google Slides Theme

The template’s design offers isometric illustrations on business, marketing, and technology topics. You can change the blue tones in the global theme colors and the illustrations will adapt.

27. Health Sciences Major for College: Mental Health Free Template

This specialized creative design will allow you to present mental health technician university or college training.

• Slides: 36 Free Slides
• Theme: Health, Mental Health, Psychology, Education

28. Spring Season in Fashion MK Plan Free PowerPoint Presentation

You can organize your marketing plan and analyze what will be trendy this spring with this beautiful template.

• Theme: Marketing, Sales, Fashion, Fashion Collections

29. Silver Waves Meeting Free Business Presentation

25 professional and elegant slides with a central stylistic element that gives the name to this layout, its silver waves.

• Theme: Multi-purpose, Business

30. Atoms and the Periodic Table Free Presentation

You can make it easy for your high school students is learning the Periodic Table of Elements or the structure of the atom.

• Theme: Chemistry, Science, Education

31. Modern Pitch Deck Free PowerPoint Template and Google Slides Theme

This design feels fresh and dynamic thanks to its slanted shapes and bright color details. You can change the green tone in the theme color palette in one click and adapt the presentation to your brand.

• Theme: Multi-purpose, Business, Marketing

32. Winning Company Culture Project Proposal Free Presentation Free Template

The Winning Company Project Proposal template sports a creative design that conveys the values of an ever-growing, innovative company.

• Theme: Business, Startup, Growing Company, Project Proposal

Do you want to browse more free templates? Take a look at these 30 Free Modern Powerpoint Templates for Your Presentation

33. Strategic Analysis: Business Environment Infographics Free Presentation

Among the 32 infographic resources included, you will find analysis tools such as PESTEL or SWOT analysis.

• Slides: 32 Free Slides
• Theme: Marketing, Strategic Analysis, Business, Corporate

34. Subtle Diagonals Free PowerPoint Template and Google Slides Theme

The design resembles a texture looking like carved stone with light reliefs. This stylish design is easily customizable to match your brand identity by simply changing the background color.

• Theme: Corporate, Business, Project Proposal

35. Floral Watercolor Free PowerPoint Template and Google Slides Theme

This free template has an elegant design that follows the latest trends, with hand-drawn flowers, golden details, and watercolor textures.

• Theme: Multi-purpose, Wedding Planning, Lifestyle, Gathering, Events

36. Silver Chrome 3d Elements Free Presentation Theme for Business

The creative modern silver decorations and 3D elements will give your project a futuristic appearance that looks up to date.

37. Improving Self-Esteem Free Presentation

This presentation is most suitable for an audience of younger students, to learn the importance of self-esteem.

• Theme: Psychology, Pedagogy, Education

38. Counseling and Student Services Major for College Free Presentation

Here we have a presentation ideal for counseling and pedagogy educational materials and counseling college majors.

• Theme: Psychology, Counseling

39. Youth Mental Health First Aid Workshop Free Presentation

Template for Google Slides and PowerPoint for lessons on how to give some first aid to people who suffer from bad mental health.

• Slides: 28 Free Slides
• Theme: Psychology, Education

Final Words

We hope you enjoyed our hand-picked selection of the best free PowerPoint templates to download in 2022. You can use these templates the way they are or completely transform them to match your personal style and make your next presentation spectacular.

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Top 10 Project Overview Templates with Examples and Samples

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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Before beginning work on any project, you need to make a plan to execute it better. Planning is the very first step in starting any project. It allows the process to run smoothly without any obstacles. Moreover, while planning, you can also predict possible outcomes and strategize how to tackle these better beforehand. That is why managers create a project overview to stay organized and ahead.

What is a project overview? Simply put, a project overview summarizes the project or its blueprint. It allows for planning the project by incorporating essential details such as project timeline, team members, roles, project duration, cost, scope, and expected outcomes.

Not only is it beneficial in executing the project, it also acts as a reference until completion. A large amount of information can be summarized and presented to help the members understand it better. Apart from that, a project overview allows managers to keep track of progress. Every project overview has its objectives and reasons. But a good one answers all the questions about the project and provides clear and resourceful information. No matter what your industry is, a project overview is vital to reach your goal.

Now that we understand the importance of a project overview, the question arises: How do we create one? Well, creating a project overview can be cumbersome and take time. But you need not worry as we are here with the right solution. SlideTeam brings you project overview templates using which you can create an overview of your upcoming project in no time. All these templates are content ready and 100% customizable, making it more accessible than ever to create the project overview that meets your requirements.

Check out our list of our top 10 project overview templates.

Template 1: project scope overview powerpoint presentation slides.

Our Project Scope Overview PowerPoint Presentation Slides allow you to plan every detail of your project such as inputs, tools, and technique. It assists in distinguishing what is and what is not part of the project and controls what is allowed or removed when the project is executed.

You can execute all processes when you know exactly what you need to make your project successful. Using this template, you can manage your team and determine the number of employees required to complete the project as well.

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Template 2: Project Brief Summary PowerPoint Presentation Slides

If you are looking for a template that allows you to provide a concise description of your project, then this PPT Layout is for you. Using these 20-Slide template, you can provide complete information about the project to your audience. It allows you to pinpoint key risks and issues and the paths to tackle them. Apart from this, other details, such as the project budget and benefits, can be represented. Get this template and keep track of processes and ensure that the project is completed on time.

Template 3: Digitalization Strategy to Accelerate Project Overview for Digital Transformation

A business's online presence is vital, but brands must execute it strategically. If you want to digitize your business, this amazing template is proven to be beneficial. This template allows your audience to understand the project in detail and helps you implement digital transformation. The slides incorporate project description, location, budget, and objectives to create an excellent project overview. In addition, you can dispense project duration by providing an expected end date and ensuring you complete the project on time by downloading this template.

Template 4: Determine Charter for Project Overview Project Management Playbook

Before the project begins, it is vital to ensure that your team members and project associates have a shared understanding of the objectives, resources required, the people needed, and their roles. With Determine Charter for Project Overview Project Management Playbook, you can provide your audience with a map about how the project needs to progress. Using this template, you can provide information on stakeholders involved, project constraints, and various deliverables.

Template 5: Feasibility Study Templates for Different Projects Construction Project Overview

Starting a commercial project is a good decision, and by using this template, you can make a better decision for your company. Before starting any business, it is vital to understand whether it will work practically. So, feasibility study becomes essential. With our Feasibility Study Template, you can outline the project's viability and know whether or not you should proceed. In addition, using this construction project overview, you can provide information on essential features of required commercial sites.

Template 6: Project Overview IT Change Execution Plan

Executing change is about bringing theoretical planning into practice. This change execution can either make or break your project. It is a risky and costly step. It would help if you planned out the project overview to avoid any mistakes. Using Project Overview IT Change Execution Plan, you can summarize the transition by providing information regarding the purpose, key deliverables, budgets, risks, and issues. It also covers the employees' details and the estimated time to complete the project.

Template 7: Program Charter Showing Project Overview Management Team and Milestones

If you are looking for a template that helps create a precise and effective project overview, then this template is for you. This unique template offers the three-stage processes: Program Charter, Project Charter, and Project Management to Project Overview. It helps provide you with the project overview, from purpose, scope, and key deliverables to resources, tools, and budget. You can represent milestones and demonstrate the status of ongoing projects. Get this template to ensure that your project is on the right track.

Template 8: Current Network Strategic Alignment Project Overview Knowledge Organization

Strategic alignment, together with appropriate organizational skills, is essential for the success of your project or business. However, it can derail if the execution is not planned. This PPT template can help you strategically organize your current network to use the available organizational skills. In addition, this graphical template, with its distinctive visual appeal, allows you to engage your audience and convey your message and incorporates seven planning stages.

Template 9: Project Brief Objectives PPT Summary Example Introduction

Team members working on any project need to know about it and its expected outcomes to work more efficiently. Using this template, you can create an engaging and informative project overview and a clearer picture of the outcomes, making every choice simpler and faster. It lets you brief your audience on the project, describe the objectives, and show the status. Download this template and your team will know where to focus.

Template 10: One Page Project Overview Charter Presentation Report Infographic PPT PDF Document

Do you want a crisp and precise project overview? Then you must download our following striking and functional PPT Template to brief your project. Using this template, you can make your team members understand their roles, the scope of the project, and how it will be carried out. This template also represents delegation of authority. You can define the milestones of the project, the performance of employees, and the project status. This template will help you plan and monitor all the steps and processes of the project; download right away.

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Planning is essential to starting any project, whether big or small. It creates a clearer picture for you and your employees. Thus, it helps you achieve your expected goals more effectively and smoothly. Choose the template that suits your requirements and download it now to create an outstanding project overview.

FAQs on Project Overview

What is a project overview report.

A project overview report is the summary of the project. It includes the project's purpose, objectives, budget, deliverables, project location, cost, and duration. By planning the project ahead of time, you can assess various risks and issues associated with it and strategize a plan to tackle them. No matter what industry, big or small, it is essential to create a project overview. You can use SlideTeam's templates and build a breakthrough project overview.

What is the project overview example?

A project overview example is SlideTeam's groundbreaking templates with samples that offer a detailed project description. They provide a brief on the project goals and objectives in a striking format and help formulate the outline of necessary resources and tools to achieve your goals.

Why is a project overview important?

Having a project overview is important because:

● It helps represent essential details and elements of the project, providing clarity to your team members. ● It acts as a roadmap and guides the members through project stages. ● It saves time, accelerates the process, and improves the success rate.

What should we write in a project overview?

A project overview is simply a brief of the entire project. Elements that you should incorporate in the project overview are:

● Project Timeline ● Major Deadlines ● Project Budget ● Project Status ● Deliverables ● Team Members and their Roles ● Project location, cost, duration, scope ● Project brief/summary ● Expected outcome ● Status

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51 Best Presentation Slides for Engaging Presentations (2024)

Written by: Chloe West

When you're creating a presentation for a live audience or embedding it on a webpage for visitors to access on their own time, you want it to be engaging. And unfortunately, too many presentation slides are boring and forgettable.

But with Visme, we've put together 51 of our top presentation slides to help you find the perfect template for your next presentation.

To make navigation easier, we've broken them down into six categories. Browse through each below to find your next presentation slides.

Here's a short selection of 8 easy-to-edit presentation templates you can edit, share and download with Visme. View more below:

51 Best Presentation Slides for Engaging Presentations

Business Presentation Slides

Finance presentation slides.

• Sales & Marketing Presentation Slides

Education Presentation Slides

Pitch deck presentation slides, nonprofit presentation slides, presentation slide faqs.

There are so many reasons you might need to give a presentation in your business or career. And we’ve got just the right templates to get you started.

After all, you’re probably spending enough time creating the content and rehearsing your presentation deck. You don’t need to worry about your presentation slide design at the same time.

Here are a few of the best presentation slide ideas based on topic material, like the ones you’re regularly using. And if you're racing against the clock, tap into Visme's AI presentation maker to create eye-catching presentations in seconds. Just input your prompt, provide more context, select your preferred style and watch the tool generate your slides. Customize every part of your presentation with our intuitive editor.

1. Meeting Agenda Template

Customize this presentation template to make it your own! Edit and Download

Sick of seeing team members nod off or lose focus during your team meetings?

Put together your meeting agenda ahead of time using these presentation slides to help keep your team engaged and informed throughout.

This template comes with 15 premade presentation slides that cover everything from project management to charts showing performance and overall meeting objectives. Whatever you need to share in your meeting, you can find in this theme.

Plus, you can completely customize these business slides to match your company colors directly in Visme!

2. Company Goals Template

It’s important to ensure everyone on your team knows and understands the company’s goals. After all, everyone’s work should be geared towards achieving those goals.

You can use these nice business slides to put together a background of your company and how far it’s come, as well as detail your upcoming goals, launches and more.

3. Company Overview Template

If you’re speaking to a networking group about your company or pitching to investors, you likely need to give an overview of your company, its leadership team and its offerings.

These are the perfect presentation slides to help you put together a minimalistic design that draws focus towards your company and its mission.

Plus, all of these good-looking slides are perfectly set up to highlight your company’s most important assets.

And best of all, they’re completely customizable. Add in your own brand fonts and colors to create the perfect presentation for your business.

Make the goal-setting or design process a collaborative activity with the help of Visme’s collaborative feature . Team members can edit your presentation, leave feedback and draw annotations in real-time or at their own pace.

4. Project Status Report Template

When it comes to project management, you could always just send over a boring email or report update, but a better way would be to put together a presentation updating your team and/or your supervisors on the status of the project and the remaining timeline.

This presentation theme comes with 14 different slides to help you put together a status report that covers all aspects of your project: the various phases and how far along each one is, the timeline for your project, a project health card and more.

You can also gain even more inspiration for your project timeline slides from these timeline infographic ideas .

5. Business Annual Report Template

Want to show your boss how the company is doing? Or share how your team’s efforts have affected the bottom line? Put together a presentation that shows your business’s results over the year.

While this presentation template comes with a fun geometric accent pattern, you’re able to swap out any of these shapes for ones that more accurately represent your business or your message right in Visme’s design dashboard.

Working on this design with your team? Effectively manage the process with Visme’s workflow management tool . You can assign different sections of the slide to your team members to work on set deadlines, manage progress, track corrections and more.

6. Business Plan Template

Are you starting a new business? You might be looking for investors, or perhaps you want to pitch the idea to a potential cofounder. You need to deploy the best presentation slides possible.

You can use this theme to put together a polished business plan presentation that showcases your business idea, the market summary, the industry opportunities and more.

You can also use Visme’s color themes to find the perfect color scheme for your presentation and your upcoming business. After all, your brand colors can say a lot about your business.

7. Product Introduction Template

Put together a presentation that introduces a new product idea to your boss, your board of directors or your investors. Take advantage of the charts and graphs in Visme’s design dashboard to showcase various studies and statistics that prove why your idea will be profitable.

Or you can utilize this presentation theme to introduce a product to the public. If your company is in the process of developing a new product to release, a presentation introduction can be a great and engaging way to share it with your audience.

8. Product Presentation Template

Whether you’re launching a new product or sharing the features of an already existing one, you can show off your product through a presentation with nice slides.

You can share your presentation on social media, on your website or at a large company event to announce it to your audience. Include bright, high-quality photos of your product and a list of its best features to really highlight your new release.

9. Visual Brand Identity Template

There are many different ways to create a brand style guide for your business. One great way is with a presentation.

These presentation example slides allow you to seamlessly input your fonts, colors and other visual guidelines into a single presentation so that you can easily share your brand with the designers, marketers and other members of your team.

10. Special Business Presentation Template

These presentation slides can help you easily put together a business introduction template for a conference or networking event.

Just click above to edit in Visme, switch out your background with one of the thousands of options in our photo library, add in your own key facts, vision and values and download!

If you’re running out of ideas for your presentation , you can use Visme’s Writer AI to produce high-quality drafts, proofread your content or adjust its tone.

11. Industry Trends Template

Put together a presentation to showcase upcoming trends in your industry. You can leave the patterns and colors the way they are in these existing presentation slides, or you can add in your own brand colors or product colors.

Understanding developing trends in your industry each year is important so that you know where your business should focus its efforts.

Sharing a presentation with your team is a great way to stay ahead of the curve.

12. Services Template

Use these slide presentation examples to showcase your services and what you can offer your clients/customers. If you have a visual business, a presentation is an excellent way to highlight your work and show it off to prospective leads.

Swap out each photo in the example slides with photos of your work, update the fonts to match your brand voice (or upload your brand fonts) and add in the services you offer.

13. Slideshow Template

A slideshow presentation is a great way for you to showcase photos of your work alongside your service offerings. This template even includes social media icons on the last page so that viewers know how to find the business online.

Again, you’ll want to swap out all of the photos with your own work, but this presentation theme is a great way to get started.

14. How To Presentation Template

Are you presenting a tutorial or step-by-step guide on how to do something? Using example slides to put together your content is a great idea.

It’s a disservice to your company and your customer to assume that everyone automatically knows how to use your product or service. Showing your audience exactly what to do is essential to your customer service strategy.

Spice up your presentation by adding stunning, high-resolution images and stock photos , videos , icons , widgets and other design elements.

Didn’t find any photos that caught your eye? We’ve got you. Use Visme’s AI image generator to whip up captivating images that match your presentation theme and design.

Even if you have photos that need editing, use Visme's AI Edit tools to touch up, unblur, upscale, erase and replace images with one click.

15. Survey Results Template

Putting together a customer survey is a great idea to understand how your audience feels about your industry or even your company. Grab those results and insert them into these presentation slides to share with your team.

You can also put together a blog post or webpage with survey results and embed this presentation directly into it so your audience can understand the state of the industry as well.

Visme’s design dashboard allows you to add in various charts and graphs that adjust automatically based on the numbers you input. After all, ain’t nobody got time for manually adjusting the sizes of bar graphs and pie charts.

16. Company Overview Presentation Template

Utilize these beautifully designed presentation slides to create a brief overview of your company and its offerings.

Having a readily available presentation overview of your company is a great idea for when you’re pitching investors, journalists for coverage and more. You don’t need to recreate a presentation each time. Instead, put together a visually appealing and informative one-size-fits-all overview.

You can add in your own photos or choose from Visme’s photo library to keep the same beautifully minimalistic appeal.

When sharing financial information, it’s always helpful to put together some kind of visual aid. This can be used to further emphasize your content, whether it’s about going over budget, showing off exciting revenue increases and more.

Check out these finance slide presentation examples to find the perfect template for your goals.

17. Financial Report Template

Use this template to put together a presentation that goes over your company’s expenses, sales, profits and more.

The built-in data visualization options allow you to showcase your point with more than just numbers. Add in a table of contents to keep your report organized and cohesive, letting your team know exactly what information they’ll find inside.

18. Statistical Presentation Template

Need to report some financial statistics and data? These presentation slides are perfect for helping you insert cold, hard facts into your presentation.

Each slide includes a different type of chart or graph for you to choose from to fully represent your data and statistics. You can easily switch your color scheme by inputting your own brand colors or by choosing a preset color theme from Visme’s dashboard.

19. Map Presentation Template

It’s important to know where it makes the most sense to market your product geographically. Showcase sales and overall company growth and profitability by location.

Knowing your revenue based on geographic location is essential for a global company, and this presentation template is perfect for the job.

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Sales and Marketing Presentation Slides

When it comes to sales and marketing for your company, there is a lot of data and information that can be represented visually. Creating sales and marketing presentations helps with keeping your team on the right track, but can also be a great way to make a pitch.

Learn more about creating essential sales and marketing presentations with these templates.

20. Visualization for Sales and Marketing Template

When you’re putting together a sales and marketing plan, you have to present it to your boss for approval, then to your team for implementation.

Use these presentation slides to help visualize your sales and marketing plan , including each of the upcoming tactics and strategies and the steps for putting them in place.

Having a presentation to refer back to allows your team to ensure they’re implementing the strategies properly.

21. Simple Marketing Presentation Template

Whether you’re introducing new marketing ideas to your team, pitching a new marketing strategy to your boss or to a new client, a presentation with nice slides is the perfect format.

Grab this presentation template that helps you to define your new ideas and share specific tactics for how they should be implemented for the business. Then get ready to rock your pitch and share your awesome new ideas.

22. Market Analysis Template

Review market trends with your team so you know where to take your company’s marketing messaging. You can send out a customer survey or take a look at a few studies that have been done surrounding your industry to put together your market analysis report.

Input all of your findings into this presentation template so you can easily present it to your team or grab the link and send it in an email. Even if you’re not standing up to give a presentation, these presentation slides are still an engaging way to share necessary information.

23. Marketing Plan Template

Building a new marketing plan for your business? Put together  great presentations for your marketing plan to share with your team.

Presenting your new marketing plan to the company is a great way to get everyone motivated and on board with new strategies and ideas.

You can add in your goals, objectives and even user personas with this ready-made marketing plan template.

24. Sales Report Template

Your sales team should be regularly providing insight on how much revenue the company is generating. And a great way to do that is through a sales report presentation or slideshow.

It’s important to stay informed of sales growth throughout the year. Share graphs of sales quarter-over-quarter or year-over-year to see where the company/sales team needs to improve.

25. Press Release Template

Don’t just write a boring old press release to send out to journalists and media publications. Instead, create an interactive press release showcasing your launch.

A presentation press release will help your business stand out from the dry press releases most publications receive, offering even more incentive for them to highlight your business and its products/services.

Edit this business slide to add in your own brand touches, voice and launch information before grabbing the link and sending it off.

26. Social Media Report Template

Sharing results of any marketing strategy is always essential. This is how you keep your team updated of any strategies that are working, and any strategies that need some adapting.

This presentation theme is a great way to share your current strategy and results. Input your platforms, your strategies and your metrics before presenting it to your team. Customize the presentation slides so that they cater perfectly to your company’s strategy.

27. Social Media Strategy Template

Pitching a social media strategy to your boss can also be done well with a presentation. Showcase why social media is important to invest in, what your plan is and how it will affect the bottom line.

This presentation template already gets you started in perfectly pitching your own strategy. Simply adjust it to your brand colors and fonts and update the information with your own.

Presentations are huge in educational settings.

Whether you’re a teacher looking for an interactive way to share your lesson plan or a student trying to finish up a school project, we’ve got the presentation templates for you.

Take a look at our education presentation slide options to find one that works for you.

28. Training Plan Template

When working one-on-one with a student or mentee, it can be a good idea to put a training or education plan into place. These presentation slides are the perfect start to your lesson and can help to visualize the content and learn in a different way.

Putting together educational content in a presentation helps offer different formats for learning. Students are often not provided with all of the tools they need to learn the material, and an interactive presentation is a great place to start.

29. Book Report Template

Putting together a book report to present for your class? Get started with a presentation theme that you can fully customize for your specific book.

These presentation slides allow you to seamlessly enter in the information about your main characters, the theme of the book, its timeline and any other pertinent information you need to share with the class.

Don’t worry about presentation design in your next project. We’ve already got it all put together for you! Simply click edit, insert your book content and download your presentation.

30. Trivia Template

Help your class remember fast facts before a text with this trivia template. It’s a great way to host a study session in your classroom, and the content is easily interchangeable.

Or if you’re a student, put together a presentation study guide to help you memorize the most important key facts and information from class. A trivia presentation format can make for a fun study sesh before the test.

31. Lesson Plan Template

Don’t waste time putting together a dry Microsoft Word or PowerPoint lesson plan. Instead, create an interactive lesson plan that helps you stay on message during your class, and helps your students to know exactly what’s going to come next.

32. Group Project Template

Group presentations just got a little more exciting. Blow the rest of your class’s projects away by using these presentation slides to compile your overall project objectives and results.

You can easily adjust colors and fonts, add in your team members and insert copy relevant to your class and your group project.

Don’t forget to thank your classmates and your teacher for listening in the end.

A pitch deck is an essential presentation for all businesses and entrepreneurs to have. There are many times you might need to pitch your business, whether it’s to investors for funding, journalists for media coverage and more.

Using a presentation template to put together your pitch deck is a great idea so that you can focus on pitching your business without having to worry about the design.

Browse through the pitch deck presentation slides below to find one that works for your business and its goals.

33. Airbnb Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Give this Airbnb-inspired pitch deck presentation theme a go when putting together a slideshow for your business. In your company slide, include the solution that your business provides its customers, product/service information, and excerpts from press acknowledgements.

34. Front Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Showcase your business with this geometric pitch deck template inspired by Front. Add in the planned acquisition channels for your business, your leadership team and more.

Your pitch deck is meant to showcase your business to people who may want to work with you, so it’s important to share the most imperative information.

35. Buffer Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Showcase the state of the industry and your business’s role in it with this pitch presentation slides idea inspired by Buffer. The information these presentation slides include helps you to share the impact your company has had on your industry.

Since industries are ever-changing, you can easily update the information within your pitch deck in Visme and it will automatically sync to the webpage where you embed this presentation.

36. Comms Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Use these presentation slides inspired by Intercom to give your audience an idea of what your product is going to look like and how it will work.

This is the perfect pitch deck template to take advantage of when launching a new SaaS product or app so that you can share what the technology will look like and how it will work.

Showcasing specific features and tutorials is a great way to get people talking about your product.

37. WeWork Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Is your company helping to fuel a movement? Share how your company is changing the industry with this pitch deck template inspired by WeWork.

It’s exciting when your business is doing more for your industry than simply adding another product or service. Focusing on a movement that really switches up the way your industry does things is an incredible feat.

Utilize a pitch deck template like the one above to showcase how your company is involved.

38. Buzzfeed Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Does your business focus on content? Or perhaps you’re creating a new kind of media outlet?

Show off your content and analytics with this Buzzfeed-inspired pitch deck presentation template. Getting advertisers on board and other media outlets to talk about you is important for success.

This is why you need to be putting together a pitch deck that shares that kind of information. No one will want to work with you if you keep your analytics in the dark.

Use dynamic fields to ensure your brand information and other key details stays consistent across slides and other projects. These fields are customizable and change automatically based on input or predefined conditions.

39. Investor Pitch Deck Template

Starting a new venture that you need funding for? Use these presentation slides to put together a pitch for investors in your business.

From showcasing the problem in the industry to your business’s solution, along with your business plan and pricing table is a great way to get potential investors interested in what you’re selling.

40. LinkedIn Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Compare and contrast what processes look like with and without your business with this pitch deck template inspired by LinkedIn.

It’s a great idea to take care of this in your pitch deck so that you make the job of any media outlet or writer covering your business even easier. After all, you’ve done the hard work for them.

They were going to share how your business helps. You’ve already visualized this in your pitch deck. This increases the chances that people will cover your business.

41. Mattermark Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Use this pitch deck presentation theme inspired by Mattermark to put together key questions about the industry that showcase why your business is so essential.

Launching a startup is hard work, and that’s why a pitch deck is an essential marketing tool to have. Creating a pitch deck that already answers the why and how questions of your business is a great way to introduce who you are and what you’re doing to investors and reporters.

42. Foursquare Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Put together an overview of how your product works with this pitch deck presentation template inspired by Foursquare.

With presentation slides already in place to showcase a step-by-step tutorial, all you have to do is input your content and publish your presentation.

43. Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Presentation Template

If your company has been doing some awesome stuff lately, you want your potential investors and those looking to work with your business to know about it.

Show off your company achievements with this pitch deck presentation template inspired by the famous Fyre Festival pitch deck.

44. Biogrify Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Use these presentation slides inspired by Biogrify to excite people about how they can use your product. If you have a unique product or service, you just need to drum up a little excitement and attention!

A pitch deck is the perfect way to do that. Add in your company’s logo, mission and unique selling proposition to get people looking forward to becoming customers/users.

45. Launchrock Pitch Deck Presentation Template

Influencer marketing is a huge marketing strategy that can generate some serious results. What better way to pitch influencers about your business than with this pitch deck inspired by Launchrock?

Don’t email off some boring PDF or Google Doc. Create enticing pitches to influencers with this pitch deck theme, and start watching the replies from influencers pour in.

Working with influencers to promote your product is a great way to increase your audience base and word of mouth about your company.

When you’re running a nonprofit, there is a lot of pitching your organization, talking to donors and working on events to increase donations. This is why you need great slide presentations.

Putting together a presentation for your nonprofit is a great way to showcase what your organization does and why people should donate to it.

Here are a few nonprofit presentation slides to choose from, where all you have to do is insert your information, change colors and fonts and present.

46. Nonprofit Report Template

Put together a report that covers what your nonprofit is working against as well as your nonprofit’s achievements each year.

47. Nonprofit Art Template

Use this presentation slides idea to provide an overview of your nonprofit and its main projects. To generate even more support and donations, it’s important to provide clear insight into your key products and objectives.

48. Nonprofit Environmental Template

This presentation theme is perfect for showcasing the key issues your nonprofit fights for and its process for doing so.

Being transparent about what your nonprofit works on is important so that your donors know exactly where their money is going. Being secretive can generate some bad press, so it’s better to be open with your supporters.

49. Nonprofit Animals Template

These presentation slides use earthy colors to convey their nonprofit’s connection to animal rights. Use this to showcase your nonprofit. You can use the current colors or update it to match your nonprofit’s brand/industry.

50. Wildlife Conservation Template

Use these presentation slide examples to cover why your nonprofit matters and why donors should consider contributing.

A nonprofit only exists when people donate, so putting together a compelling pitch deck showcasing why your nonprofit is so important to your main issue is important. These slides are perfect for sharing your goals and mission.

51. Pet Adoption Slideshow Template

If you're looking for stunning presentation slide ideas , we've got more than enough. This pitch deck presentation template is perfect for SPCAs and other animal societies working on finding forever homes for their animals.

However, it can also be adapted to any other nonprofit or business need. The great thing about these presentation slides is how versatile they are. Each one is completely customizable to fit your specific needs. For example, you can turn it into a video presentation .

Q. What is a PowerPoint Slide Deck?

A PowerPoint slide deck is a collection of slides that are created using an online presentation maker. These slides are used to create presentations for various purposes, like sales , marketing , research , case studies , webinars , onboarding and business in general.

PPT presentation slides typically consist of a series of slides that contain text, images, charts, graphs, and other multimedia elements that are used to communicate information to the audience in an engaging and visually appealing manner.

So why is it called a slide deck? In the early days, presenters would create slides by photographing images or text onto transparent film. These slides would then be loaded into a slide projector and displayed on a screen. The collection of slides was referred to as a "deck," and the presenter would advance through them one by one. Today, the term "slide deck" is still used to refer to a collection of slides or presentation materials, even though most presentations are now created and displayed digitally.

Q. What is a good presentation slide?

A good presentation slide is one that engages your audience and effectively communicates your message.

Here are some key characteristics of a good presentation slide:

1. Keep your slides simple and uncluttered: Avoid excessive text and use bullet points or concise phrases to convey your main points. Use clear and legible fonts, and maintain a consistent design throughout the presentation.

2. Visual appeal: Incorporate visually appealing elements such as relevant images, charts, graphs, or diagrams. Use high-quality visuals that enhance understanding and make the content more engaging

3. Make it readable: Use a readable font size. Stick to a maximum of two or three font styles and sizes. Blend bright and dark colors for the text and background to ensure visual contrast and good visibility.

4. Consistent structure: Use consistent formatting, such as font styles, colors, and alignment, throughout the presentation.

5. Make it interactive: Include animation and interactivity to add flair to your presentation. It can make your presentation powerful and memorable.

Q. How do you make a good presentation slide?

There are lots of presentation software available for creating presentations. But Visme offers users a wide range of features to create visually stunning and engaging presentations.

All you need to do is choose a template from our extensive library of over 500 presentation templates and customize it with your text. You can edit content, change image(s), apply custom colors, input your own fonts and logo, and more. You can visualize data using our wide range of customizable charts and widgets.

Spruce up your presentation by adding audio, video, animations and other interactive elements. Download it as a PDF, PPTX, MP4, and HTML5 to share with your recipient , or generate a shareable link for online sharing.

Q. How do you design a presentation?

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you design some of the best business presentations:

1. Define Your Objective: Determine the purpose of your presentation and identify the main message or key points you want to convey

2. Plan Your Content: Outline the structure and flow of your presentation. Divide it into sections or key topics to ensure a logical progression. Read this article to learn more about creating an effective presentation outline .

3. ​​Create a Storyline: Craft a compelling narrative that ties your key points together. Storytelling can help engage your audience and make your presentation more memorable.

4. Choose a Design Theme: Select a visually appealing design theme or template that aligns with your topic and audience. You can use the ones we've shared above as your presentation inspiration.

Visme’s branding kit streamlines on-brand content creation and ensures you stay consistent across all channels. With our AI-powered brand wizard , you can automatically generate branded templates fitted with your brand elements.

5. Use Visual Elements: Incorporate relevant visuals such as images, charts, graphs, icons, or diagrams to enhance understanding and engagement.

6. Maintain Visual Hierarchy: Organize your content with a clear visual hierarchy. Use headings, subheadings, and bullet points to guide the audience's attention and emphasize key points.

7. Use Transitions and Animations: Apply transitions and animations to enhance the flow and engagement of your presentation.

8. ​​Practice and Test: Review and rehearse your presentation to ensure a smooth delivery. Test your presentation on the actual equipment or platform you'll be using to ensure compatibility and optimal display.

9. Seek Feedback: Before delivering your presentation, consider sharing it with a trusted colleague or friend for feedback. Ask for their input on the content, design, and overall effectiveness. Incorporate their suggestions to improve your presentation.

Q. Which slide is best for presentation?

The best slide for a presentation highly depends on the topic and the target audience. For example, if it's a pitch deck presentation, the financial projections or business model slide would be the best.

However, here are some of the most common slides you should know about:

1. Title Slide: It announces the presentation's topic and introduces the speaker. It grabs the audience's initial attention.

2. Agenda Slide : This gives the audience an idea of what to expect throughout the presentation.

3. Content Slide : These are dense with information. They're best when broken down into bullet points for readability.

4. Visual Slide: Slides with infographics, charts, or other visuals can improve understanding and retention of complex data.

5. Interactive Slide: Encourages audience participation and engagement, especially in virtual presentations.

6. Conclusion/Summary Slide: Reinforces your presentation's key points or takeaways.

7. Question & Answer Slide: Allows interaction and clarification, ensuring the audience fully grasps the presented materials.

8. Contact Information Slide: Provides follow-up information for further questions or networking.

Q. What are the 3 main types of presentation slides?

While there's no one-size-fits-all rule for making presentation slides, you can group them into three main categories:

Introduction and Closing Slides

These slides bookend your presentation. The introduction slide typically includes the title of your presentation, your name and any relevant introductory information. The closing slide summarizes key points, provides a conclusion and often includes contact information or a call to action.

Content Slides

Content slides make up the core of your presentation and contain the primary information you want to convey to your audience. They can include text, images, charts, graphs and other visual or textual elements supporting your presentation's message.

Transition Slides

Transition slides signal a change in topic or create a smooth flow between different sections of your presentation. They often feature a brief title or heading that previews the upcoming content. Transition slides help guide your audience through the presentation and make it easy to follow.

Q. What are the 4 types of presentation?

The four types of presentations are informative, instructional, persuasive and arousing.

1. Informative Presentations: These are used to educate the audience on a particular topic. They present facts, data and information to increase the audience's knowledge and understanding.

2. Instructional Presentations: These presentations provide step-by-step guidance or training on a specific task, process or concept. You can use this type of presentation for teaching or coaching purposes, emphasizing learning and development.

3. Persuasive Presentations: The primary goal of these presentations is to influence the listeners' attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. Use this presentation type when you want your audience to accept certain arguments or propositions.

4. Arousing Presentations: These presentations aim to evoke interest and awaken curiosity about the topic among the audience. They often aim to inspire, motivate or raise awareness about an issue.

Q. How do you make a 5-minute presentation interesting?

Creating an intriguing 5-minute presentation may be challenging due to the time constraint. Yet, you can deliver an impactful and engaging presentation with a focused approach and attention to detail.

Here are some of the ways to do it:

1. Focus on a single core message : Since you have limited time, choose a specific topic and stick to it. Present only the crucial information that will help the audience understand your point.

2. Engage from the start: Start your presentation with a compelling story, anecdote or a surprising fact. This will grab the audience's attention and spark curiosity.

3. Keep slides simple and visual: Avoid cluttered slides with too much text. Use visuals such as images, graphs or infographics to illustrate your points clearly and concisely.

4. Tell a story: A narrative structure engages the audience and helps them follow your message. Consider using metaphors or anecdotes to explain complex ideas.

5. Encourage questions or interaction: Since time is limited, you might opt for a brief Q&A session, ask a rhetorical question or request audience feedback for further discussion later.

6. Finish strong: Conclude with a powerful statement, call-to-action or takeaway summarizing your main point. Leave your audience with a lasting impression of your message.

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The number of slides you should have for a 20-minute presentation can vary depending on several factors, such as the complexity of the topic and the pace of your speech.

However, the general rule of thumb is to allocate at least 1-2 minutes per slide, which suggests 10-20 slides for a 20-minute presentation.

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The 5 5 5 rule is a framework that ensures your presentation is clear and remains engaging. A presentation should have no more than five words per line of text, five lines of text per slide and five slides that apply the first two rules in a row.

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Visual project management templates

Use these free PowerPoint and Excel templates to create unique, professional project visuals for your next stakeholder meeting.

• What is a project management template?

Effective project management is not solely about completing tasks as soon as the initiative kicks off, but also about carefully mapping out your strategy to save time and resources. Given that your project will be constantly shifting, a project management template will help you keep up with the changes that occur and increase the chances of successful project delivery.

A project management template is a reusable and pre-built project outline with placeholders that helps project managers document and set up various project activities without having to start from scratch every time, thus reducing rework. It provides a project pre-formatted structure by auto-populating details such as:

Dependencies;

• Why use a project management template?

Managing projects that come in all shapes and sizes is no easy task. In fact, it’s so difficult that almost two thirds of projects result in failure , mostly due to ineffective communication, poor project planning, and the lack of clear goals. Furthermore, starting work on a project from scratch can be very challenging so relying on project management templates is evidently beneficial for any project manager.

Using a project management template will help professionals:

Save time kicking off new projects and work;

Cover all important project steps;

Manage tasks smoothly from start to finish;

Align goals and priorities across teams;

Automate repetitive processes;

Achieve and maintain consistent quality;

Optimize processes and productivity over time;

Track progress and status of the project;

Accurately scope initiatives and allocate resources.

To sum things up, using project management templates will set you and your team up for repeatable success, while also making processes more efficient. Taking into account the many benefits that these visual tools bring to the table, we have put together a collection of free, customizable PowerPoint and Excel templates that you can use to create professional project plans and reviews that are also visually striking.

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Free PowerPoint and Excel templates for project planning

The right template is a mix of various ingredients and there are many aspects to take into consideration: your industry, company size, or project complexity. To help you get started quickly, we’ve put together a list of the best PowerPoint templates for project management  – from straightforward project plans to complex Gantt charts and strategic product roadmaps.

You can access these templates as Excel and PowerPoint files and customize them to fit the specific needs of your project. They’re free and you can download them directly, without the obligation to fill in any contact details.

For the PowerPoint templates, you can edit them manually by moving the shapes or use the Office Timeline  add-in to edit and update automatically. It plugs natively into PowerPoint so you can make your project visuals with just a few clicks and save them as your own personalized templates to use time and time again.

Timeline trackers and reports

• Milestone tracker template

Projects need to be managed on a timeline. Milestones are significant events or accomplishments that mark specific points or the completion of major phases or deliverables in a project. Project managers can use a milestone tracker to list their critical milestones and to monitor the performance of the project team against that timeline.

Tracking progress toward important events or specific points on a timescale is a good technique for monitoring the progress of a project and enables project managers to see if the project team is on track to deliver the final product or service on time and determine if any adjustments are necessary to stay on schedule.

Milestone tracker template for Excel

Milestone tracker templates for PowerPoint

• Project status report template

Project managers who want to inform team members, executives, and clients of where a project stands can illustrate and track the progression of all critical activities involved with the help of a project status report.

Project status reports list the key deliverables, developments and risks associated with a project and help measure the progress toward the completion of each objective.

Project status report template for Excel

Project status report for PowerPoint

• Project review template

Project reviews are usually conducted at the end of a project or a project phase to evaluate the current status, identify any lessons learned, and make recommendations for future projects. To help document and share the results of their reviews, Project managers can use review reports.

These project templates show a clear overview of completed, outstanding, and planned deliverables, while also including risk management details and financial information. This will make it easier for them to measure progress and clearly communicate key data that clients and executives want to know. Project review reports typically include project overview, performance analysis, recommendations, and conclusions.

Project review template for Excel

Project review template for PowerPoint

Gantt charts, roadmaps, swimlane charts

• Project plan template

Delivering a project requires detailed planning. Project plans should outline the scope, schedule, and resources needed to complete the project. They should also help monitor progress and identify problems so that project managers can adjust plans in time to ensure that the project stays on track.

To easily track how the project is progressing, project plans can also include a comparison between the estimated task dates and the actual ones.

Project plan template for Excel

Project plan template for PowerPoint

• Project schedule template

Effective project management requires a clear view of all the work associated with delivering a project on time. A project schedule enables professionals to efficiently manage their project by the hour and see exactly how much time is left to complete a task or if there is any work overdue.

The project schedule typically includes a list of all the tasks that need to be completed, their dependencies, the resources required to complete them, and the deadlines for completion.

Project schedule template for Excel

Project schedule template for PowerPoint

• Project tracker template

Project management requires that all scheduled work or tasks are tracked. A project tracker is a visual tool that can be used to track and compare the planned status versus the actual status of various key project parameters, for example each task’s progress against the original plan.

The tracker should include all tasks, milestones, deadlines, tasks’ status, the owner of the task, the percent complete and the planned duration versus actual duration.

Project tracker template for Excel

Project tracker template for PowerPoint

• Critical path tracker template

The critical path of a project is the longest sequence of tasks that must be completed from the Start to the Finish of a project. The tasks on the critical path are called critical activities because if they’re delayed, they will have a cascading effect on the project completion - the project completion will be delayed.

Project managers need to identify which tasks are dependent on preceding tasks. To do this they can use a critical path tracker which lists all the tasks in a project, the planned duration for each task and whether the task is dependent on another. It also helps identifying the most critical tasks and dependencies and understand how changes to one task might impact the overall project schedule. This way, project managers can plan the quickest path for completing their project and take corrective action to keep the project on track.

Critical path tracker template for Excel

Critical path tracker template for PowerPoint

• Sprint project tracker template

Agile projects require thorough sprint planning and management. A sprint is a short, time-boxed period, usually two to four weeks, during which a team works to complete a set of tasks or deliverables. A sprint project tracker is needed to track the progress of tasks during a sprint, to monitor and manage the sprint backlog, to assign tasks to team members, to identify potential issues or blockers and to communicate the progress of the sprint to stakeholders.

Sprint project trackers should clearly show what tasks are planned during each sprint, and should include the start date, finish date and duration of every task, and the percentage of completeness. Color codes can instantly show the tasks’ status.

Sprint project tracker template for Excel

Sprint project tracker template for PowerPoint

• Project budget template

A project budget planner-tracker is a tool used in project management to plan and manage the budget for a project and to track the expenses and financial performance of the project. This can include tracking actual expenses, comparing them to the budgeted amount, and adjusting the budget as needed. It can also include forecasting future expenses and revenues and identifying potential budget issues or opportunities.

Project managers and stakeholders can use a project budget tracker to gain a clear view of the financial status of the project and to make informed decisions about budget allocation and management.

Project budget template for Excel

Project budget template for PowerPoint

Frequently asked questions about visual project management templates

Find out below the answers to the most common questions on project management templates.

Does Excel have a project plan template?

As a staple program in many project managers’ toolkit, Microsoft Excel does offer a series of templates that you can use to outline your project plans. To get access to these pre-built samples, simply open the spreadsheet platform, go to New and browse through the gallery of available models.

If none of the preview examples suits your particular needs, try to refine your search by typing “project plan” or “project chart” in the search bar at the top of the New section and then pressing Enter . This will further filter Excel’s collection of pre-designed layouts from which you can choose a preferred one for your project plan. Double-click to select the project plan template you want to use and start customizing it with your own data.

Although providing a pre-made structure to start from, Excel’s native project plan templates are quite basic and mainly suited for the illustration of a rather simple input. In addition to their limited scope of use, these also require a significant amount of manual formatting to reach fairly reasonable project management visuals that can be included in business presentations.

To spare you from these time-consuming inconveniences, we’ve put together a varied range of free, ready-to-use Excel project management templates that you can easily customize to effectively visualize even complex project plans in an appealing and professional way.

Does Google have a project management template?

The short answer to this question is yes – yes, it does. However, the most accurate one is that Google actually offers some project management templates via its spreadsheet platform, Google Sheets. Currently, you can find only 4 in-built pre-formatted samples under the Project management category of the latter’s template gallery. To access these, follow the steps below:

Open Google Sheets.

Click the up-down arrow icon next to Template gallery at the top-right of the home screen.

Within the newly expanded gallery, scroll down to the Project management category.

Double-click to open any of the project management templates available under this section.

If you look for “Google project management templates” online, your search will lead you to other custom examples that have nevertheless been created with the same tool, that is Google Sheets. The bottom line is that all of these templates feature a standardized spreadsheet format, which can prove rather limiting and unsuitable when representing rich-data projects as the output can be dull, cluttered, and difficult to follow.

However, loyal fans of the table-layout that also want to save time and effort when planning a project can find many other ready-made and diversified templates on our dedicated page on project management in Excel . To explore more visual, dynamic, and flexible ways to convey your project data to executive audiences, check out our visual project management charts  page.

Does Word have a project template?

Primarily used for word-processing purposes, Microsoft Word does not have any incorporated visual project templates per se. Its only project-related samples come under the form of pre-formatted text and table documents and can be accessed by going to New from the Home screen, typing “project template” in the search box at the top, and hitting the Enter key.

However, those who want to get a more visual result can manually build various types of basic project management charts in Word through its SmartArt and Shapes tools. Depending on the kind of project visual you want to create, you can use Word’s range of graphics from the Shapes and SmartArt sections of the Insert tab.

To sum up, Microsoft Word does allow you to produce basic visuals for small-scale, personal projects by using its graphic tools and with some tedious manual formatting work. But the truth is that the text-editing platform is not a proper solution for professional visual project management  requirements. To discover more suitable, specialized, and effective alternatives to this end, please visit our project management tools  page.

What templates do you need for project management?

Successfully delivering a project often relies on performing a balancing act between strategical goal setting, Agile project planning , and effective communication of the steps necessary to achieve your deliverables. This explains the large variety of project management templates out there, with layouts and structures that depend on aspects such as the industry one operates in, company size, and project complexity. To choose the ones that best serve your purpose, you will thus need to look for samples that allow you to clearly and efficiently:

Create work schedules.

Assign tasks.

Manage costs.

Track project status.

To make it easier for you, we’ve compiled a whole collection of free PowerPoint and Excel project management templates that you can use to create plans, organize tasks, and track overall progress visually.

How do I write a simple project template?

There are no hard-and-fast rules for a simple project template, however, we recommend that you consider the following aspects when creating one:

The project objectives and goals;

The final deliverables;

Summary of tasks to be undertaken;

Critical milestones along the way of your project’s lifecycle;

An overview of the project timeline (due dates of your milestones and tasks).

Once these elements have been defined, you can then proceed to choosing the best way to illustrate them. Learn more about the various types of project management charts  that can be used to visually represent your data or choose any of our ready-made free project templates to get started faster.

A project management template or PM template is a pre-formatted sheet, document or graphic with placeholders that you can replace with your own data in order to document various project activities such as:

Setting goals;

Structuring the overall work breakdown;

Assigning tasks;

Managing costs;

Allocating resources;

Tracking progress and status.

What is the best Excel template for project management?

Despite being frequently used in project data processing and reporting, Microsoft Excel is not the most effective tool a project manager can opt for in today’s increasingly visual project management environment. Not only because it offers a rather inflexible format in which to structure your project information, but also because of its limited project management templates that you could use to save time in organizing and planning your initiatives. To find and access any of these pre-built samples, simply open the spreadsheet platform, click on the New tab and type “project” in the search bar at the top. Here are the few results that will be returned:

Tracker template;

Gantt chart template;

To-do list template;

Status report template;

Budget template;

Project plan template.

As you are likely to find out on your own, these can yield a rather basic output and prove useful only for simple projects plans. However, if you want to learn how to maximize Excel’s productivity in this respect, check out our dedicated page on project management in Excel . Those who want to explore more specialized solutions for project planning can do so on our visual project management tools  page.

How do templates help project management?

Templates are one of the best tools to use in project management because they:

Enable project managers to set up tasks, reports, and other important details without having to start from scratch every time, thus reducing rework.

Allow users to produce individual views and reports that reflect specific information when needed, if the template is customizable.

Ensure that every relevant project participant starts with the correct structure and format.

Lower the risk of essential information being missed.

Help create a standardized process to keep recurring work consistent.

With such positive outcomes to benefit from, what’s not to like about templates? Get inspiration from our collection of free, customizable project management templates and use any of them to successfully kick off a new project.

To explore even more templates that suit a wide range of project management needs, you can try out the lightweight PowerPoint project planner add-in called Office Timeline. Coming with a rich gallery of pre-built project plan examples that you can easily customize as presentation-ready PowerPoint slides, the tool also helps you create and save your very own samples that you can use for future work.

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The Top 100 Free PowerPoint Templates You Can Download Right Now

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• Corporate Data Presentation Template Pack (9 slides)

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• Corporate PowerPoint Template Pack (14 slides)

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• Finance PowerPoint Template Mini-Pack (5 slides)

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• Copywriter Pitch Deck PowerPoint Template (21 slides)

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• Budget PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Solid budgeting skills are necessary to achieve any kind of financial success. Without it, you’ll be blowing your money on unnecessary expenses. That being said, use this template pack to present your budget and your project expenses (and savings) in a visually attractive manner.

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If you’re on the lookout for investors to help fund your new digital currency, then this template pack is for you. This will help you outline your proposal and ICO options to potential investors. You can even include a detailed forecast on how your digital currency is going to perform in the future.

• Light Corporate PowerPoint Template Pack (14 slides)

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• 26 Slide Corporate Template Pack (26 slides)

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• Consulting Presentation Template (21 slides)

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• Business Presentation Template Pack (20 slides)

This template pack will help you get through most types of business presentations. It includes an organizational chart, a mind map, various diagrams, and even a social media analysis slide.

• Freelance Marketer Sales Deck Template (10 slides)

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• Management Consulting PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

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• Project Management PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Good teamwork is necessary for project management success. Make sure everyone on your team is on the same page. Use the slides in this template pack to let your team know what your project’s goals and deliverables are. Inform them what the project life cycle is, and so much more.

• Digital Marketing PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

This template pack is perfect for digital marketers. There are several slides to help you outline your various digital marketing strategies.

• Social Media Analysis PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

Use this template pack to present the results of your social media analysis. Identify your target market, plan your content, and analyze the competition. Figure out how you can use various social media channels to your advantage.

• Team Slides PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

Acknowledging your team’s hard work is important. Use this template to give your teammates special recognition and boost their morale. Add their photographs. Write down their roles and most notable contributions.

• Business Roadmap PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Present your company’s roadmap or strategy to success using this template pack. Let your shareholders and investors in on your strategy. This way, they’ll feel excited about what’s to come!

• Academic Presentation PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Got an academic presentation coming up? Well, check out this template pack and see if it fits your requirements. To begin with, you can list down your group mates and draw a timeline of your project. Also, add charts and diagrams for whatever your presentation is all about! The template is not limited for student use – even teachers can use it!

• Pyramid Chart PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

We’ve created several pyramid charts and packaged it into a single template pack just for you. Slides include the 5-step flat pyramid, triangles pyramid, 3 stages pyramid, and more!

• Balanced Scorecard PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Creating a balanced scorecard presentation from scratch is time-consuming. If you use this template, all you need to worry about is replacing the placeholder text with your content. It’s got an overview slide of the scorecard as well as individual slides for the four different perspectives. These are (1) learning and growth, (2)internal business processes, (3) customer, and (4) financial perspectives.

• CSR Analysis PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

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• Stakeholder Analysis PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Use this template pack to present the results of your in-depth stakeholder analysis. Slides include the matrix slide, key factors slide, and stakeholder analysis cycle slide.

• Competitor Analysis PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

Want to put your business ahead of the competition? Then do a thorough competitor analysis. Use this template pack to present your results in the best possible way!

• Corporate Gantt Chart Template Pack (9 slides)

There are plenty of Gantt chart PPT templates on the web. But there aren’t too many that are specifically designed for corporate presentations. Download this template pack to share your plans and schedules for your corporate projects.

• Product Hunt Pitch Deck Template (24 slides)

If you’re looking for the ultimate pitch deck template, this is it. It’s professionally designed and data-driven. You’ve got all the slides you need to successfully pitch your startup to potential investors!

• Soft Consulting Template Pack (10 slides)

Sure, there are other consulting templates in this round-up article. But, this is one of the few ones that use a ‘soft’ color palette. If you want a professional template that’s easy on the eyes, then you need to download this right now.

• Corporate Package of 20 Slides Template Pack (20 slides)

First impressions last. This is why you always want to make a good impression on your audience. Use the graphs, tables, maps, and charts in this template pack to introduce your company or brand. You can get your own business presentation design created by the team at 24Slides, very similar to this template!

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• Block Chain Data PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

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• Matrix Chart PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

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• Stair Diagram PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

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• Organizational Chart PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

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• Flow Chart PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

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• Tables PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

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• Pie Chart PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

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• Venn Diagram PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

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• Data Driven Financial Templates (11 slides)

Analyzing financial data can be a complicated process all on its own. This is why we’ve created this template pack for you. So you can focus on perfecting your presentation and not have to worry about creating your PPT slides from scratch!

• Dashboard Template Pack (10 slides)

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• Financial Pie Graphs PowerPoint Templates (3 slides)

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• Financial Data Driven PowerPoint Templates (3 slides)

In addition to the financial pie charts in #45, you may also want to use this template pack for your financial presentations. We’ve included a data-driven column chart slide, a line-chart slide, and financial data-driven bar charts.

• Presentation Template for Revenue Data Template Pack (3 slides)

Presenting revenue data doesn’t have to be complicated. Simply replace the placeholder text with your data, and you’re good to go!

• Corporate Sales Report Presentation Template (16 slides)

Use the slides from this template to track your company’s sales and profits. You can present monthly, quarterly, or yearly sales data in your report.

• Risk Matrix Presentation Templates (3 slides)

Share your risk assessment with your audience using this template pack. The 3 template slides included are 3D creative risk matrix slide, professional risk matrix slide, and chess risk matrix slide.

• Research & Development Data Templates (3 slides)

Impress your audience and use this template to present the different stages of your R&D process. You can also use a pie chart and stacked area chart to visualize your progress.

Top Free Organization and Planning PowerPoint Templates

• Creative Timeline PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

We’ve featured other timeline templates in this article, but this just may be one of the best-looking ones. Check it out and give your audience a visual treat during your presentation.

• 7S Framework PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

If you’re doing a presentation on 7S framework , then you should download this template. It has all the slides you need to present the 7 key points in the framework. These are Strategy, Structure, Skill, Staff, System, Style and Shared Value slides.

• Timeline PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

There’s no such thing as too many timeline templates for your presentations. If you’re looking for a green-themed template pack, then check out this timeline template. It includes slides like a horizontal daily timeline, vertical timeline by quarter, and yearly timeline with comments slide.

• Explaining the “Who and Where” Presentation Template Pack (10 slides)

Efficiency is key to an organization’s success. Use this template pack to clearly define everyone’s roles and responsibilities. Make sure you assign the right tasks to the right team members.

• Explaining the ‘What’ Templates (10 slides)

There’s no better template pack to explain to everyone what’s going on in your organization. You can use the flow chart slide, matrix distribution slide, and puzzle pieces slide for your presentation.

• Explaining ‘How’ Presentation Template (10 slides)

This PPT template pack aims to help you present your answers to the question, “How?” For example, you can answer questions like, “How to reach your goals?” or “How to maximize profits and reduce expenses?”

• Strategy PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

The right strategy can catapult your business to new heights. Use this template pack to show your audience how you intend to go about achieving success. Slides include goal breakdown, market variables, as well as a target and actions slide.

• Project Analysis PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

Improve your project’s chances for success. Use this template pack to identify your project’s weak points. Use the project flowchart slide, high-level statistics slide, and 2×2 matrix slide to assess your project.

• Halloween PowerPoint Template (16 slides)

Download this fun and innovative template pack for your Halloween-themed PowerPoint presentations. Introduce your team, your services, and your pricing structure using this free template.

• Scrum Process PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Download this free template pack for presentations that tackle the scrum process / framework. It includes slides like scrum process flow slide, scrum framework at a glance slide, daily scrum meeting slide, and more.

• Growth Process PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Share your company’s growth strategy using this template pack. There’s an overview slide, a growth process factor slide, Ansoff matrix growth process slide, and more!

• Planning Slides PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

Every organization – no matter how small – goes through a planning process. To share your plans for the future, use this template pack. Impress your audience with your professionally-designed slides.

• Waterfall Diagram PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

It can be pretty difficult to share numerical data in a presentation. But with the Waterfall template, you’ll simply need to delete the placeholder text and plug in your data. You’ll have a ready-made presentation in minutes!

• Agenda PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Increase your team’s productivity and efficiency by using this template pack in your next meeting. Stop beating around the bush and let everyone know what’s on the agenda.

• Timeline Pictures PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

Use this template pack if you want to stand out from similar-looking timelines. Instead of using plain text or the usual icons, this template allows you to quickly insert images and pictures to your slides.

• PEST Diagram PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Make better business decisions by conducting a PEST analysis. When you’re ready to present your results, use this template pack. It includes a PEST diagram overview slide as well as individual slides for the 4 factors (political, economic, social, and technological).

• Life Cycle Diagram PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

You can use this versatile template pack for product life cycle presentations. There are different diagrams that depict the 5 stages of a product’s life cycle. Feel free to use the slides you think will impress your audience the most.

• Presentation Checklist Template Pack (10 slides)

Checklists or to-do lists will help you and your team accomplish a lot. The good news is you’re not limited to just using this template pack for your presentation. You can also print it out, so no one ever forgets the tasks assigned to them.

• Organizational Chart Templates (10 slides)

These aren’t your run-of-the-mill organizational charts. This 10-slide template pack includes horizontal and vertical hierarchical org charts. A curved vertical line org chart slide is also included.

• Circle Diagrams Presentation Templates (10 slides)

When presenting circular flows (for example, the process of exchanging goods and services), it’s best to use circle diagrams. We’ve included different kinds of circle diagrams in this template pack. So, it’s highly unlikely you’re going to run out of options!

• HR Presentation Slide Templates (10 slides)

From the agenda slide to the human resource plan and meet the HR team slide, this template pack covers all your HR presentation needs. Check it out right now!

• Management Teamwork PowerPoint Template (3 slides)

Use this presentation template to assign tasks to your team members. We’ve also included a handy teamwork flow slide so everyone can see the big picture!

• Science Gantt PowerPoint Template (3 slides)

Download this template pack if you need to present Gantt charts for your Science presentation. Slides feature a monthly, tri-monthly and annual Gantt charts.

• Before After Presentation Slides (3 slides)

If you’re looking for comparison slides, or those that show the ‘before’ and ‘after,’ then you should definitely check out this template pack. You can compare marketing, sales and factory performance using this template.

• Women Leadership PowerPoint Template (3 slides)

The slides included in this template pack use soft, feminine colors. It’s perfect for presenting the female leaders in your organization. You can add their photos, short bio as well as their accomplishments.

Top Free Text-based PowerPoint Templates

• Investor Relations Presentation Template (3 slides)

Use this template pack when pitching ideas to potential investors. The slides are professionally designed so you don’t need to do much editing apart. Just replace the dummy text with your ideas!

• Generic Text Slides Templates (3 slides)

Use this template pack to supplement the other slides in your presentation. The template includes a yearly events slide, team members slide, and an area chart slide.

• Text Slides Sales Presentation Template (3 slides)

Download this template pack for your next sales presentation. It includes a sales text slide, a sales text column slide, and a sales text and image slide.

• Digital Marketing Presentation Templates (3 slides)

If you want to succeed online, then you need to master the art of digital marketing. Use this template pack to explain to your audience what digital media marketing is all about. Show them how they can possibly use it to their advantage.

• Android Mobile Presentation Template Pack (6 slides)

Use this template pack to promote your Android mobile app to both users and investors. Highlight the main features of your app and any problems it aims to solve.

• General Agenda Presentation Template (3 slides)

If you’re in need of a stylish agenda template, then look no further than this pack. It’s only got 3 slides, but it should be enough for most agenda meetings.

Top Free Maps PowerPoint Templates

• Maps of the World PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

If you’re in need of a high-quality world map template, then you need to download this pack right now. Slides include several world maps, USA map, Australia map, Africa map, and a Brazil map.

• Asia Map PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

Asia is the largest continent in the world. If you need to show a map of Asia in your PowerPoint, then this is the right template for you. We’ve included an Asia map pie chart slide, an Asia map transport and logistics slide, and an Asia map steps slide.

• USA Map PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

If your company operates solely in the United States, then you should check out this template for your next presentation. This is helpful if you want to showcase your key statistics in various cities or states. You can also give more info about your key operations and main offices.

• South America Map PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

This special template pack includes several maps of the entire South American continent. Use this to highlight key places and statistics in South America whether it be for business or academic presentations.

• North American Map PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

From Canada down to the USA and Mexico, this North American template pack will help you showcase your company’s presence in this continent. Compare and contrast the different countries. It will also help you figure out the most profitable locations for your business.

• Europe Map PowerPoint Template (9 slides)

Use the free European map template to highlight some key info and statistics about your European offices and stores. We’ve included a handy pie charts slide, a delivery and shipment slide, a company HQ and retail stores slide, and more.

• Australia Maps PowerPoint Template (3 slides)

If you don’t know it already, Australia is not just a country. It’s also the world’s smallest continent. This free template pack is great for companies that operate in cities and states down under.

Top Free Miscellaneous PowerPoint Template

• Fashion PowerPoint Template Pack (10 slides)

For your fashion-industry presentations, you need a stylish and visually attractive template. This template pack doesn’t only look good, but it also offers a lot of value. You can present the yearly trend and the past timelines in your industry. You can even compare various fashion metrics.

• Creative 2019 Calendar PowerPoint Template (13 slides)

You can use this stylish calendar template pack for your PowerPoint presentation. Or you can print it out and hang it up on your wall. Either way, you’re not going to be disappointed. This pack is truly one of the best-designed calendar templates on 24Slides!

• Time Slide Deck PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

We’ve only got 24 hours in a day. If you want to make the most of your time and be as productive as possible, then you may want to plan out every hour of the day. This template pack includes slides like the hour breakdown slide, time allocation slide, and time efficiency slide.

• Energy PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

Use this PowerPoint template to explain the different sources of energy . We’ve also included a statistics slide as well as technical details slide. Inform your audience about the different energy services you offer!

• Real Estate PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

The real estate industry is booming. It’s also highly competitive. Use this template pack to stand out from your competitors and get property owners to use your services. Likewise, you can also use this template to welcome potential buyer. This way, they’ll know what to expect when they purchase a new house or property.

• Health Care PowerPoint Template (10 slides)

It’s our goal to help you promote your healthcare services to the right audience. We’ve included a human anatomy diagram, a treatment lifecycle slide, and more, in this awesome template pack.

• Bachelor Thesis Presentation Pack (10 slides)

Your thesis is the most important academic paper you’re going to write in college or university. Download this free template pack for your thesis presentation. Spend the majority of your time practicing your speech instead of creating your slides from scratch!

Top Free Presentation Icons PowerPoint Template

• Basic Icons PowerPoint Template (3 slides)

These icons will look great in any of the free template packs I’ve listed in this article. Note that these are vector-based icons. So, you can resize and edit them according to your liking.

• Financial Icons PowerPoint Template (3 slides)

There are several financial templates that made it to this top 100 free PowerPoint templates list. Use these icons in conjunction with those templates or even in slides you’ve made from scratch!

• Corporate Color Icon Pack (1 slide)

There are 16 free icons included in this template pack. As you can see, these icons are universal in nature and are easily understood. Feel free to download and use the icons however you see fit!

• Strategy Presentation Icons (3 slides)

Spice up your next agenda meeting or strategy presentation. Use any or all these icons in your presentation slides!

• General PowerPoint Icons Template (3 slides)

Download these icons for your next business or academic presentation. The icons come in 3 different styles: black-color filled, yellow-color filled, and green-color filled, so you’ve got quite a few choices for your presentation!

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How to Make a Timeline in PowerPoint (Template Included)

Timelines allow organizations to estimate how long it will take to execute a project, no matter what industry they’re in. This is done by identifying all the tasks that will be executed, estimating their duration and then determining their start and end dates.

Besides tracking time and scheduling tasks, project timelines also allow project managers to know exactly when resources such as labor, materials and equipment will be needed, which is important for completing projects on time and estimating costs accurately.

Because of their importance for project planning, there’s a large number of free and paid software tools that can help make project timelines. In this blog, we’ll explain how to create a timeline in PowerPoint.

Why Make a Timeline in PowerPoint?

One of the main advantages of using PowerPoint to make a project timeline is that most people are familiar with this software and it can be easier to use than other Microsoft products such as Word, Excel or Project.

Along the same lines, PowerPoint is available in most organizations which makes it a cost-effective alternative to project management software. This also makes it a file format that’s easy to understand for external project stakeholders such as clients.

Unfortunately, PowerPoint wasn’t designed for project management and lacks the project planning, scheduling and monitoring features that specialized software such as ProjectManager can offer. ProjectManager offers multiple tools for making and monitoring project timelines, including Gantt charts, kanban boards, real-time data project dashboards and much more. Get started with ProjectManager for free today.

While PowerPoint may not be the software organizations need for managing projects, it’s still ideal for making simple timelines for project management presentations. As the team is likely already familiar with PowerPoint, it can be a positive solution for those who aren’t ready to upgrade to more powerful and dynamic software.

PowerPoint Timeline Template

This free PowerPoint timeline template is ideal for explaining to project team members their tasks, their expected duration, and the due dates for their completion during a project management presentation such as a kickoff meeting or a project status meeting.

How to Make a Timeline in PowerPoint in 3 Steps

Let’s now review the step-by-step process of creating a timeline in PowerPoint. If you don’t want to make a timeline from scratch, you can instead download our free PowerPoint timeline template from our project management templates library. We’ve broken the template into sections for each employee and their tasks, all on an easy-to-read timeline.

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1. Define the Time Frame the Project Timeline Will Cover

Timelines may span across multiple timeframes, such as a month, a year, or even longer. Usually, businesses and nonprofit organizations employ yearly timelines divided into quarters as this is the preferred timeframe for business planning and reporting. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll make a monthly timeline to spread the workload of a small project team . To get started choose a blank page layout, which will facilitate the next steps.

When the table appears, select all the columns in the top row, right-click them and then select “Merge Cells.” This will combine all these cells and this merged cell will work as the heading for the timeline. For this example, we’ll enter the name of the month and year. Then enumerate the bottom row cells to show the day of the month.

Once you’ve completed the steps above, the timeline should look like this.

2. List Team Members and The Tasks They’re Assigned to Complete

Now, repeat the process of inserting a table, but this time it will be a two-column table. The cell in the top left corner will be used to identify the team member who will be completing project tasks , and the rows under it will be used to list the activities they’re responsible for. Then the size of the column to the right needs to be adjusted as shown below.

For these two task list tables, we used two columns and five rows, but you might add more rows depending on your team’s workload .

3. Add Project Tasks to the PowerPoint Timeline

Now it’s time to add bars to represent project tasks, their start and end dates and durations. To do so, simply choose a shape from the top menu. In this case, we’ll use a rectangle with rounded corners, as this shape is typically used in Gantt charts , the most commonly used project scheduling tool. Then start adding these shapes to show the tasks that each of your team members will complete as shown below.

Congratulations, you’ve just created a PowerPoint timeline template your organization can use to plan its projects and analyze workload .

However, as stated above, PowerPoint can help make a basic timeline but doesn’t offer the planning, scheduling and tracking features needed to manage tasks, processes or projects. If you’re looking for project management software to help create detailed timelines, try ProjectManager instead.

ProjectManager’s Gantt Chart Is Better Than a PowerPoint Timeline

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that’s designed to manage projects from start to end. This involves making timelines, assigning tasks to team members, tracking the cost of resources and helping project managers monitor how resources are being allocated. Let’s review some of its key project planning and scheduling features.

Make Interactive Project Timelines with Multiple Tools

ProjectManager’s online Gantt chart maker is ideal for making project timelines that show much more than just the due dates and duration of tasks. With this robust project scheduling tool, project managers can link task dependencies, identify the critical path, allocate resources and compare cost estimates against actual project costs. Best of all, it allows users to create their own columns to track unique variables about project tasks.

Then once a project timeline has been created using the Gantt chart, the tasks that make it up can be managed using other tools such as kanban boards , project calendars, and task lists. These allow project managers and team members to visualize the project timeline from different perspectives and manage work with their favorite tool.

Track Project Timelines with Real-Time Data

After making a timeline it’s important to have tools to track the progress of the team that will execute the work to ensure the project will be completed within the planned time frame. ProjectManager’s Gantt chart syncs with project management dashboards that show the percentage of completion of tasks, resource utilization and cost tracking information, which helps project managers check whether their teams are on track to meet the project on time and under budget. There are also a variety of real-time data reports that can be generated in minutes.

Balance Your Team’s Workload and Track Costs

ProjectManager offers a workload management chart to visualize how tasks are being allocated among team members, which is very helpful when making a timeline. With this tool they can determine who is over or underallocated, so they can distribute work evenly. This helps make a realistic timeline. Additionally, ProjectManager’s timesheets automatically log the work hours of employees based on the tasks they’re assigned to in the Gantt chart and other project planning tools.

Related Content

We’ve created dozens of blogs, templates and guides to help project managers master the art of making project timelines. Here are a few of them.

• Project Timeline Software – Create a Project Timeline Online
• Project Timeline Maker: How to Make a Project Timeline Online
• Project Timeline: The Ultimate Guide (with Examples)
• Free Excel Timeline Template
• How to Create a Timeline in Excel (Free Templates Included)
• Free Google Sheets Timeline Template: Create Plans Online

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Trying to figure out how to use PowerPoint? This PowerPoint tutorial for beginners will help get you started. Learn basic tools as well as how to use PowerPoint templates in this PowerPoint beginner's guide. 

In this PowerPoint tutorial for beginners, I'll help you get up and running in Microsoft PowerPoint. Ever wanted to know how to use PowerPoint templates? You'll learn how to use PowerPoint to build a presentation in less time than you ever thought possible. We'll also cover some PowerPoint best practices to make sure you're doing things the easy way.

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Microsoft PowerPoint is undoubtedly the most popular app used to give presentations. You're likely to see PowerPoint presentations being used for everything from presentations at the world's largest companies to grade schoolteachers sharing lessons.

PowerPoint is often the butt of the joke. Many decry PowerPoint as boring and a crutch for poorly prepared speakers.

Only a bad carpenter blames the tools. And like any tool, PowerPoint is incredibly useful when used properly. Use it as an aid on your speaking engagements to build comfort and drive points visually with your audience.

In this tutorial, we're going to focus on working inside of PowerPoint to build a presentation. This PowerPoint guide has everything you need to get comfortable in the app. To master the app, we'll talk about and cover the most common steps a rookie PowerPoint user needs to know.

Here are the key actions you'll need to take to build a PowerPoint presentation:

• You'll need to add  slides,  the individual pages in the presentation.
• You'll add  content  to the slides, such as text boxes, images, charts and graphs.
• Change themes and styles  to make your presentation look professional and fit the occasion at hand.
• Prepare presentation aids like  Speaker Notes  and Presenter View to help you feel comfortable with presenting.

We'll cover each of these in this PowerPoint tutorial so that you can get up and running quickly. 

To get up to speed with PowerPoint, it helps to understand the layout of the app. Let's walk through the key menu options so that you can learn PowerPoint quickly. If you understand the way that the app is laid out, you're likely to find any feature you need quickly.

This part of the PowerPoint guide will focus on the interface. Note that these previews are in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac OS, but the same will apply for PC.

1. The Ribbon

The ribbon menu is found across many of Microsoft's apps, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It lives above the main area of the application. In this example, "Home" is the selected tab in the Ribbon.

The ribbon contains a series of tabs that you can switch between. Each of these have a unique set of tools to work with your presentation differently. When you switch tabs on the ribbon, you'll see new buttons and options to change your presentation:

• Home . A general-purpose collection of the most common tools that you'll use in PowerPoint.
• Insert . An all-in-one tool to add every imagine-able type of content, such as tables, pictures, charts, video, and more.
• Draw. Use this tab to draw elements in your presentation.
• Design . Controls the look and feel of your presentation with theme and style settings.
• Transitions . Add animations when you switch slides.
• Animations . Controls the order and style that objects will enter or exit your slide with.
• Slide Show . Control settings related to the way your presentation appears when sharing it with an audience.
• Review. Check spelling, check accessibility, and leave comments on your presentation here.
• View. You can choose multiple ways to view your work from this tab. 
• Record. Record video, audio, or take a screenshot here.
• Acrobat. You can create PDF files using Adobe Acrobat from this tab.
• Tell Me. Click this to ask a question—it's an easy access help space.

Now that you understand the layout, you've got a better idea of how you can jump to the feature you need. Let's dive a bit deeper into how you can use several of these key tabs.

2. The Home Tab

Use it for: a general selection of the most popular tools in PowerPoint.

I usually stay on the Home tab when I'm working in PowerPoint. The reason is because it's got practically every tool you need. From adding a new slide to changing text and paragraph settings, the Home tab is the default for most users.

3. The Insert Tab

When you're working on adding content to a slide, the  Insert  tab has every possible tool to add new content to a slide. Choose one of these types of objects to add it to the slide.

PowerPoint has a variety of views that are simply different ways to work with the same presentation. Change the view to get a different perspective on your content.

Use views for a different way to edit and build your PowerPoint presentation.

In the screenshot below, you can see the difference between the default  Normal  view and  Slide Sorter  view. Normal view shows each slide front and center. Slide Sorter view creates thumbnails that you can drag and drop to reorder the presentation. 

Normal View in Microsoft PowerPoint

Slide Sorter View in Microsoft PowerPoint

5. The Design Tab

An attractive presentation can really grab your audience's attention. We use themes and styles in PowerPoint to add visual appeal to the presentation, and the  Design  tab really controls these settings.

On the Design tab, click one of the themes to restyle the presentation. Or try out a different Style thumbnail to overhaul the color theme.

We've tackled the interface of PowerPoint, so you should be feeling comfortable with how to get around the app. Now, let's talk about the actions you'll find yourself using repeatedly and how you can do that in PowerPoint. Whether you want to know how to use PowerPoint templates or how to build a presentation from scratch, these will be handy.

1. How to Add Slides

Think of  slides  as the individual units in your presentation that you can fill with content. To insert a new slide, go to the  Insert  tab on PowerPoint's ribbon. Then, click on the  New Slide  button to add a new slide to your presentation.

Each of the thumbnails that you'll see on the sidebar represents a slide. Then, you'll add content to each slide.

There's no practical limit to the number of slides that your PowerPoint file can contain. But you should consider how many slides it actually takes to make your point. It's often the 

2. How to Add Content

Content is what defines each slide. PowerPoint accommodates a wide range of content like text, graphs, tables, charts, and more.

The easiest way to add content is to start off by choosing a  Layout,  which you can choose from the  Home  tab. This PowerPoint template comes with premade layouts we can choose from too.

These layouts have content boxes that are easy to add your own content to. Simply choose a layout, and then start adding your content.

3. How to Choose a Theme and Style

After you build out your presentation's content, it's a great idea to think about adding visual style. For this, you'll jump over to the  Design  tab, and click on one of the thumbnails for a theme. Choosing a new theme in this PowerPoint template made it easy to switch from an orange to a green theme. Check it out. 

Using a PowerPoint theme is the preferred alternative to adding backgrounds, color and type styles to each slide. Changing the theme typically will adjust the entire presentation simultaneously. This greatly reduces the time involved with building a presentation.

With just these three steps, you've got the repeatable sequence of actions needed to build a presentation. 

With every creative app I've ever learned, there are always those insider tricks of the trade that you learn many months later. They make you wish that you had known them all along and think about the many hours you wasted on the learning curve.

PowerPoint is no exception to this rule. It's especially important that you can cut to the chase when you're rushing to prepare for your presentation.

The best way to save time on your presentation is to start with a pre-built PowerPoint theme .  And you can find those on Envato Elements, which is an unlimited download service for creatives.

Discover  simple PowerPoint template designs with powerful features on Envato Elements. The right premium PPT template  will help you make a great presentation quickly. 

Browse through these  simple professional presentation designs  that you can use today:  

Now, most of the files that you'll grab from the Elements PPTX themes will appear to be finished presentations. You might be wondering how to use these pre-built presentations for your own needs.

Curious about how to use PowerPoint templates? To use Elements themes, it's really all about cutting it down to the slide designs that you'll use. A premium theme is really about the ideas  that are included as part of it. Simply use these ideas as starting points that you can add your own content to.

Again, the value of Elements is that you can download as many files as you want while you're a subscriber. And if you stop subscribing, you'll still have the right to use the creative assets you grabbed. It's much faster than building every slide from scratch.

When you contemplate how to use PowerPoint, don’t imagine building slide decks from scratch. That’s where premium PPT templates come in. They take the hard work out of using PowerPoint. 

You can take advantage of designer styles in a simple format. That’s the ultimate PowerPoint lesson to take to heart. Let’s look at just how easy it is to customize premium PPT templates in this quick PowerPoint training tutorial!

If you want to follow along, download the beautiful Agio PowerPoint template from Envato Elements.

Let's get started:

1. Choose Slides for Your Presentation

Premium PowerPoint PPT templates often include hundreds of handcrafted slides. For you, it’s best to select only a handful to build a slide deck. In PowerPoint, find Slide Sorter on the View tab. 

In Slide Sorter view, click and drag on the slide thumbnails to reorder them. Hold down Shift , click, and press Delete to remove unwanted slides. Jump back and start working by clicking Normal on the View tab.

2. Add Your Own Text

The PowerPoint basics include text and images. Adding custom text is one of the easiest and most common edits to make. 

Pre-built layouts include text boxes already arranged on the slide. To add your own words, highlight the contents of any text box. Then, simply start typing. Repeat throughout the presentation. 

3. Add Images

Wondering how to add PowerPoint presentation images? The easiest way is to turn to premium templates with image placeholders. Identify them by finding the image icons on a given slide. Jump to where images are stored on your computer. 

Then, simply drag and drop them onto the placeholder. Not only will all your photos import automatically, they’ll also size and scale to fit perfectly!

4. Change Object Colors

Changing theme colors is a fast way to adjust the visual look of your slides. For example, change object colors to add a bit of contrast. 

To get started, click on any object, like a shape, to select it. Choose Format at the top menu, to view your formatting options. Try Format Object to open the Format Pane .

In the Format Pane, you can choose things like a new Fill Color for this shape. 

5. Customize Fonts

No Microsoft PowerPoint tutorial would be complete without customizing fonts. Sometimes, it’s easy to overlook text as a design element, but with a few quick edits you can make your words really stand out. 

Highlight a block of text, then go up to the Font section of the Home tab. You’ll see drop downs to change the font style, size, and color. After that, add quick effects like bold letters, italics, and more!

The content and design will vary greatly from one presentation next. But, no matter what the goal of your presentation is, there are common tools that every presenter can benefit from using. We've developed PowerPoint lessons for those tools.

Let's focus on the most valuable tools for speakers in this PowerPoint tutorial. I always mention these tools as a way to build confidence and comfort for presenters.

1. Speaker Notes

Forget writing out note cards or keeping a printed outline nearby. Speaker notes are a way to add the things you need to say to each slide.

Speaker notes are added to each individual slide, and the best way to add them is from  Normal  view. Click on  Notes  below the presentation area and type your slide-specific notes.

Speaker notes will show up in printed copies of your presentation. So, it's easier to build them into PowerPoint instead of scribbling note cards you may lose.

2. Presenter View

Another feature that's a must-use is Presenter View , which is perfect for two screen setups while presenting. While your audience will see the presentation you've built on the projector or LCD screen, you'll have your own private view with speaker notes, upcoming slides, and more.

Turn on Presenter View from the slideshow tab by clicking  Use Presenter View.

Check out a full guide below on getting the most from Presenter View:

3. Spelling and Grammar Check

There's nothing worse than missing a key typo before you give your presentation. To avoid this problem, it's a great help to run a spelling and grammar check before you give your presentation.

To check for common spelling issues, simply jump to the  Review  tab and click Spelling . PowerPoint will check for the most common issues and allow you to correct them as needed.

4. Insert Multimedia

You can use multimedia in your PowerPoint presentations, and they can really enhance the experiences. Remember, you can find these tools in the Ribbon, via Insert . For example, how about inserting a short audio clip of a quote or maybe a short video relevant to your topic? If you'd like to make these additions, Insert makes it very easy to do.

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5. Add Bullet Points 

How you organize your content can make a huge difference—both for your audience and for you, as the presenter. Presenting a long passage of text can be difficult and even boring for the viewer. Consider breaking your content up into easy to read and easy to digest bullet points. 

PowerPoint makes this easy. When you edit your text, select Home in the Ribbon. There, again, you'll see your text options. Need some extra help with bullet points? Check out this easy-to-follow walkthrough:

6. Transitions and Animations

PowerPoint has so many different options, when it comes to transitions and animations. You can have specific transitions from slide to slide. You can animate specific elements in your presentations.

Looking the PowerPoint Ribbon, remember to turn to the Animations section. There, you can find a host of options that you can apply to your presentation.

Never used these tools before? Check out these walkthroughs. They'll show you how it's done.

In this PowerPoint tutorial for beginners, you’ve learned how to use PowerPoint presentation templates. We walked through a quick PowerPoint lesson to customize them. But you may be wondering: is that enough to deliver a winning PowerPoint presentation? 

Part of PowerPoint training comes from adopting the tips and tricks used by the best presenters. Follow these, and you’ll have a happy (and engaged) audience every time!

1. Have a Clear Objective

Let’s face it: we’ve all endured lengthy, boring PowerPoint presentations that seem to drift without a clear purpose. When you build your own PowerPoint, start with a goal in mind. Typically, that goal will be to inform or persuade an audience. It pays to outline that goal in advance and work towards your objective with a series of clear and concise slides.

It may sound daunting, but you can learn the technique in moments with our full PowerPoint training to help build persuasive slide decks:

2. Illustrate Concepts With Infographics

A key PowerPoint lesson for beginners is this: never get bogged down trying to talk through concepts. Visual aids are essential, and audiences demand them today. Infographics are a successful presenter’s best friend. Infographics combine information and graphics to create stunning visuals. 

Learn to build them yourself. Or sample from the very best pre-built PPT templates today in our infographic-centric set of PowerPoint instructions:

3. Be Subtle Animations and Transitions

Animations and transitions: fundamental elements of any deck, they should be used sparingly. When carefully applied, they create beautiful segues between slides. They can also help introduce new ideas in exact sequence. But use too many, and they become obnoxious distractions guaranteed to annoy an audience. 

Moderation is the name of the game here. Read our full Microsoft PowerPoint tutorial on animations to use them with confidence:

4. Be Interactive to Engage the Audience

No matter how compelling your narrative, you can’t simply talk to an audience and expect full participation. Instead, you need to engage your audience. A quick and fun way is with a quiz slide. They get the audience involved and help your slide deck stay focused. 

Even better: pre-built templates make it a breeze. They're PowerPoint instructions inside a PPTX file. Get started building interactive quizzes in PPT today with our guide on how to create PowerPoint quizzes:

5. Close Strong for an Enduring Message

The very best PowerPoint presentations make a great first impression. But equally (and perhaps even more) important is the winning last impression. It’s critical to conclude with a strong close. Leave on a memorable anecdote, recap your key points, or make a big “ask.” All these techniques and more help to ensure a strong close.

Don’t go it alone. We’ve created expert PowerPoint training on building a strong close. Check it out here:

This PowerPoint tutorial helped you get off the ground with using Microsoft PowerPoint. You learned the steps for creating slides and the shortcut to a better presentation with pre-built themes.

At Tuts+, we've been building out a series of PowerPoint tutorials that can help you build your presentation skills. Check out all these PowerPoint tutorials for free. One ideal place to start is the PowerPoint Ultimate Tutorial Guide that we've developed. If you're feeling nervous about giving a presentation for your job or freelance practice, try out more of these tutorials like the ones below.

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Presentations can be daunting to take on, but a bit of knowledge about Microsoft PowerPoint can ease the process. We've got tutorials that show you how to create a PowerPoint presentation, for beginners. Jump to the following links to speed up your learning process and spend less time in PowerPoint:

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The Free Creative Company Profile Presentation Template has multiple slides to demonstrate a variety of topics related to the company intro. The overall slide design is minimal and gives a professional look to the presentation. In the beginning, users can display the company details. Next, we have a hexagon-shaped SWOT diagram to mention the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities available to the organization. Also, the professionals can use the business timeline diagram slide to showcase the company history in a horizontal pattern with infographics. Further, there is a slide displaying the company’s services. In addition to this, we have two portfolio slides with engaging images that presenters can use to showcase their work samples. We also have slides to present information about our team, CEO, and business model. 

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How To Make A Gantt Chart In PowerPoint Using Shapes & Charts [+Templates]

Gantt charts are powerful visual project management tools used in presentations to showcase project timelines, tasks, and overall progress. Gantt charts are used by professionals across industries to organize and monitor projects effectively. However, creating one from scratch can be difficult if you don’t know the steps. This blog post will teach you how to make a Gantt chart in PowerPoint from scratch using shapes and charts! So, what is the wait? Let’s dive right in.

How To Make A Gantt Chart Using Tables

One of the best ways to create a Gantt chart in PowerPoint is through the use of tables! The table function allows you to show data and information through columns and cells, and enables you to effortlessly list and modify tasks, alongside start and end dates.. Follow these steps to make a Gantt chart in PPT using tables:

Adding And Editing A Table To Your Presentation

Step 1: On a blank presentation, click the “Insert” menu in the navigation bar and select ” Table.”

Step 2: Create the table by choosing “Insert Table” and add the number of rows (tasks that your project has) and columns (how long will the task take in weeks), and click on “Create” once done. 

Step 3: Highlight the first column, click on the “Layout” tab, and adjust the width, as it will house the name of your projects.  

Step 4: Highlight the entire table, click on the “Table Design,” click the “Borders” menu and select “All Borders.” Adjust the size of the table according to your needs.A

Adding Labels To The Table Columns And Merging Cells

Step 6: To add labels to your columns, in the second column and second row, type in “Week 1”. Repeat the same process for each adjacent cell.

Step 7: Once you have done that, select the rows above Week 1 to Week 4 and merge them using the “Merge Cells” option.

Step 8: In the merged cell, you can add “Month 1” and repeat the steps for the next four cells, naming them “Month 2”, “Month 3”, and so on. Once done, you can center align and bold them to make them stand out.

Coloring Coding Each Month And Adding Projects

Step 9: To color code each month separately, highlight each cell, click on the “Table Design” tab, and select the “Shading” menu to choose a color. Repeat the steps for all the months.

Step 10: In the third cell in the first column, start listing your projects in each cell. Once you have added all the projects, you can highlight the column and change its color using the “Shading” menu to differentiate it from the rest of the Gantt chart in PowerPoint.

Adding Task Bars Using Shapes And Editing Them

Step 11: Click on the “Insert” tab and select the second cell in the second row. Then click on the “Shapes” option to open a dropdown menu to choose a shape you like.

Step 12: The shape indicates the start and end week of the project, and it is adjusted accordingly to match the timeline. (For example, Project 1 starts in Week 1 and ends in Week 2, so the shape extends from Week 1 to Week 2). Repeat the process for each project.

Step 12: Change the color of each shape to match your needs by selecting each shape and in the “Shape Format” tab using the “Shape Fill” option. Click “Shape Outline” and choose no outline to make it look polished.

Adding Dates And Milestones To The Task Bars

Step 13: Double-click on any task bar to open a text box where you can add the start and end date of the project. Repeat the process for each task bar.

Step 14: Click on the “Insert” tab and choose the “Icons” button. 

Step 15: Insert your icon of choice, adjust its size, and move it on the Gantt chart to signify a milestone.

There you go! You now know how to make a Gantt chart in PowerPoint using shapes and tables in just a few steps! Remember that you can choose any shape of your liking and play around with various thickness options for the table and shapes to match your requirements. While creating a Gantt chart, take a look at how to make an Org chart in PowerPoint !

How To Make A Gantt Chart In PowerPoint

To create a PowerPoint Gantt chart, you can even use charts like the stacked bar chart (which we will use). Creating a Gantt chart in PowerPoint using the stacked bar chart is a lot more fun than creating one using a table, and it is also more professional. Here is how to create a Gantt chart in PowerPoint using charts!

Adding The Stacked Bar Chart And Entering Data

Step 1: In a blank slide in your presentation, select the “Insert” tab and choose “Chart” from the “Illustrations” section.

Step 2: Choose the “Bar” category from “All Charts” and select the “Stacked Bar” type.

Step 3: Once you select the chart, it will be added to your slide, and an Excel window will open up with a table and placeholder data that you can edit.

Step 4: In the Excel table, list down your projects in Column A, which will be reflected on the chart in the slide. As you change each placeholder text, you will see it change on the chart!

Step 5: Rename the columns titled Series 1 to “Start Date,” Series 2 to “End Date,” and the last column to “Duration” (this will be in days)  

Step 6: Format the cells under Start Date and End Date by selecting both columns, right-click on them, and choose “Format Cells” from the menu.

Step 7: This will open a dialogue box. Select “Date” from the “Category” list on the left, and choose the date format according to your needs from the “Type” menu.

Step 8: After formatting the columns, add each project’s start and end dates. (If your chart starts looking broken, don’t worry it will happen, we will fix this)

Step 9: To calculate your projects’ duration, type the formula =$C2-$B2 in the cell next to the “End Date” in the “Duration” column. Select the cell and drag it down using the small green square to apply the formula to the remaining cells. This will then fill the “Duration” column with the correct number of days.

Step 10: Now, you can remove the “End Date” from the chart in your slide to make space for “Duration” to be visible. Select the chart, click “Chart Filters” in the Series group, and uncheck the box next to “End Date.”

Formatting And Customizing The Graphic To Look Like A Gantt Chart

Step 11: Click on any of the blue bars; doing this will select all of them automatically. Right-click to open the mini toolbar.

Step 12: Select the “Fill” icon in the mini toolbar and select “No Fill.”

Step 13: Now your graphic will look a lot like a Gantt chart, and to change the color of all tasks simultaneously, click any one to select all tasks and right-click to open the mini toolbar.

Step 14: Head to the “Fill” section in the toolbar and choose a color of your preference. If you want to color each task differently, click twice on the task and use the “Fill” in the mini toolbar. You can even

Step 15: To change the title of the chart, double-click on the textbox to select it, and type the title of your choice.

Step 16 (Optional) : To apply styles and effects to the chart, you can select “ Chart Tools Format ,” where you will be able to play with various effects such as “Shadows,” “Format Axis,” and a lot more!  

That is how you make a Gantt chart in PowerPoint using charts. While you can add effects and style, we recommend keeping effects to a bare minimum to maintain balance and engagement.

PowerPoint Gantt Chart Examples & Templates

To help you gain inspiration on creating the perfect Gantt chart, we have provided a few of our templates as examples! If you like them, you can download our Gantt chart PowerPoint templates and make them into your personal slides, as our PowerPoint templates are 100% customizable!

Simple Gantt Chart Example

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Now that you know how to create a Gantt chart in PPT, it is time for you to get out there and create stunning Gantt charts and blow everyone’s minds out of the water! If you need help creating a good-looking slide, then you can contact us here, give us all the things you want on the slide, and watch us create your masterpiece!

Does PowerPoint provide pre-built templates for Gantt charts?

Yes, there are numerous Gantt chart templates readily available in PPT that you can utilize or craft your own using shapes or charts.

Can you create a Gantt chart in PPT using shapes?

Absolutely, you can create Gantt charts using shapes in PPT; follow these steps: 1. Create a basic table with rows for tasks and columns for periods. 2. Adjust column widths and grid line thickness. 3. Remove shading from cells. 4. Merge cells for month headers, center align, and bold. 5. Apply different colors to each month’s cells. 6. List project names in the first column. 7. Use shapes to represent task durations. 8. Adjust shape, size, and position to match the timeline. 9. Change the shape color and remove the outline. 10. Double-click task bars to add dates. 11. Insert icons to mark milestones.

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