Lesson 5.3 — What a bad slide looks like, and what to do

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Every deck you generate needs one pass from you before it leaves your laptop, and this is the thing to look for. Slide seven. The title says Key Financial Challenges. There is not a single number on it. It wanted the chart, could not get the chart, and filled the hole with a photograph lifted from the report cover. If you send this, that is the slide somebody asks about. Three ways out. Fastest, screenshot the chart straight out of the P D F and drop it onto the slide yourself, ten seconds. Better, go back to the chat and ask it to put those numbers on the slide as text instead of looking for a picture, because it has the numbers, it just reached for an image. Or delete the slide. Twelve slides that all say something beat thirteen where one is decoration.…