PowerPoint as a word processor

a book or a complex legal contract you probably rely on some of the more advanced word processing … PowerPoint as a word processor … PowerPoint or Keynote are perfect alternatives to word processing applications to write documents …

Breaking the step-by-step guide

Presentation design creative process.png … anything. Better design that one first. Hence, I stick to that zig zagging creative process. PS. Think …

Design process killers

Design process killers … with little energy for creativity inside them. Work has become a process to try to empty the in-tray …

Template request: process maturity

usually put up within 24 hours after asking for them.) Simply searching for ‘process’ in the app … Template request: process maturity …

"Do you have a standard process?"

agency that tries to scale up, there is no escaping to a formal process with specific end products at specific times. … "Do you have a standard process?" …

Monthly reports in PPT

, follow-up actions and quantified $$$ savings. So writing this report is a manual process: data gets … data graphs is much easier. And now that you have left word processing territory, why not cut the … goodbye to the word processor and leave it to authors of books. … . Microsoft Word (or any word processor) is not a good tool for creating data reports. It does not have the …

Soon: non-blocking print, PDF/PPT conversion

processes in parallel. In version 1.0 in SlideMagic, we were dreading doing these intensive computations … on our server, it would take a lot of processing power if the app were to scale (hence the imperfect … printer will no longer block the main process. I am getting the hang of managing dozens of different …

Slidedocs by Duarte

communication is getting shorter and shorter, and the role of word processors that used to write …

Trying out Medium

from the 1990s still cause dammage today (overhead transparencies, word processors). Medium allows …

Printing is working

start using it to my advantage by speeding things up. PowerPoint and PDF conversion will soon move to a background process. Photo by James Pond on Unsplash … beginning of my coding project I was cursing this parallel processing of lines of codes, no I actually … It was a painful process with lots of trial and error and wasted trees, but SlideMagic 2.0 beta …

App update: the finish line! (well, a finish line...)

with experimenting with PowerPoint macros to automate some processes for the template store Then I … , hard core image cropping and processing, drag-and-drop (tricky), shift-click selecting multiple objects … crazy long data charts, to name just a few abuses. Also, I am running everything on an i9 processor …

The multiple uses of PowerPoint

catalogue Project management and planning tool Word processor Story boarding tool Group brainstorming …

This presentation tool is not a presentation tool

do this than word processors. Online collaboration adds another option to manage multiple pens in …

Windows on Mac in 2018 (3)

I upgraded my setup to the latest MacBook Pro (the i5 processor started to struggle with some of my …

Bad 1990s design habits

whatever you needed to fill easily. Word processors enabled us to ponder a sentence over and over … . We were not trained to write razor sharp newspaper headings. In a word processor, the time it takes …

Flypaper - flash technology for the layman

graphics processing power often does not give the best results in the hands of the layman (the target … PowerPoint would run). The bad: a slightly tricky installation process (you need the latest Microsoft … complex products/processes "Girl effect"-style presentations I have not had a change to test the online …

Thoughts on user interfaces

interface. Spreadsheets, word processors (who uses them still?) and presentation design software …

Good slideocuments versus bad bullet point slides

PowerPoint (and Keynote) can be very useful alternatives to word processors: It is easy to set up a …

Working on improved image cropping

difficult in presentation software (it is only worse in word processors), and that bit is solved by the …

Presentation design phases

is calm. I find that a long-hand story board written in a word processor is equal to phase 1.5 … result: a lot of stress and sleepless nights. So what to do? Early in the process, move from phase … Every presentation design effort goes through a similar process flow: Brainstorm of the content …