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But PowerPoint is much more than that. Sure, it's just a content delivery
mechanism, but it includes wizards and workflows that guide you along and
suggest a certain way of doing things. It's not so free-form as a pencil
and paper; it's more akin to Mad Libs. Not that it's quite so constrained,
but the idea is the same; you're not allowed to do anything you'd like, and
even if you are, it's only by subverting the normal workflow, by adding
scripting functionality or throwing out the predefined templates (like
rewriting the Mad Libs from scratch on their paper).
Sure, it can be entertaining and informative. But the problem is that it
doesn't encourage care and preparation of one's presentation, and does
encourage *something else*.
At 09:22 PM 1/6/2004 -0500, Peter wrote:
Hating PPT because it is misused is equivalent to hating pencil and paper
because some people scribble with it. A PPT presentation can be
entertaining and enjoyable, or it can be drab and uninteresting. I wonder
if the reason some users have an aversion to RTFM can somehow be found in
this thread.
