My PowerPoint contains a lot of images and music and was created to be a
"show" instead of a narrated slide clicker. I would like to make this
available to investors on our website. It is rather large. Is there a limit
to how large a PPT file should be to effectively be placed on a site?
Bear in mind that before your investors can see the show, two things need to
happen:
1) Their browser has to download the entire PPT file to a temp folder on their
hard drive, and
2) It has to fire up PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer to view the
presentation.
Looking at 1) first: how fast a connection are your investors likely to have
and how patient are they? How long will they wait for your presentation to
start?
And as for 2): Do they already have PowerPoint or a Viewer installed? If not,
they won't be able to view the presentation. Which version of PPT do you use,
and which version do they have; are you using features that may not be supported
by their version?
Sorry to answer your question with more questions, but you know your investors
and your presentation better than we do, and that's where the answer lies.
By the way, another approach would be to save your presentation as HTML and post
that on your site. That requires only a browser to view, or may (depending on
the complexity of the presentation) and the HTML version comes down the wire a
slide at a time; they don't need to gulp the whole presentation down before
beginning to view it.
