how many slides can ppt handle

[bac]

I have a student who is using ppt to animate a story. She has 2,000 slides
so far and ppt now crashes a lot. Is it ppt, possibly the computer (new core
duo with 4 gig of ram), or maybe some other issue? We use XP.

 

[PPTMagician]

It's probably running into resources issues.

A better solution for her is to break the presentations apart into linked
presentations.

See: http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

What Glenna said, and ...

PowerPoint doesn't have a specific limit on the number of slides, but the
larger the presentation gets, the more problems you are likely to run
into. By large, I am mostly referring to file size rather than number of
slides, so you might want to see if something can be done to reduce the
file size. Check out:

Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00062.htm

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[bac]

Thank you so much, Glenna. The link is just what we need.
bac