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What is the best Microsoft PowerPoint alternative?

Posted by Michael under Entrepreneur Resources

Perhaps the best looking, and most intuitive alternative I’ve seen is Prezi, a completely new way of creating presentations.

How Prezi works

It’s a Flash-based tool, which allows for visualisation and storytelling, rather than PowerPoint’s strictly linear presentation system.

There’s a simple editing system that inserts images and text, video, Flash files and allows the user to draw lines to show the relationships between each item. This gives a ‘visual map’ something like a mind map which can be zoomed in and out of, and navigated by clicking into content displayed.

Learn more about Prezi

How to use it

Because it’s designed in Flash, it’s an easy application to use, once you get the hang of the basic concept of a map rather than individual slides. This learning curve can be eased if you use the online video help which shows you how to do some of the more complex actions such as positioning and resizing objects using Zebra.

What it costs

Prezi has three pricing structures: Free, Enjoy (around £37 per year), and Pro (around £108 per year). The difference comes in storage space on one hand, Free has 100 MB of storage on the Prezi site, Enjoy has 500 MB and Pro has 2000 MB, and in privacy on the other – Enjoy and Pro both let you you’re your presentations private and Pro gives you a downloadable desktop softward setup, while Free and Enjoy require you to design online by uploading your content to the server.

Why use it?

Prezi looks fabulous; it’s a much more stylish way of sharing information and it allows each information user to navigate the content in their own way, so it’s much more exciting both to create and to share.

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