am I "powerpoint" old?

[jennistarr1]

someone in a meeting today was like "I'm sorry, but seriously who uses powerpoint anymore"...I raised my hand and they were like "oh"

I've definitely done a fair amount of things on canva but still prefer powerpoint for actual presentations. I believe a fair amount of our faculty on campus do too? 

Am I old AF?

[AdaraMarie]

I am if you are! I rarely use any slides but that is the program I would use. My kids only know Google slides.

[Deleted]

I still use PowerPoint, but I’m both old (well, 43) AND in the military. Military LOVES PowerPoint. You can pry it out of my cold dead hands.

[sadie]

I design in Canva and export to ppt slides. I like the templates in Canva better.

[circa1978]

Canva is so much better. But idk if it is age related. I also loathe Microsoft Word and have no idea why people don't just use Google docs. It's about usability for me and people of all ages benefit from that!

[sandandsea]

We use the full Microsoft office suite at my work. I live in Excel and use PPt and Word often.

[thebreakfastclub]

That's a weird thing to say in a meeting. I use the software that my company provides, which is PowerPoint. I can't install my own software on company systems.

I don't design things, I create decks with bullet points and some excel charts. People 20 years younger than me are doing the same things.

[RoxMonster]

I use it on an almost-daily basis. The instructor-led trainings we create in my role utilize PPT for the deck (we use other tools for additional materials and resources). PPT can actually do a lot of neat things and look really cool if done well! I like using it.

[wanderingback]

Someone I was working with started our presentation on canva, so I went with it. Whoa, what a learning curve. It does look nice though but I’m not rushing to use it again lol.

I exclusively use Google slides these days. My PowerPoint and word accounts are no longer active.

[isabel]

My company uses Microsoft products, so I work in PowerPoint a lot.

I do work for a construction company and there’s definitely a somewhat old school mentality around some things, but I don’t feel like using PowerPoint is outdated. Lots of companies continue to use the Microsoft suite. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[livinitup]

There is PowerPoint and then there is PowerPoint.

Even in its heyday, I sat through some awful PP presentations. (Always at the health department! was it a state requirement?)

You can develop some more than good presentations using PowerPoint AND interesting links and creative slides. You can also use some other platforms, software, etc. I went to my DD’s high school tonight for curriculum night. They are doing some impressive work. In high school!

[Patsy Baloney]

🙄

Youths.

[SusanBAnthony]

My company uses PPT. So does..... every big company I've ever interacted with. The 21 year old interns use it. SYing only old people use it is very out of touch with corporate America.

[kath16]

My company uses PowerPoint a lot. Like, a LOT. We have a whole team that takes your slides and pretties them up.

[rhian]

I also prefer PowerPoint personally, but my college students mostly use Google Slides. I'm sure they think I'm old for using PowerPoint! Many also use Google Docs instead of Word for papers. This has been true for several years. I think many are used to using Google products in high school, and just stick with afterwards.

[sent]

I barely make slideshows but when I do, I use Keynote on my Mac. The last time I made one (two years ago), I used Canva to create a fun custom background and then imported the background into Keynote to put together the presentation.

In 2021 when DD was third grade, she kept telling me she had to make slides for an assignment and I had no idea what she was talking about. When she finally showed me, she was referring to Google Slides. I had never seen Google Slides prior to this. As she went through it, I realized it was like Power Point and showed her how to fix and change some things. We both were very confused by each other that day. She was confused why I kept calling it Power Point yet I knew how to use the program even though I had never seen it before. I was confused why a 3rd grader was making a slide show.

[liverandonions]

We have to use PPT at work

[fernweh]

PowerPoint is the standard at my company. We had a license with Google and used slides for a couple years but they recently moved back to Microsoft.

[ssmjlm]

Sept 26, 2024 19:05:04 GMT -5 @villainv said:

I still use PowerPoint, but I’m both old (well, 43) AND in the military. Military LOVES PowerPoint. You can pry it out of my cold dead hands.

Yes they do.

I don't really care the vehicle that is providing the slides, but they are a very big part of my job as a whole whether it's training, providing data in an easy read format, etc.

[slbride2003]

Also work for a larger corporation that uses Microsoft, so I basically live in Power Point and Teams.
DS uses Google Slides since our school system uses Google and the kids all have Chromebooks.
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[midwestmama]

My company uses the MS Office suite of products, so I use PowerPoint, Excel, and Word all the time. My kids (8th & 9th grades) use Google Slides for school.

[scm1011]

I work in Consulting (so most people are in their early 20s) and we use PPT extensively.

[fancynewbeesly]

I use all three.

PowerPoint is my least favorite-mostly because it is on my work computer but not my home so I can’t access it at home.

I teach google slides to my classes for tech

But I do a LOT of my introduction lessons in Canva. I love love the short cuts for timers and confetti and bubbles appear on the screen. Canva designs really holds the interest of K-2. I usually do the objectives/materials used/etc in Canva.

[jane6672]

PPT is the only thing approved for use at work.

For personal professional stuff, like conferences, I use Google Slides (because free).

I’ve used Canva for white boarding and layout stuff, but not for presentations.

[mpc]

I'm a Fed and we use powerpoint for everything. We have predesigned templates we have to use too. There is no place for creativity lol.

This thread reminded me that when I was a sophomore in college my professor assigned a project in Excel. I had to go up to him after class and ask what that was. I can't fathom now how I didn't know by then.

[Jalapeñomel]

I haven't used PP in years. We use Google Slides.

[Jalapeñomel]

Sept 26, 2024 20:51:26 GMT -5 rhian said:

I also prefer PowerPoint personally, but my college students mostly use Google Slides. I'm sure they think I'm old for using PowerPoint! Many also use Google Docs instead of Word for papers. This has been true for several years. I think many are used to using Google products in high school, and just stick with afterwards.

It also saves everything to the cloud, so they can't lose what they've worked on.

[fancynewbeesly]

The one thing I can't use google docs for easily is labels. I have to use word for that. I print labels a lot at work, and word is just easier for it.

[konapoppy]

I don’t know how people use google suite for work. Google sheets is brutal.

I use PPT for work. I am struggling to learn Canva for my volunteer roles.

[joy]

I’m in pharma. We use powerpoint constantly.

We need the info communicated. The heart of the communication is the words the presenter is saying, not the “prettiness” of the program. Fancy slides will never save a bad presenter.

I think what I’m trying to say is Canvas, PowerPoint, Google Slides, whatever. Present well with whatever you got, youngin’.