The other day, I got a PowerPoint file, that I was tasked to “clean up.” Since I’m one of the few people left on the planet apparently, who knows how to correctly use PowerPoint, and its archaic method of style sheets and templates, I get this kind of request a lot.
Apparently, whomever had worked on this PowerPoint before it was turned over to me, also had no idea what they were doing. Margins completely inconsistent and text boxes and objects shifting all over the place upon scrolling though the slides. Colors, ever so slightly shifting between slides. And most blatantly, the fact that slides that were title slides in between categories had all their titles written in Lucida Calligraphy.
My boss stated “I don’t know what kind of person did this, but it needs to be fixed.”
I had to hold my tongue at the answer that immediately popped into my head.