Kill powerpoint
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- Yolo0
- aanderton0
I hate using it, mainly due to the fact that we have 07 at work and I hate the 07 office interface with those annoying tabs to navigate menus.
It isn't all that bad to design with however. Just takes some getting used to.
- baldboss0
Our MD is sh1t-hot in PPT. Makes them look amazing he does! He asked me to amend one the other day, didn't have a clue where to start. It's an awful app that makes you work super hard to use and make things look good. It's never going away, so learn it and use it only when you need to.
- Kidswift0
Anyone use this http://prezi.com/
- no, but is does
looks pretty sweet
though...utopian - I'm gonna try this, it looks nifty.Continuity
- It is good but just read a guardian tech post bitching about how unstable their website is so maybe just stick with free version for nowKidswift
- with the free version for nowKidswift
- Does the pro desktop version produce offline presentations automatically?Continuity
- no, but is does
- ukit0
- maikel0
If I had to kill something I would kill state agents first. Still, PPT is shite, but from time to time you have to show your flair making a good design on a shite piece of software.
Can you imagine the average comic-sans-lover-CFO doing a presentation in... let's say, flash?
Also, it probably wouldn't even run on a mac! :P
- airey0
aint gonna happen. sorry to burst your bullshit bubble.
- mydo0
I don't agree.
powerpoint is a good piece of software, and with a bit of care you can make good looking presentations that you can share and work on with your clients.if you're trying to use it on a mac, it's rubbish (no surprise that microsoft didn't care about that though)
What it needs is better templates and better clip art (yes clip art),
so no, powerpoint doesn't need to end. it needs to be supported.
- jfletcher0
That's like wanting to kill Photoshop to stop terrible design and photo work. I've seen some nice PPT work. It's all in the person who creates it.
- georgesIII0
If only you knew how much money your friend could make knowing how to use powerpoint well.
I've been ask in the past to prepare powerpoint presentations for clients of mine because they like sitting around a table and projecting ideas on a white board. It is one of the business thing that will never disappear no matter how much tech is around them.If it pays I'll learn it, I can use word too fairly well
don't discriminate because I can honestly say 95% of the corporate world still use PPT format to exchange presentations.as of visually failing, here's a good example of a company that good looking powerpoints
http://www.ethos3.com/portfolio/…
- twistedfork0
Why hate the program mate, it's all up to the user. if you dont know how to make a good presentation it'll fail no matter what software you use (Keynote, PPT or Acrobat).
Cheers!
- jaylarson0
keynote works in a pinch
- inhaler97
tonight I had a conversation with a friend who just started school to get his MBA (he has an MFA already and is well versed in photoshop, indesign, and illustrator) on how we have to nip Powerpoint in the bud.
I've talked to him about convincing other aspiring entrepreneurs to leave behind their Microsoft ways, and enter adobe PDF's Slideshow.
ANyone else Agree? Powerpoint needs to end, and Im all for marketing myself to make good looking presentations for the masses. It particularly irks me when I see a TED talk, (which I remind you is to be the top of their field)
and their presentation visually fails.