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# Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck (Third Edition) Paperback – June 15, 2012

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    Fun and usable book even for PowerPoint junkies
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 2, 2012*

GREAT book.  It's entertaining, practical, and has a variety of before/after looks at slides.  It's almost a reality show about PowerPoint, presentations, and how to make them better.  Not to overstate--it's inspiring!Rick--after reading the book twice, I feel as if I know him personally--does a good job of reminding us that PowerPoint is the vehicle, but the presenter is the driver.  So ultimately a good or bad presentation is what the speaker makes of it.  He shows how to design and create slides that bring out the best in presenters while keeping the audience interested.Admittedly I'm a bit of a PowerPoint junkie.  I enjoy using PowerPoint to create something I want to present, not read.  The book motivated me to create my own before/after slides, and I'm hoping to get more colleagues to do the same.  Like many companies, we're drowning in slides, and yet as slides multiply, they seem to get worse, not better.  Rick provided impetus to rethink slides, to simplify them, and to DESIGN not just create.  He provided some techniques that I had been vaguely aware of but had not used.  Now they have become part of my slide design repertoire.  He also had a few tips and tricks that I had not known (or had forgotten), so I'm a better PowerPoint junkie as a result.At the same time, for those who are not as comfortable with PowerPoint or who had used older versions, the book offers detailed information on how to accomplish impressive effects without a lot of effort.So, the bottom line....  The book is useful whether you create PowerPoint presentations or present them, whether you're an accomplished PowerPoint 2010 user or not.  You will learn some good presenting techniques. You will probably wince as you see some of the "before" slides and think, "Oh no, those look like some of mine!"  And you'll have fun.

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    Overhyped and falsely-advertised
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2013*

On the positive side, I agree with some other reviewers that Altman makes some very good points in a humorous and lighthearted way. However, while this book will get me to look at some of my presentations a bit differently, and there are some good tips, it certainly does NOT need to be on every presenters bookshelf. Actually, at times I had to wonder if I read the same book as some of the other reviewers.Very annoyingly, as another disappointed reviewer also pointed out, Amazon is representing the printed version as being in color, while the printed version Amazon is selling is, in fact, in black and white...and with low resolution figures at that. What gives, as clearly a color version DOES exist? Unfortunately, this lack of color/resolution and false advertising definitely biased my view of this book. It's not fair to blame Mr. Altman for Amazon's mistake in the "Look Inside", but he should take steps to correct this problem.Given that this is a book about PRESENTATIONS, and one with a fairly condescending title at that (some might call it humorous, guess for $18, I didn't get the joke), it should have COLOR (or at least higher resolution) figures. Clearly, color is an extremely important tool that is used well in the best presentations, yet Altman obviously could not cover that subject well. Also, the figures are so grainy that I could barely read some of the screen shots. In fact, the sample photos that were used to show resolution differentials were useless, given that the resolution levels of the original photos were clearly much higher than ANY of the photos published in the book. These are such shortcomings in the book that they are deal-kilers for me. That, combined with Amazon's false advertising, means that this one's going back. I feel embarrassed for Altman, because he let the publisher shove what COULD have been a really good book into the "irrelevant" pile that sits on the floor with the other books written with the best ideas and intentions.Mr. Altman, if you're out there, please have a nice chat with your publisher about getting a larger budget for the printing of the next edition of this book. All the best to you.-M

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    Trying to get my whole comapny to read
  

*by E***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2012*

I bought this book for pointers as I prepare for my first solo presentation at a national conference. The title caught me because I was really feeling like my draft already sucked! I am in a design profession so I felt like I had already been doing things with PowerPoint that others, including making wedding invitations and, I have a good graphic eye for color, and proportion. So I'm already ahead of the game, yes? Nevertheless, I learned lots of tricks in the first few chapters that are pretty exciting for a long time user and lover of the software.I higly recommend this read for those of you who think you have PowerPoint presentations under your belt. Reading it definately won't hurt the precious master presentation you were planning on using . . . again.

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