Re: PowerPoint is art
Hating PPT because it is misused is equivalent to hating pencil and paper because some people scribble with it. A PPT presentation can be entertaining and enjoyable, or it can be drab and uninteresting. I wonder if the reason some users have an aversion to RTFM can somehow be found in this thread.I know you can create some interesting material in a slide presentation, and I can understand the challenge of doing so. However, if you're using PowerPoint, let's face it: you're struggling against the medium. It's just not the the first choice for doing elaborate multi-media presentations.
You can do a little more in Impress, OpenOffice.org's slide presentation program because it's basically a modified version of the drawing program. However, even there, you're struggling agains t the tools.
The idea that PowerPoint can be used in elaborate ways is akin to saying that you can design a brochure in MS Word: yes, you can, but who would choose to if almost any other choice was available?
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