Comments on: PowerPoint Design Wish List: 8 Modest Proposals

By: Allyncia

Allyncia — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:02:40 +0000

I would love if PowerPoint had a button that could make it into one of those awesome mini flash players that I see on so many blogs.

By: Brent Dykes

Brent Dykes — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:39:25 +0000

Andrew, thank you for sharing your PPT wishlist. I’m still in the process of building out my own PPT wishlist. A simple item on my list would be a basic eyedropper tool like what can be found in Photoshop. It’s also good to find someone who hates PowerPoint transitions as much as me. I consider them to be “empty calories”.
http://www.powerpointninja.com/animations/powerpoint-slide-transitions-are-empty-calories/

By: Oliver (ReThink)

Oliver (ReThink) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:54:54 +0000

Hi Andrew, really cool post! I agree with most of your points! It’s not PowerPoint that’s evil, it’s how you use it. And most people just mis-use it.

I also just recently wrote a post on “killing clip arts” on my blog.

The question here is of course, who’s to blame for all the bad slides? Maybe it’s a software niche: “PowerPoint Suckiness Avoidance Plug-In” .

Cheers,

Oliver

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:32:31 +0000

Great list – and echos of my own idea of electrify-ing the keyboard by a few volts for every point under 30!

WRT you wanting to change fonts in PPT… I’ve got two thoughts. The first is that PPT should be re-designed to make it intuitively obvious how to do that (that is, the fact that you needed the help facility at all was a problem, let alone the quality of that facility); secondly, why, oh, why, oh why is the default font something as inappropriate as Times New Roman?!?!

Simon

By: Jason Peck

Jason Peck — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:02:01 +0000

Andrew,

Thanks for the inclusion in your roundups recently.

I like this post. I’ve been chewing this post over. Why don’t you contact Open Office?

As its open source they might be more open to implement the changes you suggest to “Impress”
http://www.openoffice.org/

Cheers,
Jason

By: Ellen Finkelstein

Ellen Finkelstein — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:28:30 +0000

Great list, Andrew. The thing is, I'd love more capabilities, but almost anything that's added will be misused. I'd like to see better multimedia capabilities, output to SWF and DVD, a simple sound editor, 3D animation. I could live with the ribbon if it were customizable. Some bloggers have written about what they'd like to see in the way of PowerPoint design.

By: Tim H

Tim H — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:44:15 +0000

Re clip art: Microsoft is making an effort, offering a lot of clip art and photos at http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/clipart/FX101321031033.aspx?pid=CL100570201033

Downloads appear in your Clip Art Organizer, which integrates decently with Powerpoint.

By: Tim H

Tim H — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:41:52 +0000

It’s about time someone jumped off the “Powerpoint sucks” bandwagon and put the focus on the users, who think nothing of spending hours learning yoga or guitar but think they don’t have to learn how to use Powerpoint. Hooray!

By: Kevin Weaver

Kevin Weaver — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:45:55 +0000

Add an Equation Editor!!

By: 365pwords

365pwords — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:34:24 +0000

As a Toastmaster (DTM) I am very impressed with your website and will be putting you on my blogroll shortly.

I watched the Prof. Winston video and love his low tech, low energy speaking style works perfectly for him. Thanks for turning me on to him.