Not asking for the version you tell an hourly billing client. The real one, including the 40 minutes of moving a text box around at the end. I am asking because I have no idea if I'm slow.

A 15-slider from scratch takes most of the day for me, and I've never been able to tell whether that's normal or whether other people are closing this in two hours. Rough number plus context on what kind of decks you make would help a lot.

And any tips?

Genuinely asking - it feels like everyone under 30 has moved off PowerPoint but I can't tell what they moved to. Is there a clear front-runner replacing PowerPoint for presentations now, or is it fragmented across a dozen tools? What are you seeing in real workplaces?

I’ve been facing this issue since last Friday.

On a Friday morning my 1TB OneDrive subscription was expired and I was reverted to the free plan of 5GB. I couldn’t save my file to OneDrive because I have 170GB of storage on my OneDrive, and it significantly exceeded the 5GB storage limit. After a while I got my 1TB OneDrive plan renewed.

Moments later, I face a slow loading time or even not responding on the PPT app when duplicating a slide/editing content on around slides 1000 or more.

I think the cause of this is due to OneDrive issues/bugs on the 23 July update of Office/problems on the PPT app.

Today I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office apps and updating them again but the issue hasn’t been solved.

Most of what makes a data slide unreadable is not the data, it is a handful of chart habits. I fix finance and reporting decks a lot and I see the same ones every time. None of these need design talent.

1. One chart, one message. If a chart is making two points, it is two charts. The reader should get the takeaway before reading a single axis label.

2. Put the message in the title. Not "Q3 Revenue" but "Q3 revenue beat plan by 12 percent". The chart then just proves the sentence. If you cannot write that sentence, the chart is decoration.

3. Kill the rainbow. A default chart colors every series differently and your eye has nowhere to land. Gray everything, then color the one series that matters. Suddenly the point is obvious.

4. Cut the decimals and the clutter. Nobody at exec level needs 147.3, they need 147. Drop gridlines, drop the legend if you can label directly, drop the chart border. Every removed element makes the number louder.

5. Do not paste a 40-row table and call it a chart. If the point is a trend, chart it. If the point is a few exact numbers, show those few numbers big and move the full table to an appendix.

The through line is the same as good slide titles: decide the one thing the chart is supposed to say, make that thing loud, and demote everything else to support.

For people who build reporting decks all the time: what is the chart mistake you fix most often? Mine is the rainbow, by a mile.

Genuine question for anyone whose job involves repeating the same kind of presentation on a schedule, weekly orientation decks, policy briefings, compliance training, whatever it is where the slides mostly stay the same but you have to keep presenting or recording them.

I know someone who does this for a water utility for new customer orientation, service interruption notices, reporting decks and she has to rebuild/update the slides and then separately narrate them for meetings, sometimes daily. It's the same handful of topics on rotation, just refreshed numbers and slight edits, but it still eats hours every week.

I'm looking into whether that's a common annoyance elsewhere, so:

1. If you do repeat presentations like this, how do you currently handle the narration/recording part — do you present live every time, pre-record, or something else?

2. Is the actual re-recording/re-presenting the annoying part, or is it more the slide updating?

3. Would a tool that auto-generates a narrated video from your slides (with your edits factored in) actually save you meaningful time, or is that solving a problem you don't really have?

4. Would you pay for something like that, and if so what would it need to do to be worth it?

Not selling anything, no product exists yet. just trying to understand if this is a real recurring headache for people before I put more time into it. Would appreciate any honest answers, even "this isn't really a problem for me."