This document is an excellent review without prejudices of a very common Office tool: PowerPoint. It is the proof that common tools are not necessarily good tools or professional tools.Only to mention that this sepparate chapter can be found included in the book "Beautiful Evidence", also by E. Tufte.

This short article - it is not long enough to be called a book - is more of a rant than useful instruction. Save your money. He has written several good books on data presentation; this is not one of them.

If there were a fan club for Edward Tufte, I would gladly sign up to be an officer. His three books changed the way I think about presenting information, and added the invaluable term "chartjunk" to my vocabulary. I was enormously excited to learn that he had written about Powerpoint and could hardly wait to lay my hands on the publication. Unfortunately, it wasn't worth the wait.To those thinking about buying this booklet (28 pages) let me save you the expense by summarizing it:PowerPoint slides don't have much information in them, and you're limited to a sequential presentation order.That's about it. His booklet is an extended indictment of the limitations of PowerPoint. Anyone interested in suggestions for Powerpoint improvements will find a refernce on the last page in a postscript to read the third chapter of his book, Visual Explanations, or visit his web site.Do that instead of reading this booklet.

Basically, this is an elegant set of arguments against using Power Point.... for anything. Everything that Power Point users hold near and dear are torn apart in this short treatment.The problem is that Tufte offers no way to use Power Point more effectively, except as a "low resolution slide projector." So, if you want to bash Power Point and are not looking for ways to improve your PPT presentations, this is the book for you.I bemoan the wholesale conversion of lecture slides and overheads to Power Point for no particular reason other than to "become contemporary." But paying even $8.00 for the privilege of being told not to use Power Point is probably not what most instructors have in mind.Spend a little more on The Visual Display of Quantitative Inormation and have something that truly teaches you something.

Tufte is an gifted analyst and communicator, but seems to have taken the easy way out on this publication. He rails against the limitations of PowerPoint, of which there are many, but does not provide much in the way of practical recommendations.

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