Why PowerPoint should be banned

Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by kaspm on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:13PM (#9606505)

I think perhaps instead of saying "powerpoint should be banned" perhaps poorly built diagrams and powerpoint slides with too much data that are meant to be read should be banned. Slides and visuals as part of a presentation are used to focus the listener visually on the main point being discussed. People are (generally) visually oriented and enhancing a presentation with visuals using slides can make your presentation better.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by sp332 on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:18PM (#9606553)

PowerPoint should be banned because its interface encourages the creator to add distractions. It has almost no tools for making things simpler.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by cristianocd on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:07PM (#9606938)

After banning it and getting dizzy from watching some bad Prezi presentations, you'll want PowerPoint back.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by youngtaff on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @05:25PM (#9607770)

Prezi focuses too much on transitions between the slides and I really don't like it much

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by mashmac2 on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:26PM (#9606622)

So... PPT really just needs a new design interface?

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by dyates on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:51PM (#9606814)

The MS Office suite in general is incredibly overcomplicated for what the average person is actually going to need or even use. The ribbon interface I think helped (mainly because it removed/hid Clipart and Wordart), but not enough. Many people I know have stopped using Office entirely in favour of the free and much lighter weight Google Docs suite, with no complaints about missing features.

MS does seem to be simplifying (or arguably dumbing down) their interfaces a lot these days, so maybe we'll see this kind of a redesign.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by niels_olson on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:39PM (#9606726)

To an extent. I use iPython with RISE or a deck.js based system. I really like the deck.js method because my interface is vim.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by jszymborski on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:13PM (#9606972)

I just searched up RISE, and as a guy who loves reveal.js and spends a lot of time writing python in IPython (and who wants to bridge out into Julia), this is a godsend.

Thanks for bringing it up!

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by throwaway125 on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:47PM (#9606790)

techdevman: Your account is shadow banned. Looking at your history I think it was for your first article submission. It seems in error. No contact info in your profile so I wrote this reply.

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