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Taking bite-sized posting to the extreme

Posted on April 9, 2008 at 2:50 pm under tangent

PowerPoint deserves its own private little roped-off area of hell, right next to Project.

14 Comments so far »

buldan said

April 9 2008 @ 5:15 pm

As someone that’s developing an AddIn for it, I couldn’t agree more.
Cameron Sorden said

April 9 2008 @ 5:52 pm

I <3 Powerpoint. Give it love, Scott. Not hate.

Imagine having to do what it does by hand. *shudder*
Blackfield said

April 9 2008 @ 7:37 pm

I think thats the problem, working with Powerpoint makes you think your doing it by hand
Damion Schubert said

April 9 2008 @ 9:13 pm

If you hate powerpoint, you’re probably doing it wrong.

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/living_large_ta.html
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/the_godin_metho.html
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/the_kawasaki_me.html
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April 10 2008 @ 8:23 am

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heartless_ said

April 10 2008 @ 9:07 am

PowerPoint is a great tool that I’ve yet to find a suitable sub for and I’m the kind of person that will run open source anything if it is “close enough”. Funnily enough I do run Open Office.

The problem with PowerPoint is that people take it overboard. Keep it simple and it’s cake.

However, I would probably never buy Power Point or Office if a job/school didn’t require it.
Ophelea said

April 10 2008 @ 9:12 am

Heh.

So… the 2007 PPT is MUCH better than any previous iteration. Mostly because they designed it.

Allowing it out of the roped off area and into any of the “normal” Circles of Hell.

Project can flounder in the bowels.
Ama said

April 10 2008 @ 9:16 am

If you liked Project, you’ll LOVE xPlanner!

I’m fairly certain this quote about sums it up:
“…XPlanner is a project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams. …”
Cuppycake said

April 10 2008 @ 5:23 pm

Ugh, I hate Powerpoint.

I also hate Excel.
Adam Martin said

April 11 2008 @ 2:59 am

If you hate powerpoint, you probably want Keynote, but just don’t realise it yet…

Even powerpoint 2007 lacks some of the basic (and I mean “basic”) features of Keynote. e.g. Once you’ve used keynotes speaker-view to see what’s going on with your presentation, see multiple counters simultaneously, and see the next slide etc full size (still not possible in powerpoint), it’s very hard to go back to the pain of PP…

Such a pity this involves buying a mac(book/air/etc). I mean, why would anyone want an excuse for that?
Drew said

April 11 2008 @ 3:44 pm

…and people who talk at the theatre.
The Hiram Key said

April 12 2008 @ 11:03 am

Powerpoint rocks you guys are crazy.
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Georgia said

May 11 2008 @ 6:48 am

Oh come come now! PowerPoint isn’t nearly as bad as Project! At least you can undo changes more than 1 layer backwards with PowerPoint! I think you have to kill small children to get Project to do anything for you