Fun article. Still reading it.
Back around the turn of the century, my daughter needed to make a powerpoint presentation for a clss in her Senior year in HS. I helped her out.
We inserted images, music, photos and, of course text and graphics.
But being a computer programmer at the time, I knew how to test After we created it, we saved it to disk. We then took it to a different computer, loaded the disk, and the entire file had none of the images or music in it. Pictures were just big boxes with an x, etc.
That is when I learned about “exporting” rather than saving. So we did it right, burned another CD and it worked when we tested that one.
So, she and all her classmates gave their presentations. She got an A. She told me that hers was the only one that worked. :D
I had a similar problem recently, though. I taught a lesson about some Old Testament stuff and my main titles used a font that I downloaded to my desktop. It looked like ancient Hebrew script.
So I saved it to my Office 365 cloud account, and downloaded it to my wife’s touch screen laptop for the class. It seemed to be fine.
But when I got to class, I noticed it was using simple Ariel font where that one was supposed to be. The font needed to be loaded to my wife’s computer DOH!
I had to go with a different font. Fortunately I set up far enough in advance that I have time to fix stuff like that.
Powerpoint is extremely useful in business and teaching. It doens’t replace a written report. That’s what Word is for.
Can relate on the fonts issue, that’s a pain in the butt.
Word is a whole ‘nother can of worms. Most people don’t know how to really use it. If you aren’t using styles rigorously in any serious document, and don’t edit with paragraph marks turned on (formatting is carried in the paragraph marks), you probably don’t know how to properly use Word. If I’m dealing with a document someone else has created, I can tell in about 2s how Word-adept they are, or are not, by turning paragraph marks on and doing a quick inspection.
Agree on Word vs. PowerPoint.