The importance of slides

Every now and then, a colleague may ask you if you can import some slides into a Prezi canvas for them. It may be because they have a very important sales pitch to a big client, they're presenting to the board, they want to impress others with the new technology, or they just want to look good when presenting this quarter's figures to their team. However, they may not know how to use Prezi themselves.

If they have the slides already in PowerPoint or Keynote, then why oh why don't they just use those? Do they really think that importing slides into Prezi is somehow going to magically make their presentation better than it was without any extra time or effort?

If anyone ever asks you to do this, just smile and politely tell them you'll help, but then add the words "bear in mind that slides are still slides in any medium". When they then ask what you mean, you'll be glad you read this chapter.

Before we look at how to deal with this...