PowerPoint is not inherently evil. ... I’m a good storyteller, I don ... a 12-year-old because it’s free and he just took a PowerPoint class. I know a lot about slide design but my outside ...

That's not true. I've seen more terrible slide presentations in my life than good ones, but that stat isn't necessarily an indictment of the program—I've also encountered a lot more terrible ...

PowerPoint, however, is much less than a necessary evil. It’s a tool that, even when used as intended, does not fulfill its primary purpose, which is to help you communicate more effectively ...

Make your headline, if you need one, a complete sentence. Here’s why. Rather than saying, “Implications of Cost-Cutting on the Department,” or some such, a full sentence will force you to ...

Not long ago, data display maven and Yale Professor Edward Tufte caused a minor stir when he called Microsoft Corp.’s PowerPoint presentation software “evil,” and sniped that “Power ...

Even worse, Tufte noted, PowerPoint enables presenters to evaluate their talks based on slide format rather than content. "Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and ...