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HI-CHART Templates '10

HI-CHART Templates '08

HI-CHART Templates '07

Here a few personal comments:

A presentation is a speech, and speeches depend primarily upon the speakers. In the PowerPoint "culture," speakers often act as if it's enough to simply show a few slides - and then they're done with their presentation. Speakers love it in such a world - they don't have to prepare, everything's already covered nicely in the "PowerPoints" - and those are usually lists of exhibits consisting of text - waiting to be read...

"Send me your presentation" is often synonymous with "Send me your PPT file." 

My criticism of the PowerPoint "culture" should not be taken to mean that I am against PowerPoint as a product. Quite the contrary. You can work extremely productively with PowerPoint, the program is easy to operate, it is high-performing, and offers numerous options for application (if you're aware of the tricks). PowerPoint is ideally suited to display pictures: A picture is worth a thousand words is a familiar saying. Unfortunately, you rarely find pictures in the PowerPoint culture which are worth two sentences. On the contrary: Speakers often need a lot of words to explain their pictures... 
Criticism of the PowerPoint "culture," the "decorative accompaniment of a lecture by a film running more or less synchronously in the background," has been around for years. But in many organizations, PowerPoint has simply "settled in," and speakers don't even dare to appear in front of an audience without colorful pictures.

If this situation unavoidable, if the negative side of PowerPoint (in other words, bullet lists and texts on the wall) cannot be prevented, then the two following examples can at least help to reduce this lack of culture to a tolerable level.

(Rolf Hichert)

Presentation view (parallel mode)
Bosses like to set their computer in such a way that their cheat-sheets (the apparently unavoidable bullet lists and text exhibits) are not shown to the audience:

The screen of the speaker shows in one window what the projector is presenting; beneath this are notes with the lecture details and a preview of the next slides on the left.

As a result, pictures can even be skipped (unnoticed by the audience), see the image on the left (can be enlarged via mouseover).