Horrible Powerpoint graphics

[shootingstar]

I truly dislike PowerPoint. Five years ago I was offered a six figure job designing PowerPoint presentations. DH and I got all excited, we shopped around for a big house, new bikes, etc. But I just could not imagine spending every day of my life designing slideshows. Gack! That and I would have been required to wear a suit every day.

Wouldn't Powerpoint be quite limiting for anyone with graphic design skills/training?

Methinks some people create their business or academic Powerpoint slideshows as if they are like commercials or as if really they have the slideshow as a pretense ..for the print handouts themselves after the presentation.

One job included researching databases made up tons and tons of business Powerpoint presentations where I saw the godawful stuff. Probably many with recycled slideframes from other sources.

Even strictly from the perspective of textual marketing: way too many words are jammed into 1 frame too often.