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Impress your audience with a unique and professional presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. Create business presentations for work and school or casual presentations for friends while captivating and informing your audience with a well-made PowerPoint deck.
Explore creative presentation ideas and the best presentation slide layouts to turn your inspiration into a great deck with aesthetic ready-to-use templates in PowerPoint.
Eight creative and aesthetic design ideas
Minimalist
Create a strong presentation that engages viewers using the minimalist design aesthetic. The minimalist presentation design is perfect for formal or corporate presentations that require a professional feel while minimizing distractions. Easily personalize the color scheme to suit your brand style, swap in and out stock visuals with your own media and edit the text to include your information.
Contemporary
Dazzle viewers with animations, transitions, and videos using this Celestial theme template. The design is perfect for modern brands or school projects wanting a modern outer space experience. Customize the presentation template’s background color and edit the example text with your own.
Cool and fun
Share your creativity in your next PowerPoint presentation with this squiggle art template. The template example is specifically designed for public speaking but is versatile to adapt for various topics. Its bold squiggle art can captivate your audience and convey your message with style. Easily customize the text, change images, and swap slide transitions in and out to suit your needs.
Cute and playful
Impress your team or entertain at your next PowerPoint presentation night with this colorful and fun template. The example slides are ready-to-use for agenda's, areas of growth, and primary goals, and can include a timeline to define your story as well as visuals like charts and infographics. The presentation template layout is completely editable, so you can adjust the design to suit your requirements.
Geometric and stylish
Sharing an artist portfolio or music performance? Create a powerful and engaging presentation using this bold and geometric template. All you have to do is edit the example text, personalize color schemes, and modify the fonts.
Black and white
Elevate business and corporate presentations with this modern and simple PowerPoint template. With only the use of black and white colors, the presentation is perfect to share if you want to keep your audience’s attention focused on the main message. The template includes a customizable table of contents for smooth navigation, a timeline to emphasize clarity, and beneficial visuals like a table for data accuracy.
Imagery and slideshow
If you’re looking for a light-hearted yet polished PowerPoint template for travel or holidays, this template might spark design inspiration. Swap out stock travel images for your own content and edit the example text to easily convey your message.
Colorful and bright
Bring your PowerPoint to life with this vibrant color pop presentation template. Creatively designed to generate impact and engagement through bright and bold visuals, use this template for your next corporate or school presentation. You can also fully customize the template by chatting with Copilot.
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Six winning presentation layout ideas
A structured presentation layout helps convey your key messages across to viewers in an organized way—it can make or break your delivery. No matter your topic, every presentation outline usually contains these essential slides: title, introduction, agenda, problem or solution, and conclusion. You can build around this structure to ensure your presentation follows a professional layout. Try to make your presentation stand out by switching around the structure, incorporating graphics, and adding interactive elements.
If you're stuck for ideas, you can quickly build your presentation using slide suggestions in the Design Suggestions pane. Copilot intelligently recommends slides based on where you are on your deck—for example, suggesting an agenda slide at the beginning or a timeline when you're working on a planning section.
Here are some ways you can upgrade your slide layouts to make a memorable presentation.
Title slide ideas
Every presentation should start by sharing context in the first slide, also known as the title slide. It’s best practice to introduce the topic using a short title and share details like the presenter’s name, and the date of the presentation. It’s also good practice to add an organization and business logo or a school logo based on what your presentation needs are. To level up your title slide layout, you can:
Add a stock image that represents the topic and use it side-by-side with the title.
For long presentation titles, split the title across two lines and bold the important words.
Start with a question on the slide and use slide animations to reveal the title after engaging your audience.
Introduction slide ideas
This key slide sets the tone for your presentation. Use this slide to establish your ‘why’ by providing background information on your topic and explaining what viewers will gain from watching the presentation. To make your intro slide layout interesting, try this:
For business presentations, introduce your company and mission statement using short text boxes and graphics to represent products or services.
For a product or sales pitch, add a bold tagline or concise headline to grab your audience's attention right from the start. Use a simple visual or graphic paired with an engaging hook statement addressing the pain points you’re going to solve.
Introduce presenters or group members by sharing their names and photos with backgrounds removed to make the photos stand out.
Executive summary slide ideas
Writing a clear objective will guide your presentation’s narrative. The executive summary slide helps your audience get a quick overview of a presentation, particularly if it is shared asynchronously. It’s a key slide when presenting to board members or investors or pitching to a new client. However, there are still ways to make this info-heavy slide layout interesting, such as:
Write a text summary of the main points and add icons to represent each sentence for impact.
Incorporate a project timeline using SmartArt in PowerPoint to convey the key dates quickly.
Make milestones or key discussion points stand out using bold colored text backgrounds.
Agenda slide ideas
The agenda slide covers the key topics of the presentation. This slide is meant to guide your presentation’s narrative and give viewers an idea of what will be discussed. It’s a must-have slide for business, sales, and marketing presentations. Some presentations even include the time allocated for each section, which sets audience expectations. A good agenda slide layout doesn’t need to be a simple table of contents. Instead try the following:
Creating a flowchart with SmartArt to discuss the talking points using your brand color palette for a professional look.
Making a simple visual timeline by placing icons and text along a line, triggering animations once each point is spoken about by the presenter.
Choosing different text box colors for agenda items and adding fly-in transitions to guide viewers through each item as they appear.
Topic transition slides ideas
Trying to carry the presentation forward and change topics? Use a transition slide that labels the section for the presenter. This can make a big difference to the presentation’s flow, so try these engaging layouts:
Try out the morph transition to animate smoothly between one slide and the next.
Reuse the agenda slide as a topic transition by highlighting the new topic in the list for a dynamic feel.
Use a split screen layout featuring an eye catching visual next to the section name to maintain visual interest.
Question and answer slide ideas
Many slideshows signpost the end of a presentation with a closing slide which thanks viewers for their time and provides the presenter’s contact information, like name and email. However, if you want to create engagement after a presentation, open the floor to questions—whether it’s an in-person or virtual meeting. Here are some fun ideas:
Sales presenters can ask viewers about what other information they need to close the deal.
School presentations can do a quick knowledge check with questions on a slide to test understanding.
Workshop or keynote presenters can also ask a thought-provoking question to encourage audience participation.
Copilot tip: not sure what questions to add to your FAQ slide? Ask Copilot to generate questions and write answers in the chat based on your presentation content.
Four presentation topic ideas
Quiz presentation
Boost energy and excitement with a fun and interactive quiz PowerPoint presentation. Test the knowledge of your viewers in a trivia game with friends or add some competition within the classroom or workplace. Arrange the quiz layout to showcase question slides at the beginning or place the question and answer on the same slide separating them with exciting animations.
About me presentation
Introduce yourself with an elegant ‘about me’ presentation to break the ice for your first day of at work or school, also to complement your resume. Combine your own photos for a personal touch. Choose a font style that represents you and share more about yourself, your interests, hobbies, goals, and more.
Yearly wrap-up presentation
Share a presentation that reflects on the achievements, team highlights, and challenges, to bring the year to a close in the workplace. Layout the presentation to spotlight milestones, look back on goals, compare results, and make space for some lessons learned. End the presentation with a message of gratitude, inspiring viewers to look ahead to the next year using beautifully designed quote slides and minimalistic fonts.
Holiday plan presentation
Are you a visual planner creating a travel list? Or perhaps you need to pitch a holiday to your family and friends? Channel your inner marketing expert to create a vibrant holiday itinerary, using slides to point out holiday spots, accommodation options, activity options, budgets, and more. Enliven your holiday presentation by adding stock photos of the location and your favorite vacation icons.
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