What are your slide deck pet peeves?

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Mine - inconsistent and small font sizes throughout deck

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Data tables. Sometimes yes it's necessary, but page after page of data tables kills me. Impossible to digest that much mundane information.

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People who use full on sentences and even paragraphs with bullet lists.

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And I also had a client demand everything be in B&W. Took us a month to get him to accept greyscale.

Each time we met with this client’s boss and execs, we took the hit as they demanded why we never ever used colour. FML.

Animations.

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Even starwipe?

Biy enough Star Wipe transitions

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Too much information on a slide. I have a BD department that uses PP like a Word Doc and throws everything on a slide.

Text walls

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