I have since switched to Adobe InDesign and have forever bid my farewell to Microsoft PowerPoint. I realized after considerable self-criticism that this failure had nothing to do with my design skills, but everything to do with the limited features that Microsoft PowerPoint has to offer. However, those ‘helpful’ tools have limited our creative capabilities and have caused page after page of repetitive, often dull graphics.įor years I attempted to construct the perfect, most visually stimulating designed PowerPoint presentation, and failed miserably. I must admit, Microsoft has created an extremely user friendly piece of design software. Overall, PowerPoint is an updated version of an old-fashioned slide projector with the combination of built in wizards and templates to aid the user in adding text, graphics, and designs in attempt to enhance the presentation’s appeal. Don’t even get me started on the clichéd built-in clip art.
Most of the time, these presentations are created using Microsoft PowerPoint and suffer from excessive bullets, oversized headlines, and awful backgrounds. On Wednesday's, I post quick tips for Adobe apps.As a marketer with a strong design background, I would often pay closer attention to the graphic quality of a presentation than the presentation itself. For building presentations in InDesign, your best bet is still to export a PDF and present in Acrobat. If Adobe intended for you to use this mode to show presentations, they would have supported transitions. Those transitions aren't shown in Presentation mode. Users can add transitions in InDesign that export with a PDF file. Although it seems clear to me that isn't Adobe's intention with the feature. And if you are like me and build "PowerPoint" presentations in InDesign, it will be nice to preview your artwork in full screen mode before you export to PDF.Ĭould you actually use InDesign to show a presentation? I suppose you could. Presentation mode will be helpful when showing artwork to clients and coworkers. It's very similar to Full Screen Mode in Acrobat. Or you can click to advance and shift-click to go back.
You can page between them using arrow keys. So, what is Presentation mode? It hides the palettes and toolbar and displays only your InDesign document surrounded by black.
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