I call that the Microsoft Office Syndrome. Tools such as Excel or PowerPoint are almost "too good" as in they allowed users to come up with usage which aren't

I call that the Microsoft Office Syndrome. Tools such as Excel or PowerPoint are almost "too good" as in they allowed users to come up with usage which aren't what the software was made for. As others have said regarding Excel, it's not so much what it's capable of but what you do with it and how you do it. I've seen people using Excel as a tool for trading, as an inventory database for a warehouse, as a shared database to track task progress, as a Gantt chart, as a calendar and so on. PowerPoint is the same. Who hasn't been given a PPT file as a manual for something? "Oh, it's all in the powerpoint". Or been given the same kind of file to familiarize yourself about something at your (new) workplace. Issue is you rarely have any of the material the speaker used to present the whole thing so you're left wondering about the meaning of it all while reading bullet point lists... No, a powerpoint is not a proper doc... So in a way, I have to applaud MS as they did great with these but almost too great...