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I think that the best way to improve most powerpoint decks is to remove all content except for the titles on slides.

After that put them on one page, and email them to everyone before the meeting.

And then cancel the meeting.

But wait, my whole job is going to meetings!

Quickly call a meeting to discuss going to meetings.

It depends on the client. For a lot of dense content, just getting a strong grid structure into its alignment and regularising the design helps. We always advise to have a medium amount of content on the slide, some of our clients ask us to break down slides into multiple slides to help.

There's always a lot that can be done :)

Most people don't have design problems, they have content problems. Giving a talk is difficult, and "slides not being pretty enough" ranks way down there in ways to screw it up.

I just frickin hate when slides contain word for word what the person presenting them says.