Has anyone used PowerPoint to set up Due Diligence reporting?

[Debbie]

Has anyone used PowerPoint to set up Due Diligence reporting?

 

[Austin Myers]

I wouldn't choose PowerPoint for this unless it was to give a broad over
view of the data. DDR usually requires a good deal of data to be presented,
often in very fine detail. Trying to do that will create a very large
presentation that would be laborious to both give and to sit through.

Again, if you want to give large brush stokes to show conclusions, perhaps a
limited number of charts, etc. PowerPoint will do very nicely.

 

[Debbie]

Thanks for your response. This is a concern we had as well. We were told to
use Frontpage or Sharepoint, but since Frontpage is being discontinued and
Sharepoint won't be released for a few months this won't work for us. Also,
we were concerned about the same thing that you just stated. Too much info
to access. Do you have any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

 

[Austin Myers]

Describe what you are reporting on, who the audiance is, and the level of
detail needed.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Debbie,
I have used PPT and Word to programmatically create very complex
reports from databases. The key decision between me choosing PPT or
Word is primarily whether there is a need for "page flow continuity"
because you might have more data that will fit on a page, then I use
Word. If page flow can be confined to a single page, then PPT is
clearly an option.

If you'd like to talk more about this, you can drop me an email by
taking the "not" out of my email address. It also helps to put
PowerPoint in the Subject so I don't include you with the rest of the
spam I still get.

Brian Reilly, MVP