Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
I've been adding to an old PowerPoint show that I will present in two sessions. It has become very large, and I have more to add.
How do you divide it into two separate shows?
Make two copies of the original; name them, say, xxx_Part1.ppt and xxx_Part2.ppt
Open Part1, delete the second half of the slides.
Open Part2, delete the first half of the slides.
Now, what I'd do next is create a new presentation based on the same master. Let's call it Menu.ppt
On Menu.ppt, create a few buttons or whatever and to them, add hyperlinks to Part1 and Part2.
On the last page of Part1 and Part2, add End Show hyperlinks.
To deliver the show, open Menu and click the link to Part1.
When you get to the end of Part1, click the End Show link, which'll close Part1 and return you to Menu.
Click the link to Part2 and ... you get the idea.
You can use the menu slide as a kind of outline so your audience can see the major points you're going to
cover. Returning to the menu between sections gives them a quick "refresher/orientation" to remind them
where they are in the show. That said, you might prefer to break the original into more than just two
parts; bust it up by major sections instead, for example.
Is there a maximum size I should leave in any one show?
That depends on the hardware you're playing back on and the content of the show. Simple text slides?
5000 slides in a single show wouldn't be totally outrageous (so say nothing of the fact that if it
crashed at the halfway mark, your audience would be gone, asleep or dead anyhow, so nobody'd notice <g>)
