Microsoft PowerPoint
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Why people recommend it
“I use PowerPoint for that.”
“My last PowerPoint game pushes the limits of what you can do”
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“You could make it yourself in 10 minutes, with PowerPoint”
“there's an AI version now built into microsoft powerpoint”
“it works shockingly well, with minor but important caveats”
Caveats and dissent
“Then I used PowerPoint via the browser and found this level of data loss is a regular occurrence.”
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“last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint”
“If there’s no alternative to PowerPoint, that should be treated as a plus, not as a problem.”
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“Lots of people use powerpoint and can't escape the microsoft ecosystem anyway.”
“I use PowerPoint for that.”
“Presentation: Keynote, InVision, Microsoft PowerPoint”
One problem which I've had working in this space is the difficulty of naming specific shapes --- worked up a list in my current project: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepreview.pdf (should be section 3.8.1.1 on pg. 97, not sure, since I need to push up an update) and I'd be glad of any comment or correction or point of improvement.
“Infinitely better than powerpoint or GSlides.”
I have made puppt cli for this, it includes high dpi rendering per-slide/all-slides and in place editing https://github.com/artpar/puppt it allows your llms to see the ppt files structurally apart from just rendering it
“using PowerPoint for Windows yesterday”
“Then I used PowerPoint via the browser and found this level of data loss is a regular occurrence.”
“My last PowerPoint game pushes the limits of what you can do”
“I used to make simple games and animations like that in PowerPoint.”
“I used it to create an interactive tour through a historic house in my home town.”
“You could make it yourself in 10 minutes, with PowerPoint”
“last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint”
“Powerpoint is on the other extreme, so every formula is painful”
“a few minutes trying various styles in PowerPoint”
“I made all of the diagrams in PowerPoint myself”
“there's an AI version now built into microsoft powerpoint”
“when PowerPoint was invented as it would kill all graphic design jobs”
“If there’s no alternative to PowerPoint, that should be treated as a plus, not as a problem.”
“There is really no alternative to PowerPoint on Linux, unfortunately.”
“it works shockingly well, with minor but important caveats”
“A light background just screams "PowerPoint presentation".”
“To be presented as a talk track to the Gettysburg Powerpoint”
“never going back to Keynote/PowerPoint”
“Then came PowerPoint.”
“not with PowerPoint itself but with AI coding agents”
“PowerPoint still uses the old overhead projector transparent slide paradigm”
“the "presenter awkwardly clicking around through an un-played Powerpoint" to be really unprofessional”
“frustrated with the back-and-forth of sharing PowerPoint files”
“Microsoft PowerPoint”
“I used to make similar in powerpoint, surprisingly it has good svg/obj support”
“I used it once for a fancy presentation and it worked fine.”
I'm building a "mail merge for PowerPoint": - https://pptxmailmerge.com Still in MVP mode - but it already made some sales. What's different about it from similar solutions is the way you can get data from an Excel file (most other companies have the JSON and CSV figured out). It supports Excel style addressing so it's pretty flexible on how you reach for the data inside a PowerPoint template (access every sheet, eve
“I had to use PowerPoint in the browser for the first time (I use Linux, so no native app) and… it turns out it's completely and utterly broken?”
“It's very odd that they propose PowerPoint as the Publisher replacement.”
“PowerPoint, despite it being unable to”
“I went back to PowerPoint, and with the same time it took me to make one lecture note in quadro, I could make 4 lectures notes in PowerPoint, and they were better.”
“making stickman animations in powerpoint of all things”