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It’s all done with macros and templates. Not sure why OP thinks it’s problematic. I think it’s easier and more flexible than PPTs embedded tools.
Noted. I (mis)read more into your question than you actually said.
For everyone else - We don’t literally build them line-by-line and box-by-box like OP suggests. We have an add-in where you select the rows / columns and adjust a few options for styling. You then have to play around with sizing / spacing a bit, but tbh it’s way easier to use than the tables and looks much cleaner
when you quit mck you have to build from scratch
by far the worst thing about quitting
Didn’t know you guys had to build anything.... thought you sketched it on bar napkins and sent it away to be built out
Guys stop pretending ... vg not what it used to be
80 hour weeks at McK, 40 of which are spent aligning shapes and text boxes
Despite being able to ship our slides to India overnight to do the tedious alignment and cleaning up this still feels so true
Yes if I don’t want my slides to look like ass
So that’s why McK is so expensive.
For real. I actually have no idea why we do this
Does for excel add-one, McKinsey use Thinkcell, McK customized Thinkcell, or is it a proprietary McKinsey thing?
To all my McK “why do we do this” folks above - when people leave the one thing they ask for more than anything else is our custom ppt bar.
D6 - It is “beneath them” and would be a bit like rocket science for those that arrange boxes, worry excessively about fonts and diction.
We have plenty of templates to almost never build something from scratch
my McK friends tell me marvin table does this right? and also something about compatibility or porting to different styles or something? correct me if i’m wrong
Microsoft office tables are so ugly and inflexible to use....a little more effort the way we do it but it’s way more flexible/nice looking
This is a joke, right? I can’t tell if this is serious
Nah it’s srs
Yep
when the client is paying $100k/slide you can afford to spend the time to polish it to a fine shine. hats off to all the slide jockeys here.
https://youtu.be/KWHeWEapFlw
Can someone send a screenshot? How much better does this look?
Is this literally an add-in that enables things like object alignment, expansion, compression, etc.? All firms don’t have this?
It sounds like McK folks just never learn to use PPT. And if you’re clicking on the ribbon, you’ve already made it clear you don’t know how to use Office efficiently. This sounds like an expensive band aid to cover up a self inflicted injury.
Bring your A-nalyst game...
For small tables that need to look like a dashboard with indicators and objects I do so that I can group them. But this is rare.
Deloitte uses MS Office tables. My guess is that most of your firm does too. You might be stuck with an old school project manager. School him 🤓
Text boxes should be shapes too right
Generally no. There better be a good reason if we are
Yes, when it improves format. Actually, I also use shapes to build some charts when the one produced by thinkcell (or similar) is not easy to read