[jaxtellerSoA]

Fantastic post! But can we please, please stop calling power point presentations "decks".

[linkingday]

Sure, but we can't call them PowerPoint presentations either.

[asdff]

How about "Presentation?"

[SkyMarshal]

Honest question, what’s the difference?

[icelancer]

He is just grumpy and doesn't like the term, for whatever reason.

[prewett]

I've always disliked it because a "deck" is stack of small, flat things, canonically, playing cards. A set of PowerPoint slides is not small (they are usually wall sized) and they are not an actual thing I can carry around. I think of a set of PowerPoint slides as a “PowerPoint presentation” or “PowerPoint file”. I guess I could let “slide deck” slide, because a stack of slides would be “deck”-sized, and I assume that sales presentations back in The Day actually were slides of some sort.

To me, a "sales deck" (current title is "The greatest sales deck I've ever seen") implies a stack of playing-card sized marketing material, or a joking reference to your stack of business cards.