750 slide Powerpoint - WTF?

[Plotloss]

Now you can see why I don't use powerpoint...

[Arese]

Plotloss said:

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.

She also said "I think it might be miles, but not laps, because laps would be a measure of distance."

[rhinochopig]

As long as the text swoops in from the sides with that typewriter noise and / or applause it'll be a winner.

[Plotloss]

Arese said:

Plotloss said:

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.

She also said "I think it might be miles, but not laps, because laps would be a measure of distance."

STill would've though.

[TonyHetherington]

rhinochopig said:

As long as the text swoops in from the sides with that typewriter noise and / or applause it'll be a winner.

You also have to make sure that you completely finish your point, and any further clarification, before the animations have had a chance to finish so you stand there like a bellend waiting for them

[rhinochopig]

TonyHetherington said:

rhinochopig said:

As long as the text swoops in from the sides with that typewriter noise and / or applause it'll be a winner.

You also have to make sure that you completely finish your point, and any further clarification, before the animations have had a chance to finish so you stand there like a bellend waiting for them

Could never happen, as the expert powepointer reads every word on the slide to ensure that the point is hammered home and that nothing is missed.

[Arese]

Plotloss said:

Arese said:

Plotloss said:

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.

She also said "I think it might be miles, but not laps, because laps would be a measure of distance."

STill would've though.

Yes. I'd tap it like Michael J Fox's office floor.

[DrTre]

rhinochopig said:

TonyHetherington said:

rhinochopig said:

As long as the text swoops in from the sides with that typewriter noise and / or applause it'll be a winner.

You also have to make sure that you completely finish your point, and any further clarification, before the animations have had a chance to finish so you stand there like a bellend waiting for them

Could never happen, as the expert powepointer reads every word on the slide to ensure that the point is hammered home and that nothing is missed.

I think we've been here before recently but it's imperative that Comic Sans is le font du jour, in fact it should be le font du every jour.

[TonyHetherington]

Comic Sans

Random slide wipes too; they're important.

[anonymous-user]

I always worked on one slide for every 2-3 mins of talking at a minimum.

That means 37.5 hours already!!!!!! MENTAL, TOTALLY MENTAL!!!!

[Mojooo]

are you sure a lot of them dont just quickly slip past with just 1 item or picture on them?

[off_again]

Sorry, I have worked for some seriously obsessive companies who use PowerPoint heavily. The worst I ever saw was around 80 slides and even that was far too much. I think the largest presentation that I have used was around 50 slides and that was for a day long training course with a lot of graphical content to explain how stuff works.

But 750 slides? Who on earth thinks that this is a suitable use of time, effort and computer resources? Madness. A committee in government by any chance? A bit of 'blue sky thinking' and other such madness.

Come on, spill the beans on who or I will call bullt

[zac510]

Mojooo said:

are you sure a lot of them dont just quickly slip past with just 1 item or picture on them?

What's the point of it being there if you just slip past it quickly? There should be relevant slides only!

[ArtVandelay]

Mojooo said:

are you sure a lot of them dont just quickly slip past with just 1 item or picture on them?

He could have even done a slide show like that, 11 pages just on typing his name at the start.


I've seen it done before but it was in school.

[Mojooo]

zac510 said:

Mojooo said:

are you sure a lot of them dont just quickly slip past with just 1 item or picture on them?

What's the point of it being there if you just slip past it quickly? There should be relevant slides only!

quite often just to show something - picture paints a thousand words etc.

sometimes just a funny picture - could end up being the funniest slideshow ever

[Mojooo]

ArtVandelay said:

Mojooo said:

are you sure a lot of them dont just quickly slip past with just 1 item or picture on them?

He could have even done a slide show like that, 11 pages just on typing his name at the start.


I've seen it done before but it was in school.

genius

i am now dying to do a presentation so i can try it out

[Original Poster]

I cannot think of anything worse then sitting through that... Truly awful.

[rhinochopig]

Original Poster said:

I cannot think of anything worse then sitting through that... Truly awful.

love the name change.

[Dick Sternum]

I'm teaching a 5 day SharePoint class next week and have fewer than 350 slides for the whole thing.

I'll probably use about 3 of them.

[tr7v8]

TonyHetherington said:

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.

That is great but doesn't work with Live meeting, slides don't animate properly so we always tell presenters to build slides by using consecutive builds.