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As a 22-year veteran of the PowerPoint engineering team (since retired), I have to step in to defend my app. 😉 It's not that the point in that Inc article is wrong about the struggle of text and text. That's totally legit. It's that the best PowerPoint presentations elide most text and focus on images, graphs, diagrams and such. Of course, people who are unskilled will tend to fall back to bulleted lists. (Maybe we did make that part a bit too easy...) What's great, is the transformation possibilities that have been built into the Slide Design feature in PowerPoint that transforms bullets into diagrams or timelines or icons; turns tables into charts; or bullets into images. It's amazing what the machine learning models can do to help ordinary folks create presentations free of bullet points.
I always struggled with folks that blamed PowerPoint for all the crummy presentations but never once blamed Word for all the crummy essays and books. 😂
Thanks for pointing out the Kid Cudi doc, I’m looking forward to watching it!
As a 22-year veteran of the PowerPoint engineering team (since retired), I have to step in to defend my app. 😉 It's not that the point in that Inc article is wrong about the struggle of text and text. That's totally legit. It's that the best PowerPoint presentations elide most text and focus on images, graphs, diagrams and such. Of course, people who are unskilled will tend to fall back to bulleted lists. (Maybe we did make that part a bit too easy...) What's great, is the transformation possibilities that have been built into the Slide Design feature in PowerPoint that transforms bullets into diagrams or timelines or icons; turns tables into charts; or bullets into images. It's amazing what the machine learning models can do to help ordinary folks create presentations free of bullet points.
I always struggled with folks that blamed PowerPoint for all the crummy presentations but never once blamed Word for all the crummy essays and books. 😂