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[fj]

They always tell you to put minimal text on presentation slides, especially for points that you will present as well verbally. Certainly do not make your PowerPoint a written copy of what you want to say. But that never addresses that the last 7 'presentations' I made got presented maybe only once, if ever, but were mostly passed around as a sort of e-mail brochure to read alone from a screen. It's kinda hard to make a presentation that works as both a presentation and a hand-out.

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[raimondas.livejournal.com]

+1 on this. And the suggestions above of either putting the "handout text" in notes or putting just URLs on slides would just decimate your slide-reading audience, since half of them will not bother to look at notes/URLs.

Unfortunately the only clean way to do it is to have two versions of the slides: talk and handout. And even then readers would complain that they are not getting the same thing that they saw during the talk...