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analog31 on Sept 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died

I think it's as simple as, if you put it in a PPT, you can rest assured that it will be readable and usable by the recipient, which includes passing them along to other people, presenting it, using the slides in other presentations, and so forth. If you choose some "weird" format, then the burden is on you when someone can't use it for some reason.

SoftTalker on Sept 10, 2023 [–]

PPT is the least likely format I’d be able to read. I’d open it in LibreOffice but its handling of PPT is quite poor.

PDF is what I see used when the sender is aware that not all the recipients are using Windows

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