750 slide Powerpoint - WTF?

[Zelda Pinwheel]

Who, in their right minds, thinks that 750 pages (and growing) is an appropriate number of slides for an internal review? Seriously?

This frigging thing is 550Mb already and is only going to get larger. If they think I'm going to hang around till 4am tomorrow to finish it off, they've got another think coming.

I just thank f*ck that I'm not going to have to sit in this godforsaken meeting tomorrow and listen to them all reading the slides verbatim, not making any decisions, holding any discussions or generally getting anything achieved, other than a peculiar sense of self-satisfaction on having survived the PPT deck from HELL.

[hyperblue]

750 slides? Hope they've got comfy seats and lots of coffee! Most presentations with more than 20 slides are too long.

Edited by hyperblue on Wednesday 19th May 13:40

[touching cloth]

[DrTre]

That's about a 40-50 hour presentation?!

[tomash]

Aah Powerpoint, an application for people who have no power so there is no point!

[zac510]

That's ridiculous!

I bet it's full of management BS-speak too.

[TonyHetherington]

That would take a week to go through! You sure there's not a lot (a LOT) of hidden slides that are there for reference?

Oh, and NXPowerLite; it reduces the size of PPTs dramatically, and is brilliant.

[Zelda Pinwheel]

TonyHetherington said:

Oh, and NXPowerLite; it reduces the size of PPTs dramatically, and is brilliant.

thanks, will check that out

[Zelda Pinwheel]

DrTre said:

That's about a 40-50 hour presentation?!

yup. and they have all of 6hrs to get through it. There is a bit of "hidden backup" but this scares me, it really does. Mind you, i have seen worse. last year some team put together a 2000 slide deck.

[bonsai]

Public Sector?

[ArtVandelay]

I've made longer! I used to make little stick animations when I was younger with it, just copy and paste previous slide and then hold spacebar down when viewing. Instantly st animation

[TonyHetherington]

6 hours

No sane person could ever do that. Surely they must have made builds on one slide but incorrectly made it by creating a new slide and adding the next bit, or something equally as silly like that?

Otherwise, 750 / (6x60) = 2 slides per minute!

[Plotloss]

In powerpoint you have a slide per animation dont you?

So a slide with 5 bullet points would be 6 slides?

So its either very long or very busy. Either way, fail.

Mind you, on who wants to be a millionaire last night there was an oxford grad who couldnt decide if 500 in Indy 500 related to miles or hours. Yes love, car races often go on for three weeks straight.

[Cotty]

I hate powerpoint presentations, most of them are a waste of time and they send me to sleep

[ArtVandelay]

Plotloss said:

In powerpoint you have a slide per animation dont you?

So a slide with 5 bullet points would be 6 slides?

So its either very long or very busy. Either way, fail.

Mind you, on who wants to be a millionaire last night there was an oxford grad who couldnt decide if 500 in Indy 500 related to miles or hours. Yes love, car races often go on for three weeks straight.

You can have them times to appear on one slide, with such poor animations as the "swing in" although it's far easier to do it the way you've said.

[5potTurbo]

hyperblue said:

750 slides? Hope they've got comfy seats and lots of coffee! Most presentations with more than 20 slides are too long.

...is also my opinion. Some people I'm working with at the moment insist on at least 30 for a 2 hour meeting, then add another 10-15 as "Annex". Muppets.
20+ is fine, if no-one else is meant to talk, but that's not the purpose of the meetings. Just to ps off my oppos, I've now stopped making slides for the meetings!

To the OP: good luck with 750. No-one will read them all - unless they regularly read Tolkein!

[Neil H]

That's insane, and should be made illegal really. Having to sit through that would be a form of torture.


This was in the news recently, made me laugh how completely pointless pictures like this are:


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghan...

[Zelda Pinwheel]

ArtVandelay said:

Plotloss said:

In powerpoint you have a slide per animation dont you?

So a slide with 5 bullet points would be 6 slides?

So its either very long or very busy. Either way, fail.

Mind you, on who wants to be a millionaire last night there was an oxford grad who couldnt decide if 500 in Indy 500 related to miles or hours. Yes love, car races often go on for three weeks straight.

You can have them times to appear on one slide, with such poor animations as the "swing in" although it's far easier to do it the way you've said.

I only wish they'd built the transitions like that, 6 slides for 5 bullet points. But NO. We have 750 pages of massively busy information.

[Zelda Pinwheel]

Neil H said:

That's insane, and should be made illegal really. Having to sit through that would be a form of torture.


This was in the news recently, made me laugh how completely pointless pictures like this are:


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghan...

THAT is fking brilliant!

[TonyHetherington]

Plotloss said:

In powerpoint you have a slide per animation dont you?

So a slide with 5 bullet points would be 6 slides?

Though you can do it like that, it's not the easiest, cleanest, or smallest way. You can "build" one slide and add different elements to it - that either come in on mouse clicks or timed. So you could, in reality, have an entire presentation on one slide that simply adds bits and takes bits away from one single slide, rather than advancing.

But, I can imagine this 750 slide guy did like you first said - 5 bullets, 6 slides.