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Subject: Addition of PowerPoint to Meeting Presentation

Mandy,

Whoa! Hold your horses! While I appreciate your zeal, we simply don't have time to create a PowerPoint presentation or run through one during the sales meeting this Friday.

As we discussed yesterday, management has given us fifteen minutes to present both our current sales numbers and next quarter's projections. Your two charts clearly and effectively highlight the portion of those reports that we will discuss at the meeting. Plus, I$\text{'}$d be stressed out if the slide show didn't work properly $($like what happened to Bill last week$$ugh$!)$ :-) Instead of wasting time on the PowerPoint, I think its best right now if you focus your remaining time and abundant energy on relevant tasks, and creating a PowerPoint presentation would only detract from those more important things.

Thank you for understanding my position on this. If you still feel compelled to discuss the slides, please feel free to stop by my office tomorrow after lunch. I look forward to reviewing your recent progress.

Regards,

Akira

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I appreciate your input.

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but we need to focus it on existing tasks for the meeting this Friday.

Wow, I love your enthusiasm for this project.

I appreciate your enthusiasm on this project and your wish to make our presentation this Friday clear and audience$-$oriented.