am I "powerpoint" old?

[meanie]

I vote still relevant...

My mom uses it, she works in corporate relocation

DD is learning how to use it at school and makes slides for book reports, plus some of her teachers use it to create review materials

My company (big investment bank) still uses it for presentations

[ellipses84]

I hate these generational battles and I’m convinced Canva just marketed better to Young Millennials and GenZ on social media. I have picked up that everyone calls it a Deck now (slide deck) not PowerPoint, no matter what software it was created in. You can also make it a .pdf and open it in a .pdf reader if you don’t want to be judged 😆 Just make sure you know how to get in and out of presentation mode and any links you have work properly.

[Scout'sHonor]

Sept 27, 2024 8:07:56 GMT -5 mpc said:

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.

Same here, you'll get in trouble if you use a non-agency template.

[Leeham Rimes]

My kids use PowerPoint at school.

[gt7301b]

PowerPoint is what is used in my work and we can't access/edit Google Docs or Canva Slides. As an individual contributor I can't just decide I want to use another software product and things like Google Docs are explicitly blocked in my organization. My pet peeve is when people send me a Google Docs link after I have repeatedly told then that Google Docs is blocked.

[1confused1]

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.

Same. But government contractor, not military.

[heyyounotyouyou]

I work for an international company of over 100,000 people. We all use PowerPoint. We create sleds for everything, which is a different problem lol.

[felicity]

Apparently I’m so PowerPoint old that I thought Canva was something they just let kids use in school. I haven’t been in the corporate world in a while!

[jlt19]

I work for a Fortune 200 global company and we use the full MS suite. And by full, I mean that I literally make changes to our billing system using Access.

BUT I just got a Copilot license today and I’m really excited to use it to make some cool Power Points!

[icedcoffee]

Sept 27, 2024 19:49:37 GMT -5 jlt19 said:

I work for a Fortune 200 global company and we use the full MS suite. And by full, I mean that I literally make changes to our billing system using Access.

BUT I just got a Copilot license today and I’m really excited to use it to make some cool Power Points!

Oh good! Glad to hear we are not the only people still using Access. 😂

[sent]

Sept 27, 2024 9:53:00 GMT -5 ellipses84 said:

I hate these generational battles and I’m convinced Canva just marketed better to Young Millennials and GenZ on social media. 

But did they really? I'm an occasional Canva user and I pay for a Canva pro subscription at the office. It's unlike any program I've ever used before as a very casual computer user and I obviously mean that in a good way. Also it was easy to figure out. 

[ohgillian]

I didn’t even know that Canva made slides. I thought it was just some kind of graphic design program where you can make logos.

[penguingrrl]

I learned about canva from colleagues. As someone who hasn’t had much training in any computer stuff in along time no found it far more intuitive to use than anything I’ve done through Microsoft.