{"id":473,"date":"2014-04-23T19:44:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/?p=473"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:45:04","slug":"counting-beans-or-words-in-powerpoint-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/2014\/04\/23\/counting-beans-or-words-in-powerpoint-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Beans (or words) in PowerPoint Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>-Maria Helena Brenner Kelly (PLD member) \u2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In some lines of work, people count beans. Luckily, we get to count words.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then we receive translation projects involving PowerPoint presentations, with the client requesting slide translation only. They figure the presenter will \u201cget by\u201d with the speaker notes in English and, of course, the cost of translation is minimized.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the client knows how many words the presentation has, since PowerPoint gives that information. He or she usually has no idea how many words there are considering the slides only, though. And it is up to us to figure that out.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, I found this method. I am sure there are others out there. This one is pretty straightforward, but if you have a better one, please tell the world.<span id=\"more-866\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>First, check how many words the presentation has in total:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-868\" src=\"https:\/\/pldata.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MH_pic1.jpg\" alt=\"MH_pic1\" width=\"961\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<strong>Click Save &amp; Send and select Create Handouts and choose Notes next to slides<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-871\" src=\"https:\/\/pldata.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MH_pic2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pldata.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MH_pic2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pldata.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MH_pic2.jpg 707w\" alt=\"MH_pic2\" width=\"707\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This action creates an MS Word table with three columns: page #, slide image, and speaker notes. You should delete the first column, which contains the page #, as you don\u2019t want it to impact your count. Check the number of words in the Word document. This is the number of words in the speaker notes.<\/p>\n<p>Subtract this number from the number you got in item 1 above and there you have it: the slide word count, excluding the speaker notes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Maria Helena<\/strong>\u00a0was born and raised in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. She holds a bachelor\u2019s\u00a0degree in statistics from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, a graduate degree in business\u00a0administration from Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Get\u00falio Vargas, and a certificate in translation from New\u00a0York University. Her work involved both the areas of finance and IT for 25 years, ten of\u00a0which at IBM in the US. She is a freelance translator and lives in the state of Bahia, in\u00a0Brazil<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Maria Helena Brenner Kelly (PLD member) \u2013 In some lines of work, people count beans. Luckily, we get to count words. Every now and then we receive translation projects involving PowerPoint presentations, with the client requesting slide translation only. They figure the presenter will \u201cget by\u201d with the speaker notes in English and, of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tech-corner","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}