This may just be a degenerated part of the office "culture" in which I find myself these days, but all-too often the PowerPoint or Impress ( this second for the few who have gone the OpenOffice route, there-by sticking it to "the Man," or so we pointlessly like to think. It takes so little to pump us we office drones) presentations I have encountered WEREN'T created as a public presentation tool, but rather as something that can be printed out and distributed to the masses in the digital Gutenberg fashion. Because of this, the presentations tend to be far too long, far too complex, and contain far too much text, often at a size that even makes it difficult to read when printed.
Sure, nifty packages of information ARE cool, but this is an entirely too complex a fashion to distribute material. A cut 'n paste of the text from these things into a regular word-processed document finds it reduced in size significantly.
When these gargantuan presentations are actually presented on a computer screen or a always-just-slightly out of focus video projector, the results are a general numbness above the brain stem of those on whom it is inflicted and the overwhelming thought of these folks running along the lines of, "Well, I can't figure this out at all. I'll just wait to read the printed version. Are there any muffins left? Ooo, blueberry!"
8 mistakes when creating PowerPoi...
This may just be a degenerated part of the office "culture" in which I find myself these days, but all-too often the PowerPoint or Impress ( this second for the few who have gone the OpenOffice route, there-by sticking it to "the Man," or so we pointlessly like to think. It takes so little to pump us we office drones) presentations I have encountered WEREN'T created as a public presentation tool, but rather as something that can be printed out and distributed to the masses in the digital Gutenberg fashion. Because of this, the presentations tend to be far too long, far too complex, and contain far too much text, often at a size that even makes it difficult to read when printed.
Sure, nifty packages of information ARE cool, but this is an entirely too complex a fashion to distribute material. A cut 'n paste of the text from these things into a regular word-processed document finds it reduced in size significantly.
When these gargantuan presentations are actually presented on a computer screen or a always-just-slightly out of focus video projector, the results are a general numbness above the brain stem of those on whom it is inflicted and the overwhelming thought of these folks running along the lines of, "Well, I can't figure this out at all. I'll just wait to read the printed version. Are there any muffins left? Ooo, blueberry!"
Gad . . .