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I apologize if you see this twice.  Our news feed has been totally
flaky the last week, so I'm reposting.

   I need to buy a presentation program.  I currently own, but don't use
   PowerPoint.  I have used, but don't own Aldus Persuasion.  I tend to
   prefer Persuasion because of the integration between the outline and
   the slides.  It also seems to be a more mature product (and it's not
   >from Microsoft :-).  Between PowerPoint and Persuasion, I'd buy
   Persuasion.  However, I've heard good things about More 3.0.
   So, before I invest a few hundred, I'd like to hear from anyone who
   has used either, and *especially* from anyone who has used both about
   your likes and dislikes.  What particularly nice features does the
   program have?  What misfeatures does it have?  What is "impossible" to
   do with it?

   I tend to make fairly straightforward (academic) presentations, so
   lots of flashy features are not too useful to me.  Outlining is a
   plus, as is the ability to lay out a talk "hierarchically", with
   bullets on one slide expanding into the following slides (Persuasion
   does this, but I wish I could insert slides in the sequence that
   *didn't* appear as bullets in the next level up).

   I frequently go to 35mm slide or overhead; I almost never do a
   presentation on-line (although this may change, as "wired" classrooms
   become more common).

   Templates are useful, as they allow me to decide the "look" of the
   presentation separately from its content.  

   I liked PowerPoint's color schemes; it's much more difficult to change
   all the colors in Persuasion (to, e.g., change a slide presentation
   for black & white overheads).

   Please respond by mail.  I will summarize.
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=Spencer W. Thomas 		HSITN, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
spencer.thomas@med.umich.edu	313-747-2778