PowerPoint has been annoying audiences since its invention in the 20th century by being misused and lacking imagination. In the past, presentations often overused default templates, fonts, clipart, bullet points, animations, and readings slides verbatim, boring audiences. Now, presentations have moved on by breaking conventions, ditching bullet points, using unique images, having slides support spoken words, and focusing on being fun rather than following outdated rules.

1. PowerPoint Annoying audiences since the 20th Century!

2. Once upon a time, a presentations programme was invented and many saw it And they saw that it was pretty good

3. It was used by High Flyers Across the globe Microsoft® Presents: PowerPoint for Presentations: A great piece of software: Set to cause misery for decades by misuse and lack of imagination

4. We were treated to graphs And clip art And meaningless tables

5. And usually with some seriously whizzy animation

6. It was all very 80s

7. We went on courses in the 90s We used default fonts (or even Comic Sans) We overloaded on clipart We had loads of bullet points on a slide We animated everything And committed the cardinal sin of reading off a slide We had too much text in each point We used the slide templates, same as everyone else did… And we bored our audiences silly Oh, and did I mention the backgrounds? When you’ve seen one background you’ve seen them all really…. And we were still stuck in the times design forgot

8. We followed the herd

9. We caused death by PowerPoint

10. Luckily we’ve moved on

11. Back to the 21st Century

12. First, Break All the rules

13. Ditch the bullet points today

14. Use your own cool images if you have them, or use royalty free images

15. Let your slides support your words

16. Have fun! info@6thlevel.co.uk