Nothing that'd beat that, but discovering that my rechargeable presenter that worked fine for 15 practice runs had issues with the AV equipment and didn't get signals in to the machine during an actual talk.
Same talk, I also discovered the dangers of not clearing your recorded timings in PowerPoint from the prior practice run. The slides randomly double-advanced, spoiling punchlines and throwing off my confidence and timing until I figured out what was going on.
Nowhere near as bad, but still marred a chunk of my talk.
Hi, my name’s Aaron Powell and I’m a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. My area of specialty is front-end web dev and .NET (especially F#), but I enjoy doing silly things with technology.
Having narrations turned on for a deck catches me out all the time! I was reviewing someone else's deck recently that had it and I was confused as to why they had such specific timings for transitions until I realised! 🤣
See, I cleared the narrations, but kept the timings on just in case I needed to refer to them somehow in terms of a disaster recovery worst case scenario. Ironically this caused my issue because I forgot to double check to make sure the auto-advance checkbox wasn't checked.
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Nothing that'd beat that, but discovering that my rechargeable presenter that worked fine for 15 practice runs had issues with the AV equipment and didn't get signals in to the machine during an actual talk.
Same talk, I also discovered the dangers of not clearing your recorded timings in PowerPoint from the prior practice run. The slides randomly double-advanced, spoiling punchlines and throwing off my confidence and timing until I figured out what was going on.
Nowhere near as bad, but still marred a chunk of my talk.
Having narrations turned on for a deck catches me out all the time! I was reviewing someone else's deck recently that had it and I was confused as to why they had such specific timings for transitions until I realised! 🤣
See, I cleared the narrations, but kept the timings on just in case I needed to refer to them somehow in terms of a disaster recovery worst case scenario. Ironically this caused my issue because I forgot to double check to make sure the auto-advance checkbox wasn't checked.