The words crossed my mind...

[alexpgp]

Augean. Stables.

I've successfully dealt with almost 2,000 words that my TM program found in the Big PPT file. (By which I mean to say the program ignored the text in the embedded objects I posted about earlier.)

The found words were enough to take care of 11 of 62 slides. (Riddle me this: Who in his or her right cotton-pickin' mind would sit through a 62-slide presentation?)

At any rate, the remaining 51 slides all contain embedded objects, and while some of them are lightweight, in terms of text, there are others that strive mightily to be prolix, and generally succeed.

However, it's been a 7,500 word day, and my eyes are starting to cross, which may interfere with my watching this week's Castle, so I probably ought to knock off and give the peepers a break.

Cheers...

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[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

No. That's 2000 words just in the 11 slides my TM program could grok. There are still 51 slides left pretty much untouched (the titles were grokked by the TM).

I estimate there are around 4,000-5,000 words scattered among those slides, and getting to them (aside from simply reading them on my screen) is going to be a noticeable effort.

Cheers...

[platofish.livejournal.com]

~200 words per slide..... thats ugly!

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

It's certainly not how I was taught to use PowerPoint, but then again, I've seen this kind of approach all too often, particularly in engineering.

It's almost as if the presenters are making the most of an opportunity to make sure a captive audience runs its collective eyeball over all that hard work (or that at least management sees all that hard work), even if the presentation hasn't a prayer in Hades of actually get down into the details.

Cheers...