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This is exactly what the OP didn't ask for. He wants to learn the software. He doesn't want to learn how to present.
by basdp 10y ago
This is exactly what the OP didn't ask for. He wants to learn the software. He doesn't want to learn how to present.
- richardboegli 10y agoOP did ask for "best practices"
- tawayway 10y agoI may not have been clear enough in the OP. Yes, I want to learn the software and not general presentation skills. I usually know what I need in a document, I just want to spend less time putting it together. To edit text files quickly I learnt vim commands, I'd like to find something similar to take the sting out of working with PP. Keyboard driven workflows, advanced features etc. Right now I am doing a lot of clicking, a lot of inserting textboxes, changing text formats and dragging things around on slides. I would like to type and hit a few shortcuts as I go to arrange things. I appreciate people suggesting rules for numbers of slides and tips for preparing to speak but that isn't what the problem is.
- na85 10y agoMy mistake. I guess it didn't occur to me that a HN user wouldn't know how to use powerpoint.
- tawayway 10y agoI know how to use it in the sense that everyone knows how, the basic usage is drag-and-drop. I just have no interest in spending a large chunk of my day dragging-and-dropping if it can be avoided (through automation, templating, shortcuts etc). When you prepare slides several times a year you can get by with the usual method, when it's weekly I would rather spend a couple of hours upfront learning the software inside out. I thought this would be apparent to HN users from the OP.