Welcome to PowerPoint 12!

re: Welcome to PowerPoint 12!

Jay Warsaw — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:14:17 GMT

"Slide Library – Store and share slides for reuse. Even get notified if the original slide gets updated!"

I am very interested in this functionality. We use SQL Server and Sharepoint Services but not SharePoint Portal. Will we need to buy SharePoint portal to use this functionality?

re: Welcome to PowerPoint 12!

Jon Peltier — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:11:39 GMT

The new graphics rendering is a nice enhancement to Office.

That said, let me thank you for illustrating a problem with the way everyone uses PowerPoint to graphically portray their data. The default PowerPoint chart types have pseudo-3D effects, and this visual effect spills into Excel as well, where many people want the "nicer" appearance of 3D charts.

Those concerned with accurate displays of data use 2D charts for 2D data. The addition of a false third dimension perhaps makes the chart more attractive (well, in Ppt12 at least), but it does not enhance the accurate display of the data, and it may in fact reduce accuracy.

In the two older charts, it is fairly clear that the values are 150 and 225, because the 3D columns at least extend to the gridlines, and you can see where they intersect.

In the new charts (I wish you'd used the same data for your illustration), the actual values are not as certain. The depth of the chart is more than that of the columns, so the height of each column is open for interpretation. The 1Q value is obviously more than 15, and while the 20 gridline is visible above the column, this is caused by the parallax effect, and the value is probably between 20 and 25. The 2Q value is probably above 25, although the 25 gridline appears above the column. The false third dimension adds a degree of freedom ("degree of uncertainty"?), as does the oblique view of the chart, in which the sides are no longer parallel, but extend toward some vanishing point on the horizon. This is good artistic technique, but bad data treatment.

This is fine if your charts are simple (2 data points), qualitative (gee, 2nd quarter was better than 1st), or intended to mislead (but nobody does that!). However, as the chart becomes more complicated, and as it is intended to display data more rigorously, the 3D effects are merely an obstacle.

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Chart styles problem

SlashDotJunkie — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:26:40 GMT

I'll second Jon's: these two default chart syles are terrible! 3-d is bad for reading data. Not only that, but the typeface used for labels is tiny, maybe 10% pixel size of the title! 8(

re: Welcome to PowerPoint 12!

Ole from Norway — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:43:23 GMT

I've used PowerPoint a lot since 1996, and I welcome the the new improved design features very much. I’ve made a lot of multimedia-heavy presentations and pushed the programs’ multimedia capabilities to it’s limits. Unfortunately I find it lacking especially in the video-department. I feel the video integration of the previous versions has not been very effetive especially when it comes to fullscreen video-files, spanning tens or hundreds of megabytes. I wonder if the new version improves on this?

I assume PowerPoint is built around the same engine as Windows Media Player. Still I find PP2003 to be way much slower than the latter when playing a large video-file, both in terms of codec initialization, (local) file-streaming and playback performance. To better integrate fullscreen video, the best option has been using third-party church-presentation-programs which support large fullscreen video-files as well as PowerPoint slides effectively.

ZDNet recently commented on PP12:
"Splashy new graphics aside, we don't notice any better ways to integrate multimedia content, such as music or videos, into PowerPoint files. Nor does this update offer better time-tracking or other tools to help you manage your presentations in real time." http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39024105,39237375,00.htm

re: Welcome to PowerPoint 12!

Brian Morton — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:45:59 GMT

While not add a random slide show feature.
This would be great for student who want to use Powerpoint slides as a flashcard learning system.

re: Welcome to PowerPoint 12!

Brian Morton — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:47:17 GMT

While not add a random slide show feature.
This would be great for student who want to use Powerpoint slides as a flashcard learning system.

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