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Hi :)  
PowerPoint is slightly in the lead imo (and from posts on the lists) but only by about £10-£20 
worth.  Impress is developing faster so that slight edge may not last for long.  There are shed 
loads of other programs for producing slideshows and many are free
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_software

The basic concept is flawed.  Like playing a video it tends to put quite a lot of the audience to 
sleep or into zombie-like, tele-watching mode.  Bullet-pointed assertions at best just serve to 
stop people thinking hard about the subject and neatly avoid any of the detail, "the devil is in 
the detail".  Apparently the military like them for press briefings because it's style over content 
so it helps them minimise how much they tell.  On the other hand it seems many dislike them in 
mission briefings because they obscure the depth of information required for success.  

Flip charts are more effective at engaging the audience and getting them thinking.  Interactive.  

If you have a good presentation on Impress/PowerPoint/whatever then why would it need you?  Just 
upload it to YouTube.  

At events i tend to have a slideshow going on in the background in the lobby or in the bar.  
Sometimes parts of it catch people's attention enough to help boost their conversation, or to 
distract them from going tooo far off-topic.  But i don't use anything fancy, just a normal 
photo-viewer.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





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From: Gilles <codecomplete@free.fr>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 22:32
Subject: [libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

Hello

Before possibly recommending LibreOffice to a friend who needs an office
suite for her personal use, I need to know how  good its Impress component
is compared to PowerPoint.

She won't need to create very sophisticated slides, and won't need to import
PowerPoint files. It's just to create some presentations for her class. She
has regular office skills, she's not a geek.

If you have extensive experience with both PowerPoint and Impress, would you
say Impress is good enough or still lacking?

Here's a review:
"Admittedly, PowerPoint still outperforms Impress, yet not by such an extent
that the difference couldn't be overcome in a release or two. In fact, the
lack of improvements in Impress over the last few years -- particularly in
its audio capabilities -- suggests that for most users the deficiencies are
unimportant."

www.datamation.com/open-source/libreoffice-vs.-ms-office-spreadsheets-and-slide-shows-1.html

Thank you.



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