Did you know that employees and freelancers spend an average of 100 hours per year creating presentations and working with PowerPoint?
This was the finding of a cross-industry study conducted by the market research company INNOFACT.
The result makes it clear: Whether for trade fairs, lectures or pitches – presentations are an integral part of everyday business life, and a correspondingly large amount of time is spent on their creation and preparation.
However, a study by GfK a few years ago already showed that employees spend too much time formatting their PowerPoint slides. Of an average of 20 hours of work with PowerPoint per month, around 8 hours are spent on mostly repetitive tasks.
- Slide design and formatting
- Creating charts and tables
- Transferring older slides to a new design
- Image/Icon Research
- Up-to-dateness check of presentations
- Search for master templates
Often, what seem like minor details at first glance are nonetheless essential for a perfect presentation. And these seemingly small things ultimately consume a full 40 percent of the time spent working with PowerPoint.
Therefore, it is all the more important to do something about these time-wasters and thus free up more valuable time for other important tasks!
Increase productivity - eliminate time wasters
By using the following tools and aids for PowerPoint, you can significantly simplify and accelerate your workflows:
Quick Access Toolbar
Optimize your daily workflow with PowerPoint by adding frequently used shortcuts and commands to your Quick Access Toolbar. This allows you to customize the program's user interface to perfectly suit your individual needs and workflow. Learn how to define the Quick Access Toolbar here .
PowerPoint templates
The advantages of using PowerPoint templates are obvious: pre-made designs and placeholders into which you simply copy and paste your content. Selected imagery and pre-researched content on specific topics are available for you to present directly. You'll find a wide selection of presentation templates in our shop .
Slide Master & Style Guide
The PowerPoint slide master is a custom-defined slide template that determines the layout of all slides. Using the master ensures a consistent look and feel across your presentation slides. Alternatively, you can create a style guide for all your employees and colleagues that clearly outlines the rules for adhering to your corporate design guidelines when creating slides.
By the way: You don't have to choose one of the solutions, but can combine all three: Install the quick access bar and use it to edit presentation templates with pre-made content even faster, which you can adapt to your predefined master or style guide specifications with just a few clicks.