Challenge 1: Splitting a 9-Bullet, 3-Topic Slide — Solution Walkthrough

Restructuring:

Split the single 9-bullet slide into three separate slides, one per
topic:
  - Slide A: "Background" — the bullets covering context/history,
    trimmed toward the 6x6 guideline (short phrases, not full
    sentences).
  - Slide B: "Current Results" — the bullets covering what's actually
    happened so far.
  - Slide C: "Next Steps" — the bullets covering what's planned going
    forward.

Each slide now has one clear title matching its one clear idea,
likely landing at 3 bullets each instead of 9 crammed onto one — well
within the 6x6 guideline on every individual slide.

Why splitting costs nothing structurally:

Chapter 1 established that a PowerPoint slide is a discrete,
independent unit in a fixed sequence — inserting two additional
slides simply adds two more independent units to that sequence, with
zero effect on how any other slide looks or is arranged. This is
fundamentally different from Word's flowing-document model (also
Chapter 1), where adding new content shifts everything after it
around within one continuous stream. In PowerPoint, going from one
slide to three doesn't reflow or disturb anything about the slides
that come before or after — each one stays exactly as independent
and self-contained as it always was.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This is a direct, concrete application of this chapter's "one idea
per slide" principle: the 9 bullets already naturally group into
three distinct ideas (background, results, next steps), and Chapter
1's own distinction between Word's flowing content and PowerPoint's
discrete slides explains exactly why splitting is the structurally
"free" fix here, unlike a comparable restructuring inside a flowing
Word document.