William Robb wrote: > Interesting take, blaming the misuse of software for a problem, rather > than those who misued the software.
Well said. I get to see quite a few ppt presentations at work and they never impress me. It has nothing to do with ppt itself - they're just bad presentations. Usually too much info on a slide, and stupid colour choices resulting in unreadable text. Or the most common problem: boring content :) I do dislike ppt but only from when I've had to use it and found it too restrictive. But its easy to whip something up in a short time. I did a short presentation a couple of weeks ago. I decided to use Flash as a learning exercise, and because I wanted better control over the effects. It turned out that I had to be extremely careful about my transitions and animations, in addition to the content itself. Flash gives you enough control to *really* screw things up ;) I definitely recommend previewing a presentation using the data projector while you still have the time to make changes. I found that the one we use at work has big problems with pure red, and has nowhere near the contrast of a CRT monitor. > Next thing you know, Nasa will be suing Microsoft for the replacement > cost of a space shuttle. Hmm, not sure if MS could even afford that. I'm too lazy to use Google: what does a new shuttle cost these days? Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
