INTRODUCTION Since 2001, harsh criticism of PowerPoint’s presentation slide structure has surfaced in several popular publications: “Absolute PowerPoint,” The New Yorker (Parker 2001); “PowerPoint Is Evil,” Wired (Tufte 2003b); “Is PowerPoint the Devil,” The Chicago Tribune (Keller 2003); and “Research Points the Finger at PowerPoint,” The Sydney Morning Herald (Patty 2007). Because Microsoft P...