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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2007What should never be done in PowerPoint
Hi, I never really use this forum for an opinion, but.... I've seen a couple of recent examples where folks have given a live presentation. The introduction started like this: "I'm sorry if I don't seem to know what I am talking about tonight, but this is the first time I have seen this presentation and I haven't had time to prepare". If anyone is using PowerPoint to speak publicly, don't do that, please. It is nonsense to not prepare and then apologize. Fix it. It is that simple.  SignatureRegards, Glen Millar Microsoft PPT MVP Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at the original www.pptworkbench.com glen at pptworkbench dot com ------------------------------------------ Please tell us your: PowerPoint version Windows version Are you using VBA? Anything else relevant? > I've seen a couple of recent examples where folks have given a live > presentation. The introduction started like this: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > If anyone is using PowerPoint to speak publicly, don't do that, please. It > is nonsense to not prepare and then apologize. Fix it. It is that simple. So you're saying that there's no need to tell the audience in advance that you don't respect them enough to do some minimal preparation because they'll work that out for themselves soon enough? Then again, if the point is to make the audience dislike you, a bit of advance notice gets the job done faster. And then you can all go out for a drink, no need to waste time on the presentation. Yours or the audience's. And once you're in the bar and everybody's looped, there's still no need to apologize. The name of the game is PowerPoint Karaoke, you're It, and everybody *knows* you've never seen the pressie before. That's the whole *point*. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ This tends to happen at the highest levels - the President, Prime Minister, Queen, CEO or whatever get handed the script as they walk to the podium and have to deliver it as if it is their own words. There is a simple and well understood way of doing this. But the team behind him/her has to have thought it through and be very professional. Martin SignatureMartin Conradi www.showcase-online.co.uk >> I've seen a couple of recent examples where folks have given a live >> presentation. The introduction started like this: [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Exactly. SignatureEcho S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com > This tends to happen at the highest levels - the President, Prime > Minister, Queen, CEO or whatever get handed the script as they walk to the > podium and have to deliver it as if it is their own words. There is a > simple and well understood way of doing this. But the team behind him/her > has to have thought it through and be very professional. > This tends to happen at the highest levels - the President, Prime Minister, > Queen, CEO or whatever get handed the script as they walk to the podium and > have to deliver it as if it is their own words. There is a simple and well > understood way of doing this. But the team behind him/her has to have > thought it through and be very professional. And you can bet that Her Majesty doesn't call attention to it ahead of time. <g> ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > In article <ebN0MENuHHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Martin Conradi > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Loyola subjects, before I begin my remarks, I want to let you know that the footman to the undersecretary of royal affairs just handed me this speech, so if my speech does not conform to the "Queen's English," I apologize and will have him executed. > Loyola subjects, You've been working there too long, David. ;-) > before I begin my remarks, I want to let you know that the > footman to the undersecretary of royal affairs just handed me this speech, > so if my speech does not conform to the "Queen's English," I apologize and > will have him executed. I have always considered PowerPoint to be the ultimate cheat - and I mean that in a good way. Remember giving speeches and only being allowed to use 3 notecards? Now you can have as many as you want, the text is big enough to see, you don't have to worry about dropping them, and it gives your audience something to look at besides you. If you know the topic well enough, it should not make a huge difference if you have not seen the PowerPoint - If you don't know the topic, you should not be presenting it. > > Loyola subjects, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > so if my speech does not conform to the "Queen's English," I apologize and > > will have him executed. |
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