death by PowerPoint
The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.
Near-synonym: PowerPointlessness
name
A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.
Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.
Can I be candid? I think I am on this group because none of you can do PowerPoint. I am literally going to draw some rectangle shapes for the pillars. We won’t be having feathers or whatever. And there’s a limit to how many pillars will fit on a single slide.
noun
An electronic slide presentation created using the program Microsoft PowerPoint.
PowerPoint presentation
Sitting through his PowerPoints is a dull, but necessary, requisite for the job.
Any electronic slide presentation.
She's asked James to prepare a PowerPoint for tomorrow's lesson.
verb
To communicate using electronic slides.
A recent editorial and tips in this journal have extolled the virtues of making clear presentations using computer presentation software, in particular the commercial software PowerPoint (Microsoft, Redmond, WA). AJR readers may be interested to know that free software packages are available that can create professional presentations without furthering our national dependence on a software monopoly.
Levi seems to be able to do all the slide shows and videos and PowerPointing his teachers ask of him -- as long as he's patient with its slow pace
To present (a topic) by means of electronic slides.
Do they tell a person (as happens in one corporation) that they won't look at any report unless it is “PowerPointed”?
In one poignant moment, Hanks is sitting in on an executive meeting at a major toy company, and one vice president is PowerPointing his way through a presentation about a new toy
To communicate to (an audience) by electronic slides.
She says the audience has had a long day and has been "PowerPointed out" with one presentation after another from other Oracle executives
Now it is time to take your tired-as-hell, PowerPointed-to-death brain and shake things up so that you have the ideas, energy,