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At Corel's launch of WordPerfect in late May, I saw Jeff Hunsaker, WordPerfect Director of Product Marketing make very good use of WordPerfect Presentations, with well-organized and animated bullet points and amusing graphics. Text bounced onto the screen and an airplane even flew by at one point, but he got away with it because the entire slide show only lasted about five minutes, instead of throughout his entire talk.
No doubt there are many ways that presentation software can complement a good talk, but the key word there is "complement," not replace. I had lunch recently with a Silicon Valley-based executive and he was telling me how most of his colleagues won't want to take more than five minutes to turn their notes into a slide show.
"Is it so important that they do that?" I asked.
"Today," he replied, "you can't give a talk in this business without showing slides."
"But if you just turn your notes into slides, your slides will be the same as what you say."
"That's right."
"That's sad."
"That's right." |
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