How many slides should you have in a PowerPoint presentation? Five? No, 10? No seven. That's not the issue. You're asking the wrong question about wanting a specific number.

The perfect number is the number of slides your audience remembers, after you've given a presentation. So if you're giving a PowerPoint presentation to 30 business prospects on Thursday, practice in front of a couple of colleagues Tuesday at lunch, any slide, they remember and they remember the message associated with it works, keep it even if it's 100. Any slide they don't remember, they don't remember the message associated if they didn't remember the slide, by definition doesn't work. If you had only two slides and they don't remember the messages, and they don't remember what was on it, then throw both of those slides in the trash can. You had two too many perfect number Number your audience remembers and understands