I get this suggestion a lot from clients who are concerned with the amount of slides in their decks. I usually push back, collapsing two messages into one (more busy) slide does not shorten the presentation.
When writing (without tinkering font size or margins): time = page count, when presenting: time = story.
When writing (without tinkering font size or margins): time = page count, when presenting: time = story.
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