Max. number of slides or size recommended?

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ReplyFri 3 Jul 2009, 15:09Delegate Oky said...

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Max. number of slides or size recommended?

It was good to know that you can add different people's PP presentation as ONE with different formatting of the master slide.

This maybe a silly question but I would like to know if there is any maximum number of slides or size of the file that is recommended to avoid any problems with attaching few sets of slides as ONE?

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ReplyTue 7 Jul 2009, 16:11Trainer Anthony said...

RE: Max. number of slides or size recommended?

Hi Oky. Thanks for your query. The only limit on the number of slides you can have in one presentation is the technical capabilities of your machine. You can put any number of slides with full scale video files and animation if you have enough RAM to cope with it, but you will still - sooner or later - encounter system problems as the computer struggles to cope with the material. You could have thousands of powerpoint slides with just bullet points on each slide, but while Powerpoint itself will allow you keep adding slides, the filesize will still keep growing until your system capabilities are exceeded.

Hope this helps!

Anthony

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ReplyWed 8 Jul 2009, 16:47Delegate Oky said...

RE: Max. number of slides or size recommended?

Thanks for the reply!

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