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Re:“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occas... by qznc on Monday November 06, 2017 @08:48AM (#15635347)
At least with Powerpoint you can also do it right.

I wonder what all those "programmer-friendly presentations" creators are thinking who are proud to use Markdown. In Markdown you are forced to do bullet points.

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Re:“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occas... by depressedpanda on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:44PM (#15639984)
> In Markdown you are forced to do bullet points.

Uhm, no, you are not.

Anecdotally, I would say that non-ppt presentations are of higher quality. Obviously, it's possible to do a bad presentation regardless of the tool, but the really bad ones are always done with PowerPoint. I'm honestly not sure whether it's because of the program or the type of people who use it. Probably a bit of both.

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