On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:32 am, Ted Harding wrote:

Hi Folks,

By chance I found myself listening, on Radio 4 yesterday afternoon, to the folllowing gem:

Your right, well worth listening to. I love the point made to the end (I'll paraphrase here) "Power point won't make you look any more stupid than you already are....(it just helps)" Actually I agree with the general theme throughout this broadcast. There is really not much too wrong with Power Point as long as you use it as a tool to create slides, use it to create a presentation however and you'll end up having your audience wanting to kill you. I've seen people do it a number of times, they use PowerPoint to start thinking about the format of a presentation, then prepare some speech to annotate the slides. What should happen is that they design the presentation and then use PowerPoint to supplement that if required. Maybe this is the fault of Microsoft for the way PowerPoint was marketed, maybe it's the users expectations...or maybe it's lazy people who get someone else to build the powerpoint slideshow and then "present" it by standing next to the screen hitting the forward button.