I think you'd be surprised. The latest PowerPoint versions are surprisingly powerful. Duarte Design did some work with it to demonstrate it's power. However, I

I think you'd be surprised. The latest PowerPoint versions are surprisingly powerful. Duarte Design did some work with it to demonstrate it's power. However, I would acknowledge that it's painstaking to make a deck that pretty because some of the elements like fonts are not built in and PowerPoint's interface doesn't necessarily make it straightforward to change the elements that make this deck stand out to you.