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| Author: | DFK! [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Powerpoint Wizards |
Do we have any powerpoint wizards on the forum, able to magically make all sorts of cool things happen in a presentation? I have a couple questions on whether certain items are possible, and if not I'll be looking to go Adobe or some other route. |
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| Author: | Darkroland [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
I'm not a powerpoint wizard, but I am now extremely curious as to what exactly you're trying to get it to do. |
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| Author: | SuiNeko [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:53 pm ] |
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I know more powerpoint than I'd like, and less than is useful. What do you need to do? |
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| Author: | NephyrS [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:20 pm ] |
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I'm fairly good with making stuff happen in powerpoint, as well as various Adobe suite software. What do you need to make happen? |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:01 pm ] |
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SuiNeko wrote: I know more powerpoint than I'd like, and less than is useful. What do you need to do? That. |
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| Author: | shuyung [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:57 pm ] |
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There's more to powerpoint than putting words on slides, and then talking about the words on the slides? This sounds fishy. |
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| Author: | Darkroland [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:04 pm ] |
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shuyung wrote: There's more to powerpoint than putting words on slides, and then talking about the words on the slides? This sounds fishy. I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks DFK! might work for Microsoft. I mean, powerpoint? 
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| Author: | Khross [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
DFK! works for an entity that has more reach, scope, and power than Microsoft. That said, I can assure you that Excel and PowerPoint are fundamentally mandatory in his line of work, just as they are in mine. While I love the former, I loathe the latter and pay Students to know how it works. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:10 pm ] |
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Powerpoint is the worst thing to happen to presentations since overhead transparencies. |
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| Author: | Khross [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:14 pm ] |
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Hopwin wrote: Powerpoint is the worst thing to happen to presentations since overhead transparencies. I disagree. At least PowerPoint removed the wet ink from the equation. Incidentally, the largest reason PowerPoint remains useful is not presentations; it scales to large print formats far beyond Word's capabilities and allows you deal with much larger document formats than Publisher.
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| Author: | Darkroland [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
Every time Khross comments in a thread, I always hope the volcano lair that he's typing in is humidity controlled. In a good way. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
Darkroland wrote: Every time Khross comments in a thread, I always hope the volcano lair that he's typing in is humidity controlled. In a good way. Drafting Powerpoints full of typewriter sound effects and fly in text! Lol |
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| Author: | Müs [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:03 pm ] |
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Khross wrote: I disagree. At least PowerPoint removed the wet ink from the equation. Incidentally, the largest reason PowerPoint remains useful is not presentations; it scales to large print formats far beyond Word's capabilities and allows you deal with much larger document formats than Publisher. People use that? I always used InDesign. |
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| Author: | Khross [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
Lots of people use Publisher, because InDesign is as expensive as an entire Office license. Likewise, access to PowerPoint is trivial for students or other parties involved in making submissions; access to InDesign makes a personal outlay of cash almost mandatory. PowerPoint is actually superior to both InDesign and Publisher for making project displays and posters that require some combination of visual and textual information, particularly if you need higher word density written segments (at least from an ease of use and uniformity of quality standpoint). |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
PowerPoint is also ideal for creative types who have to make something pretty (like a sales deck) and then hand it off in an editable format to someone who's completely clueless (like a salesperson). |
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| Author: | Khross [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
FarSky wrote: PowerPoint is also ideal for creative types who have to make something pretty (like a sales deck) and then hand it off in an editable format to someone who's completely clueless (like a salesperson). Good point that I totally did not consider.
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| Author: | Diamondeye [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
FarSky wrote: PowerPoint is also ideal for creative types who have to make something pretty (like a sales deck) and then hand it off in an editable format to someone who's completely clueless (like a salesperson). It's also ideal for creating overly busy slides to brief people on projects no one other than the presenter gives a **** about. |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
That's a problem with the presenter, not the program. He would be boring/confusing people no matter the tools at his disposal. |
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| Author: | Diamondeye [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
FarSky wrote: That's a problem with the presenter, not the program. He would be boring/confusing people no matter the tools at his disposal. No, no. The availability of a program like powerpoint encourages this sort of behavior. |
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| Author: | Khross [ Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Powerpoint Wizards |
Diamondeye wrote: FarSky wrote: That's a problem with the presenter, not the program. He would be boring/confusing people no matter the tools at his disposal. No, no. The availability of a program like powerpoint encourages this sort of behavior.I think he just used the Short Skirt Defense against PowerPoint. What's the legal limit on  in a thread?
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| Author: | DFK! [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:52 am ] |
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So to those wanting to know more detail: I'm wondering if PP can have dynamic slide presentation, insofar as an interaction on say, slide X, might affect (or hide, or whatever) slide Y. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:49 am ] |
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You can probably get there if you embed a link to slide Y. You can do custom branching if you skip the whole "right click = advance" and instead put in navigation buttons that take you from slide to slide. Or you can get fancier, for example one of our trainers here built a jeopardy board into a PPT and when you picked the category/dollar amount it displayed the question and after the question it returned you to the board and blued out the value so it couldn't be selected again. A quick google search returns this page: http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html You can probably download the templates and alter them to match what you are looking for. |
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| Author: | DFK! [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:34 am ] |
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Will investigate. Thanks. |
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