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.

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TonyHetherington said:

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

thanks, will check that out

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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.

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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.

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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!

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off_again said:

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

Best not to name names, but it's not public sector or government, it's a blue-chip telecoms company.

I think they've whittled it down to "700ish" overnight, and many are in fact going to be hidden slides, but nonetheless i am still mighty bloody glad I haven't got to sit through it all today in an overcrowded room with the a/c on too hot.