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Run a list of rolling credits at the end of your PowerPoint presentation

There is a piece of software out there that will allow you to lift the photos from a PDF file.

Sorry, but I seem to spend my life looking out for typos in other peoples' presentations.

Geof you are not alone. You will never run out of typos. I have just put a similar complaint on ZDNet.

I always wonder this -- I work hard to avoid typos and mistakes, but... being human, I do make them. In this case, it hardly matters -- the point I'm trying to communicate is still made. It's not that I don't care or that I'm lazy or that I'm unprofessional -- I'm just a normal human being like everyone else, who occasionally... misses something. The fact that tr readership is seeing those mistakes doesn't really bother me because most are like me -- they see it, shrug their shoulders a bit, maybe chuckle, and go on.

Susan I know all people make mistakes and typos. The point I made in my comment on ZDNet was that spell checkers and proof reading should eliminate most. The ones that will always get through without proof reading are those that are proper words but not the intended one as in your case think instead of thank.

Editing your own work is hard. Our brains know what we meant and therefore, that's what our brains read. You're right, spell and grammar-checkers catch a lot (thank goodness!) and I rely on them. I have several pairs of words that cause me trouble: snake and snack, whip and wipe are just two of them. Even knowing this, I still miss them occasionally. I think this is the first time this has happened with think and thank!

I like this tip on PowerPoint credits, think you! ;P
Please ignore the grammar Nazis and keep writing. They obviously have too much time on there hands. They're nitpicking is probably symptomatic of serious constipation. I would edit a quote from Ratatouille as: "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy, the exception being defecation."
By the way, you silly trolls, try plugging this into Word:

We'd like to think the following people.

In Word 2003, at least, the grammar check didn't catch this.

Lest the trolls are daft and incapable of sardonic wit, erroneous grammar in this comment is intentional.

Susan, I liked the suggestions in your article; I think it is gracious to thank the contributors to your presentation and if I was in the audience I would think more highly of the presenter for doing that. However, I find your indifferent attitude about publishing a professional article with errors surprising and appalling.

Yes, I try not to let errors through, but they seem to get through with some regularity (mostly because I didn???t take the time to re-read my email or document one last time before I sent it). And I am mortified ??? at least briefly ??? when I discover my sloppiness. Your spelling error would have been forgivable if you had simply apologized to your readers for it, but this uncaring attitude towards your audience and peers seems to be at odds with what I took to be the tone of your article.

I am sorry I missed that typo.

A simple typo doesn't elicit those strong emotions in me, but I respect your opinion on the matter.

"About Susan Harkins
Susan Sales Harkins is an IT consultant, specializing in desktop solutions. Previously, she was editor in chief for The Cobb Group, the world's largest publisher of technical journals."

Wow, and she still uses Office 2003 on a windows 98 layout and misspelled her PowerPoint presentations.

Anyway, it's not that important; I think that over animated PowerPoint presentations can lead to something non-professional.We all saw one day a presentation with ???vroom-vroom???, ???Zaaap??? and other sound and animations in PowerPoint. I remember, each time it was an old grandpa or a very young employee who doesn???t know how computer really work. I always thought it was non-professional.

...that audiences enjoy animations, but it's not so. Fortunately, most of us went through that phase long ago, about the time of website animations.

BTW tthis works on LibreOffice, too.

Let's take advantage of the situation. Have you ever found a typo in the middle of your live presentation? What did you do? If this hasn't happened to you yet, how do you think you'd handle the situation?

that all the volunteers in the spelling police need to find something more constructive to waste their time than being critical... Like they never made a mistake themselves...

If they had caught it on time, it wouldn't be there, would it? What about the ones they (the critics themselves) did not catch?

Thank you Susan for the information. While not the most important thing to know it is nonetheless something that will impress some people and it has its uses.