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So while this post is about an easy way to make PowerPoint presentations, it is really about the power of having your text formatted with Markdown!īefore proceeding, it is important to point out that there are many different flavors of Markdown.

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What is great about Markdown is that the code is so simple and easy to use that (unlike LaTeX) it barely takes any time to learn.Īnother advantage of Markdown is that it makes it easy to move text from one app to another, or to transform text into a web page, Microsoft Word Document, PDF, or PowerPoint presentation without too much fuss. Making the style information visible solves that problem because if something goes wrong, you can immediately see the problem. Isn’t that a step backwards? Isn’t the whole point of using computers so I don’t need to see the hidden code that styles my text? But if you’ve ever copied text and lost your formatting, or struggled when your word processing seems to think your text should be in a different style than what you expected, you know that computers don’t always behave the way we want. The idea is simple enough: where a rich text editor would show you text in italics or bold using WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), a Markdown editor will display them like this: *italics* or **bold**. Although Markdown started as a geeky tool for people who wanted a simple way to design webpages, it has since gained popularity for all kinds of writing as more and more text editors and note taking apps make it the default way to style your text. But sometimes we are running late, or just feeling lazy, or maybe even have a good reason 1 for using text-heavy slides, so today I’m going to show you the quickest, laziest, way to turn a text file into a presentation.

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Similarly, we all know that we shouldn’t use use PowerPoint, or if we do use PowerPoint we shouldn’t stuff them full of text and bullet points but instead use illustrative pictures.

We all know we should bike to work, but sometimes the weather is bad, or we are late, or just feeling lazy, and so we take the car.