750 slide Powerpoint - WTF?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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!
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...
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...
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.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.
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!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...
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.So a slide with 5 bullet points would be 6 slides?
But, I can imagine this 750 slide guy did like you first said - 5 bullets, 6 slides.
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