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8 PowerPoint Train Wrecks

In the "so bad it's good" category, we honor eight PowerPoint slides that will make you say, "Holy $#@%, What were they thinking?"

By Thomas Wailgum

We've all been there: Sitting through PowerPoint presentations (and the slides that support them) that are so densely packed with data, so unintelligible and so unintentionally funny, that it's impossible to fathom exactly what points the presenter was laboring to make. Bad PowerPoint-enabled presentations can make you want to cringe, scratch your head in confusion, or just use the time to take a nap (like this poor guy did).

In honor of PowerPoint's special brand of badness, we've dug up eight PPT slides that are legendary for their terribleness, and rated them on a five-point Snooze Scale (ZZZZZ) (one Z isn't so bad; five Zs is the absolute worst).

From the Department of Redundancy Department

One clever person imagined what Barack Obama's famous "Yes We Can" speech would have looked like had Obama relied on an 11-slide PPT presentation. Here's how that final slide would have "helped" Obama's presentation. Goes to show that sometimes less PowerPoint is definitely more.

Snooze Scale: ZZZ

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