We all have encountered one time or the other folks going through slides one by one, reading every line and we as audience doom scrolling on our phones or nodding to show to great interest based on who is presenting.
In the very old days, there used to be projectors and slide sheets in which we used to draw using markers and project it, those were the days when there was more intellectual freedom for the presenter and also for the audience to see the human written alphabets, those days are never going to come back, unless AGI takes back to those due to some Armageddon event.
Now that power points stays here are situations NOT to use power point
1, Responses to RFQs
2, Scientific reports
3, Engineering reports
4, Under-graduate level project reports
The reason is using power points leads to:
1, Collection of bullet points which are fragment of thoughts and not complete ideas
2, The nesting of bullets makes it even more convoluted with additional meta messaging which might be missed by the audience.
3, Reading slides offline by others lead to lot of assumptions about the presenter with no chance to clarify
The only times IMHO power point can be used is for non serious communications, like town-halls, fun events, marketing events and the kind.
Happy word processing and good bye to ppts.
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