To big presentation?

[Julien]

I have (tried to) make a presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
with over 2000 slides (almost everyone with 1-3 jpg-pictures). When I add the
last 500 slides, I get a red X all over the 1-200 last slides.

Is there a limit for a PPT presentation?

 

[Austin Myers]

2000 slides??? Umm, who is going to set through a presentation that is 2000
slides in length? (At 10 seconds a slide that is five and a half hours of
non-stop viewing. WHEW!!!)

There is no real limit to how many slides you can have but even the most
powerful PC made would have problems with this. Have you tried compressing
the images in PowerPoint? If not that is where I would start.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Julien,

I'd try and break this down into smaller chunks - then link it all together
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm


I'd also optimize the JPGs to a lower resolution (think less mega pixels)
htp://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm



Cheers
TAJ Simmons

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more...

 

[Julien]

Thank You for Your advices. I can understand Your ???? about 2000 slides, but
I have found PowerPoint very useful when I want to make a presentation of -
in this case - an old art museum/art society.

You can show paintings, photos, presscuttings, publications,
movie-illustrations and listen to sountracks from speeches. And all the
slides/parts are linked in a way that makes it easy to take You from one
picture/part to another.

Which means: You can buy this PPT/DVD and look at it in Your own computer.
You don´t look att the 2000 slides from 1-2000. You look at the parts that
You are interested in for the moment.

I think PowerPoint is very useful because
1. You can make the ppt-show start automatically in the viewers computer.
2. The viewer can look at it even if he/she doesn´t have PowerPoint insalled
in the computer.

But I´m no expert - maybe there is a smarter way to do this?


"Austin Myers" skrev:

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

If this is what you are doing, I would recommend that you split the single
presentation into a number of sub-presentations and create a menu
presentation to lead people to the specific information they need. In
addition to limiting the problems you are having now, it will eliminate a
problem you don't know you have yet: With all the slides in one file, you
are going to have major problems with your hyperlinks. Check out this PPT
FAQ entry for more information on the links problem you don't know you
have...
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00668.htm

If you need help setting up the menuing system, post back.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Julien]

Thank You! I need help setting up the menuing system. Are the menu
presentation and the sub-presentations different ppt-files? And in that case
- how do I link them?

"Kathy Jacobs" skrev:

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Check out this entry from TAJ's site. It should get you started. Then post
back with your questions as more arise.
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointmenu.htm

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived