Re: FN-FORUM: Powerpoint Standards

date posted 20th October 2006 16:16

Thanks everyone.

I'm coming to realise that they want the impossible. There are two
aspects to the job.

A: they want to outsource swanky presentations for big events. This
is the easy bit.

b: They want every other presentation to look consistently as cool as
possible. These presentations are produced by sales project managers.
Looking at what they have right now I'd say they are doing pretty
well. Any improvement would be best achieved through training rather
than software.

Thanks for every ones input.

Bob

On 18 Oct 2006 09:42:57 -0000, Dave Cross [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Quoting "Bob Gentle | northeastcreative.com" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been tasked to come up with a plan for a large marketing company
> > which produces a large volume of powerpoint documents.
> >
> > They are using templates and style sheets but they are looking for
> > ways to nail things down even tighter.
>
> Maybe you should just remind them of what Scott McNealy (president of
> Sun Microsystems) said about Powerpoint:
>
> We did a survey at Sun. We had 12.9 gigabytes of Powerpoint slides in
> storage on our disk drives. Ha ha ha. It freaks me out just to think
> about. Do you how many person centuries that is? Of clip-art
> manipulations? I banned Powerpoint from our company - I just edicted it.
> That's cool - I'm chairman, President, founder, you know, chief cook and
> bottle washer there and I just edicted it - I just said "out". I think we
> are going to have a pretty good quarter because of that.
>
> http://www.acs.org.au/president/1996/atm/npc/im961009.htm
>
> Dave...
> [who doesn't like Powerpoint much]
>
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