Yesterday I tried to use PowerPoint. But it wasn't much fun. I have some overhead transparencies to make for a presentation, and PowerPoint gave me that tight-shoulder, swimming-through-molasses feel that makes computing less than fun. The disconnect between what my mind desired and what my screen displayed was too great for contentment.

So I went back to MORE. I haven't used MORE for years to do overheads, but I got back in the swing very quickly. And compared to PowerPoint, MORE is so fast, so flexible, so tweakable. Only odd thing -- the transitions between slides (not much concern for overheads) don't take into account the speed of modern processors. ZIP! Small matter.

I was grateful to see that the modern color picker options (such as the Crayon Box) are available in MORE.

Nothing like progess, PowerPoint on a 266 mHz PII machine at work runs about one quarter as fast as More or Persuasion 2.0 on my LC630 at home (not to mention a G3). Of course, PowerPont make prettier slides but I find text formatiing, etc. to be much more difficult.