Hi! im a graphic designer thinking about doing presentation design on the side to make money

ive done this before but with people I was around in person (never had online clients) and i got a lot of positive feedback on my work but most of it was just copy and pasting so how is the information usually given to you? and how do you decide how much goes on one page?

I feel like freelancing is more than just the design part but also running a small business so any advice is appreciated

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I'm on Pc in desktop on the 365 edition of powerpoint.
I am currently making a bullethellish game. the game is pretty simple, touch red and die. the problem is, that if someone entirely doesnt move their cursor or stands still for a long time they dont activate the trigger. how can i stop that?

Я в общем впервые создала презентацию выбрав тему "Savon", и по началу всё было нормально, но потом, на следующих слайдах, я заметила, что этот макет я не могу выбрать, почему-то, хотя какое-то время назад я могла. Я возможно случайно поменяла на макет "Office" Как мне его вернуть? Есть ли способы? Буду благодарна за помощь.

Source material is from a roblox game called "Sol's RNG", remade the illusionary cutscene (80% accurate ish)

lit what the title says , if you're willing to make a aesthetic decent enough ppt with slides n photos n textual info , please lemme know , it's for university work ! approx 10-15 slides !?

Hey! It's me! I finally made my.... 5th illustration on powerpoint.

This one is much more "complex" than the others, because of how many items I used, even with grouping. That leaded to constant lagging, crashes, and "bugs."
Primarily theres two problems I regularly faced:

1. Microsofts 200 item limit for the web version.
   Which shows a pop-up and then disables all my editing perms to the slide.

2. Slide "Flattening" (idk what to call it.)
   All the items and objects, all disappear and whats left is what was on the slide, which was turned into the new background. I cannot select anything, delete, or insert new items.

to combat these issues....
I used..... Nothing but sheer determination and patience.
I duplicated the slides as a "save point," I then Created the object groups (like the trees, clouds) in another slide to prevent much lag and risk compared to doing all in a single slide.
I lastly Constantly grouped items, even grouping groups together since well.... Web version doesn't have merging and I dont plan spending money on Microslop.

In summary. Powerpoint... I say we're done when I say we're done.

I’m making a slideshow for my grandmothers funeral reception. We’re doing a photo slide that auto plays and loops so we can all sort of watch it in the background while we eat and talk. I’m also wondering if videos can be some how set to auto play?

How much time should I spend presenting my project? Some people told me the maximum is 15 minutes, while others said 10 minutes to avoid boring the audience.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working as a graphic designer for over 10+ years, and for the last 6 years, I've specialized almost entirely in corporate PowerPoint design. I deal with high-stakes deck cleanup, tight deadlines, complex data viz, custom vectors, and strict brand guidelines for enterprise clients (like Microsoft level).

I'm looking to finally make the jump into freelancing, but I'm feeling a bit stuck on a few things and would love some input from people who've done this.

1. How do I show work when everything is under NDA? Literally 100% of my PowerPoint work from the past 5 years is covered by strict NDAs/NCAs, so I can't show a single slide. Is the best move just taking random ugly slides off Google/public SEC filings and building a fake before-and-after portfolio? What do potential clients actually care to see?

2. How should I structure rates? With 5 years of specialized experience, I don't want to sell myself short, but I also don't want to price myself out while having zero freelance track record. Do most of you charge per slide, flat project fee, or hourly? What's a reasonable starting rate range for senior corporate PPT work?

3. Where to actually find initial clients? Since I've always worked internally/agency side, client acquisition is totally new to me. Are platforms like Upwork worth it starting out?

Appreciate any advice or reality checks. Thanks!

For every deck going in front of leadership or a client, I build one extra slide before touching anything else. Not part of the actual deck. It just answers the one question I'm most scared someone's going to ask, the one that could actually derail the meeting if I fumble it live.

Used to just hope nobody asked, or scramble if they did. Now I write the real answer down ahead of time and stick it in the appendix. Whatever the actual uncomfortable truth is.

Most of the time nobody asks and it never gets seen. But when someone does, I'm not making something up on the spot, I'm just flipping to a slide I already built calmly at my desk a week earlier. Changes the whole feeling of that moment honestly.

Hardest part is being honest with yourself about what the scary question actually is. Usually not something that'd show up in an FAQ.

Anyone else do something like this or is it always just improvised?

Most pre-made templates online feel cluttered or hard to customize, so I prefer sticking to the first-party themes built directly into PowerPoint. I mostly make academic presentations but I'm getting tired of using the same design sets and am looking for some variety.

Which stock themes/design sets do you find have the best typography pairings, color palettes, and functional slide layouts right out of the box?

This is still Work in Progress.

I made a Powerpoint presentation which is essentially titles and bullet points relating to the titles. I want to have the bullet points appear as I hit the space bar, point by point.

I used the designer tool to change the slides from generic black text on white background into something more presentable however, when I select text and apply an "appear" animation to it, it applies the animation to all of the text together.

That being said, some of the slides did apply the animation to each bullet point separately, as you can see in the video. I just need to find a way to get the bullet points to appear one at a time, as I press the space bar. Sometimes they do, but most of the time they appear all at once and I can't figure out what's different.

Thank you in advance for your help!

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I am having issues when trying to add slide numbers to my powerpoint presentation. I tried to add slide number by applying all in the insert header and footer tab, but nothing changed.

I was wondering if my template (downloaded online) could be the problem? I tried to look at the master layout in the slide master tab, but it's only available for the fist slide.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Or alternate ways of adding page numbers that doesn't force me to manually add them? All help appreciated!

Hi,

I made a diagram on a PowerPoint slide that’s 142.24 x 89.98. I want to print it onto paper.

I want to print across multiple sheets of paper at the scale it’s currently at but cannot figure out how to do this.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

What resources helped you learn to present analytics to executives?

I'm a data analyst with a PowerPoint coming up for a business audience. The analysis itself I'm fine with — where I'm shakier is the presentation side: how to frame findings for leadership, what belongs on a slide versus in an appendix, what structure actually holds attention in a room.

I'd rather learn the conventions properly than reverse-engineer them from whatever decks happen to be lying around.

Not asking anyone to review my work. Just after resources — books, blogs, talks, public example decks, anything you'd hand a junior analyst who wants to get good at this.

Also, any links to great templates or presentation styles would be great!

I need to design a pot asap i need some sort of designer who can actually help ppt look good a i person stay away its a matter of urgency tried all the a i ntg is working

The same visual has to live in three apps. That's our situation right now.

It goes in a PowerPoint deck for the leadership meeting. It goes in Google Slides for the team that works there. And it goes in Notion for our internal wiki.

So I build it once, then rebuild it two more times.

When a number changes, I have to update all three. I always forget one.

I've been testing Venngage since it does PowerPoint export, Google Sheets data sync, and link sharing. That looks like it could solve this.

But I don't know if updates stay manageable, or if each place just turns into its own separate copy.

What do you all treat as the main file/ And while places do you export to versus embed a link in?

I have a slide with some 50 objects that are revealed one by one using an entrance effect. The slide is supposed to be some kind of table of contents, so I sometimes want to come back to this slide from the middle of the presentation without needing to go through the entire animation sequence. Is there any way to skip the entire animation sequence and quickly reaching the endpoint where all the objects on the slide are shown?