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The making of a PowerPoint slide

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Vanessa: Thank you for attending the call today. This is the first meeting of the Project X sub-group, and I’d like to start by reminding everyone of what our brief is. As part of the refresh of our core values, we have been asked to create a one-slide representation of what the company stands for.

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