- #POWER USER EQUIVALENT FOR MAC POWERPOINT MANUAL#
- #POWER USER EQUIVALENT FOR MAC POWERPOINT SOFTWARE#
In my search for a superior 21st century alternative, I have narrowed it down to three possible candidates:Īll three alternatives boasted prettier visuals, with Prezi also offering that unique ‘spatial context’ functionality that enables a presentation to show the spatial relationship between slides instead of simply moving through them in a linear fashion.įor my own purposes, Haiku and Slideshare were out of contention immediately as a key requirement in my selection process was the ability to create, store and exhibit the presentation offline. I’m jumping in late here, but I’ve been wrestling with the very same limitations inherent to Powerpoint. Bill Gates turned out to be way more than just a human being, he’s a mega-mensch. No really: please.īTW: I have no ill-will towards Microsoft in general.
#POWER USER EQUIVALENT FOR MAC POWERPOINT SOFTWARE#
So, if you’re reading this Microsoft Powerpoint team: before calling your lawyers, please talk to your Usability Testing Team (You haven’t met them? Why does this not surprise me.) and tell them to watch a hundred normal people trying to wrestle something adequate out of your insanely frustrating software then read their report and DO YOUR BLOODY JOBS. Why people still buy and use something so crappyīecause the bastards bundled it with Office and made it the standard and we’re all stuck forever. Maybe ten Aspergic hobbyists with no cats, friends or loved ones).
#POWER USER EQUIVALENT FOR MAC POWERPOINT MANUAL#
Job done.Ģ) People who read every manual and take every course – they love Powerpoint because they invested lots of time, money and effort getting really good at it. The two kinds of people who love Powerpointġ) People who have no clue about how a document or presentation should look – they love Powerpoint because they are blind and ignorant. After thousands of hours of use, a chimpanzee ought to be able to do these things.Ĭan anybody out there think of a tool in any other profession that is so central to that profession but so downright bad? I can’t either. I can’t detail the type except in the clunkiest way.Īfter thousands of hours of use, I ought to be able to do these things. I can’t make it stop re-formatting my work. Not only have I not mastered it, I can’t even make it do the most basic things that I want without a ridiculous amount of faffing. So even if I were in the Guinness Book of World Records under Cretin, I should have mastered it by now. I have spent thousands of hours in Powerpoint. Here’s why Powerpoint is such crappy software: If there were even basic competition for this essential application, Powerpoint would have gone the way of the brown Zune. (Yes, I could use Keynote but most of the people I share my decks with cannot). The only reason it can persist is that Powerpoint created and exploits a monopoly in presentation software.
And, since it was launched in 1990 – 23 years ago! – and is on its umpteenth release and has been used by billions of people THIS IS INEXCUSABLE. I hate Powerpoint because it is BAD SOFTWARE. (People do that).Īnd I don’t hate Powerpoint because it’s responsible for nine gazillion mind-numbing decks (people did those too). I don’t hate Powerpoint because it dumbs down our world.
Powerpoint is chained to my ankle for life. In most of my life, if I hate a product, I just stop buying or using it.
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