The Glade 4.0

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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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I'm not a powerpoint wizard, but I am now extremely curious as to what exactly you're trying to get it to do.

I know more powerpoint than I'd like, and less than is useful. What do you need to do?

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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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

That.

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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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I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks DFK! might work for Microsoft. I mean, powerpoint?

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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Powerpoint is the worst thing to happen to presentations since overhead transparencies.

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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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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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People use that?

I always used InDesign.

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Holy shitsnacks!

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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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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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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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Dude, that's like saying the availability of firearms encourages otherwise non-lethal psychopaths to become lethal psychopaths. Or, wait ...

I think he just used the Short Skirt Defense against PowerPoint.

What's the legal limit on in a thread?

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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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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

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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Will investigate. Thanks.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine