Something that PowerPoint desperately needs: a way to give the user an approximation of what your presentation will look like from a certain distance away.
After watching the presentations in my stats class last night and a "this is our new direction" presentation at work this morning, I realized that most people think that you can read teeny-tiny graphs and text on a slide when you are on the other side of the room. You can't. Get over yourself and use a large font.
So, PowerPoint needs a way for you to type in the size of the screen you're using for your presentation and give you the opportunity to see how your presentation will look from 10, 20, 40, 80 etc. feet away. It would be much easier to see if your text or graphs are too small.
People, please, for my eyes sake, use a larger font!
After watching the presentations in my stats class last night and a "this is our new direction" presentation at work this morning, I realized that most people think that you can read teeny-tiny graphs and text on a slide when you are on the other side of the room. You can't. Get over yourself and use a large font.
So, PowerPoint needs a way for you to type in the size of the screen you're using for your presentation and give you the opportunity to see how your presentation will look from 10, 20, 40, 80 etc. feet away. It would be much easier to see if your text or graphs are too small.
People, please, for my eyes sake, use a larger font!
posted by Amanda at 1:19 PM
1 Comments:
Powerpoint already has a Zoom tool. Doesn't perceived distance drop off like 1/r^2 or something like that? Maybe there's a simple remapping that could be applied to the zoom box...one calculation, and Poof! The MS PowerPoint Slide Distance Simulator (TM).
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