pretty persuasion

Apple's got a profile up on their website about a PowerPoint user. It's called Powers of Persuasion. Attorney Mark Lanier uses PowerPoint:Mac, and has lots of great things to say about it. :D .

Here's my favourite quote from that article:

Lanier soon found that his trusty Mac was valuable not just for saving time in prep, but for showing his best face in trial. "PowerPoint on the Mac has a built-in presentation mode that works so much better for me than the Windows version," he says. "It lets you preview your next slide on your computer screen only, while the current slide is being shown to the jury. And that made a huge difference in enabling me to move seamlessly from slide to slide with complete confidence. Because I always had a visual prompt of the next slide right in front of me, to smooth the transitions."

(Title from the R.E.M. song, which might have been a mistake on my part, because now I've got that song stuck in my head.)