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Hi M tools!

First time poster.

I have a question on how to set external standards for an ambiguous process.

Part of my job involves having my directs "body-shop" powerpoint charts - i.e. organizing things on the page, making tables look nice, filling in / fleshing out commentary, etc.

Often times I find myself re-working what they put together to get the formatting looking good. I'd like to give them feedback but I'm having a lot of trouble defining an external, quantifiable standard that I'd like to hold them to. Too often I can only say "make this look better", or spend 15 minutes going over the slide with a red pen and detailing exactly what I'd like done.

Any thoughts on best practices for excel formatting standards?

Kevin1's picture

When you make a change to something they have done, try making a note of what you are changing and why.  Collecting these notes together should be a good starting point to building a list of formatting guidelines that you can use to set expectations up front.  Then you can give feedback to them when they miss against the expected standards.

Hope that helps.

Kev