http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspxTake yourself back to that day in the mid eighties, in some smokey, Silicon Valley room where some developers were coming up with the ideas for a new application to help people do presentations. I don't think on the blackboard of brainstormed thoughtsen-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#673740Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:33:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:673740CarlGreat post - gonna send this to a few people who are zzzzz at presentations !http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#673899Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:09:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:673899WongGreat pointers! &nbsp;Some classics, some not so obvious.http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#674359Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:28:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:674359PaulQuote: Take yourself back to that day in the seventies probably, in Redmond in some smoky room where some developers were coming up with the ideas for a new application to help people do presentations... <br> <br>Or for the history of the real world where not everything is invented by Microsoft see <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Graphics">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Graphics</a> <br> <br>Although Harvard Graphics was first to market, a small company in Silicon Valley called Forethought had also been developing a presentation product for years; Forethought released its competing product for the Apple Macintosh, PowerPoint 1.0, in 1987. The next year, Microsoft purchased Forethought, and released ports of PowerPoint for MS-DOS and Windows 2.0.http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#674739Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:55:41 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:674739dstrangethanks for that Paul - quite right, a sloppy lack of research there. &nbsp;Post updated accordingly. &nbsp;I wonder if any of the original Forethought people still work at Microsoft. &nbsp;It would be interesting to talk to them about how they feel about how their vision played out wouldn't it? &nbsp;Cheers for keeping me accurate!http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#675924Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:48:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:675924Tim LongDarren, thanks for the tips, I'm sure they'll be very useful. I've seen you present so I can relate to some of the points you're making.http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#675931Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:52:52 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:675931Tim LongDarren Strange&amp;amp;nbsp;(a product evangelist for Office)&amp;amp;nbsp;has some useful tips on giving presentations...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#676733Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:58:39 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:676733DankoThank you for this post. I, too, will be spreading this word. <br> <br>I would also like to add a couple more: <br> <br>- Make boxes straight. It is very easy: use the shift key a lot or go to the 'align' option. <br> <br>- If you type in the number of a slide and the the return key, the presentation jumps to that slide. This really helps me if I am answering questions and want to return to part of my presentationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#677625Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:18:36 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:677625Matthew StibbeNice post. &nbsp;Have you seen Presentation Zen? &nbsp;Very nice website on this subject. &nbsp;Also, I heard someone say once: &quot;Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely&quot; and I thought it was funny! &lt;grin&gt; &nbsp;Keep up the good work.http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#677656Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:28:40 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:677656The UsefulTechnology Blog <br>My colleague Darren (he's not as effeminate as his photo would suggest) has written up a great post...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#677712Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:45:18 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:677712Mark Johnston's Developer ExperiencesDarren Strange&amp;amp;nbsp;is an Office Product Manager here in the UK and has posted a great blog entry&amp;amp;nbsp;about...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#681739Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:33:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:681739James O'Neill's blog <br> Inspired by Darren's recent post <br>Tagged as Microsoft Office Powerpoint http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#684509Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:27:52 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:684509Simon Thorneycroft and Jonathan HodgsonDarren Strange, the Microsoft Office Product Manager in the UK, has written up some great tips on giving...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#685322Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:22:21 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:685322BraddersDarren, great posting - will definately be forwarding onto the Communications Sector!http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#687671Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:55:40 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:687671MikeSyAnd, from the heading, I thought it was going to be another: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444.html</a>http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#687737Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:20:44 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:687737Office Rocker!Following on from my recent Death by PowerPoint post which was all about making presentations better...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#687934Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:24:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:687934Office PioneerRegardless of all the fabulous innovation that you can find in PowerPoint 2007 -&amp;amp;nbsp;easier slide transition...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#733602Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:08:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:733602Office Rocker!You might think it a bit cocky to start writing my memoirs of launch before the event but with my memory,...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#750020Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:40:25 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:750020FinServ BlogA friend says that Darren Strange, the UK Product Manager for the 2007 Microsoft Office System is the...http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#2219631Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:33:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:2219631Office Rocker!<p>A rather good article posted on presentationzen this week talked about new research from the University</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#5382389Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:28:01 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5382389Office Rocker!<p>If any of you were at the Nottingham Technet event last week, you were a witness to probably the worst</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#5382425Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:31:06 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5382425Office Rocker!<p>Following on from my recent Death by PowerPoint post which was all about making presentations better</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/archive/2006/07/21/presenting.aspx#9413893Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:02:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9413893 Rob Enderle<p>I'm writing this from a Microsoft Technology Summit where Microsoft executive after Microsoft executive is talking and -- OMG -- listening to an audience of mostly open source folks. One of the folks here referred to this as an &quot;open source brainwashing..</p>