using Animation or creating multiple slides?

Question

So I made this presentation that explain an Order flow between several systems (Ecommerce / CRM / Provisioning /...)

I had 2 options:

1. Create 3 slides where the order journey shows a nice animation of all events across all systems ( I have around 100 animations and I don't use any of the fancy animation, all events just appear, disappear, appear, disappear, etc.)
2. create around 65 slides where each slide illustrates the progress of all events (some animations can be skipped).

Options 2 is what most of my colleagues do, rather by lack of knowledge of the transition and animation features.

the main (and really significant) issue is that if you found a error, typo or need to change some content, you have to change up to 65 slides.

With Option 1, using transitions, I'm able to work on 3 slides and I found it extremely time-effective to update/fix the content.

I was asked to share the presentation with 3rd parties. Corporate policy has a strict rule to share our internal documents in a PDF format with security options.

but my 3 slides are totally unreadable once "printed", they're only useful in a slideshow.

I tried to find a way to export the presentation in a way that Powerpoint 2016 would denormalise the transitions into single pages, effectively creating 65 slides

at the end I had to recreate my presentation with 65 slides. 

But I would to share this and if anyone has a trick or maybe give Microsoft a hint for a potential improvement

Eagerly awaiting some suggestions :-)

Cheers,

Largo

Note: I think this question was partly asked in this thread but it is somehow old. Just hoping that Powerpoint 2016 could help.

Answer 1

I'd give Massimo Rimondini's add-in a try first off:

You can find Massimo Rimondini's add-in here

Answer 2

I'm afraid not, but I don't think I need to, it's a simple one, create one page, put 20 pictures and add the following animations:

Pic 1: Entrance: Start on click

Pic 1: Exit: Start on click

Pic 2: Entrance: Start with Previous

Pic 2: Exit: Start on click

Pic 3: Entrance: Start with Previous

Pic 3: Exit: Start on click

etc.

so that's 20 pictures on 1 slide. most of them overlap on each other.

once "printed" I want 20 slides showing 1 pic per slide.

Answer 3

Hi Steve,

Maissimo's PPspliT is an awesome tool, I got a warning about PPT version during install but it worked!

I reviewed almost each slide in detail and the results are absolutely perfect.

This is exactly the kind of tool that should be standard in Powerpoint!

Answer 4

Printing animations is a fundamental issue MS has not bothered to address.

Here are a couple of links with solutions for older versions. I have no idea how well they work with 2016

This links has a few possible answers (that I have not tried myself):

http://superuser.com/questions/602209/create-a-pdf-from-powerpoint-with-animations

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25368346/animated-slides-conversion-to-static-pdf

(google is your friend)

Answer 5

Can you share a sample presentation with dummy text to see how you set up the presentation?