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Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.

That's why I mentioned Beamer's docs. There is a very good tool-agnostic chapter in them.

Looked it up. You mean the chapter „Guidelines for Creating Presentation“?

Yes. It's full of wisdom and humor. ;-)

I loved especially this gem:

> Never, ever reuse a paper abstract for a presentation, except if the abstract is “We show P = NP” or “We show P ≠ NP”.

The beamer package manual had nice hints, like ~1 page just about font size. With statements like

> In beamer, the default sizes of the fonts are chosen in a way that makes it difficult to fit “too much” onto a slide.

Many of the ideas apply outside of latex/beamer. It's one of the better free documents about the technical aspects of slides. At least if the presentation is still driven by content on the slides, but that decision is a whole different story.

Any chance to achieve similar results with goold old (new) PowerPoint?

Typst with Polylux (inspired by Beamer) is a nice alternative.