is there a slide limit for powerpoint presentations

[MLeslie]

I need to know if PowerPoint slide presentations have a slide limit.

 

[Michael Koerner]

PowerPoint doesn't, but your audience might

 

[BoniM]

The length of a presentation is limited most by your system resources (or
your audiences patience). When either starts complaining, you have too many
slides!

 

[Bill Dilworth]

There is also the issue of file size vs. likelihood of corruption. If the
entire companies slides are kept in a single 50 GB file, you better have a
lot of back-ups. Larger files are more likely to become corrupted, so
several smaller ones may be a better option than a single large one.

Why do you ask?


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[MLeslie]

Thank you for your repsponse. The reason I am asking is that one of our
departments wants to use a different presentation package. A couple of years
ago they attempted to create a PowerPoint for a banquet - where the photos
would simply scroll. They could not get the presentation to work with 200
photos. I am trying to eliminate the need to support additional 3rd party
packages that are really not needed.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

200 pictures/slides is no problem for almost all current machines. However,
if each pictures is kept at full resolution (5 MB or so) that makes for a
very large presentation. I would suggest that the images be optimized after
being inserted. The optimization removes the un-show-able details from the
images and keeps the size of the presentation reasonable.

Just as an example. A decent digital camera will capture an image at 3000
pixels by 2000 pixels or better. However, most projectors can only display
at 1024 by 768. Therefore only about 15% of the pixels are actually useful
to the presentation projection. Optimization removes the excess detail and
keeps the presentation size manageable.


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
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