The PowerPoint masks training teaches you to standardize your presentations and impose a real corporate visual identity. In one intensive half day, you master slide masters, graphic themes and PowerPoint templates that ensure perfect consistency on all your slides. A strategic skill for communication, marketing and training services in French speaking Switzerland.
Apply your graphic charter on all PowerPoint presentations in a few clicks
In daily business life in Switzerland, mastering PowerPoint masks clearly distinguishes profiles who produce truly pro presentations from those who tinker slide by slide. This PowerPoint training gives you the reflexes to create a master, decline layouts, build a reusable template for an entire team.
Module 1: Creating Masks
Module 2: Creating themes
When producing PowerPoint presentations regularly, manually retouching each slide to keep the same visual charter quickly becomes exhausting. PowerPoint masks solve exactly this: define once the layout, colors, fonts, logos, and propagate these choices automatically on all slides.
The training places significant focus on slide masters. You learn to modify the main master to change in one operation the look of all slides. You also see how to create multiple custom layouts for different content types.
Beyond masters, the course covers PowerPoint themes: color selection, fonts, visual effects applied globally. You learn to customize a theme to match your corporate graphic charter.
The third pillar is creating PowerPoint templates (.potx). A PowerPoint template combines master, theme, pre-designed slides and possibly type content. Stored on the company network, it serves as a base for all new supports.
The PowerPoint masks training is designed for communication, marketing, training, support services, consultants and any profile producing presentations regularly.
At our ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this PowerPoint masks training runs as an intensive half day. You work on concrete cases and leave with course materials and reusable templates.
What is a PowerPoint slide master?
It is a reference slide defining the common look of all slides: font, colors, logo, layout. Modifying the master automatically modifies all dependent slides.
What is the difference between a mask, theme and template?
The master defines the layout, the theme defines colors and fonts, the template (.potx) combines both as a base for new presentations.
Do I need to know PowerPoint before this masks training?
Yes, good mastery of basics is required.
Does this training cover creating a corporate template?
Yes, an entire module is dedicated to creating reusable PowerPoint templates.
Is this PowerPoint training held in Geneva?
Yes, the training takes place at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
How long to master PowerPoint masks?
The essential techniques are acquired in a structured half day.
What is the natural next step?
The PowerPoint Making your presentation effective course or the MOS PowerPoint Associate to aim for a certification.
Designers, communication, marketing, training profiles, and any collaborator creating PowerPoint templates for organization or recurring own presentations. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A communication leader creating corporate template for 200 collaborators. A trainer structuring pedagogical themes for time saving on each course. A consultant industrializing client presentation production via custom masks. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with PowerPoint Fundamentals, impactful presentation for global design, and SharePoint for corporate template sharing. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
PowerPoint masks and themes are the invisible foundation of consistent industrialized design. A well-designed mask multiplies productivity of the whole organization. This training targets profiles wanting to professionalize their templates.
Most participants report a noticeable effect from the first week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice on real files. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional context, including milestones and review prompts to ensure the techniques become permanent.
The tools and techniques covered in this course are used daily by millions of professionals across Geneva and Lausanne organizations. Mastery of these features transforms repetitive work into efficient routine, freeing time for higher-value activities. This training relies on real professional cases and offers an outfitted approach calibrated for the 2025-2026 evolutions of the platform.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Need to be graphic designer?
No, the course addresses communication or business profiles.
Does it cover corporate themes?
Yes, theme creation aligned to brand charter is treated.
Is Designer integrated?
Yes, Designer is positioned in dedicated sequence.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
