MS Power Point - DIE

[Wayne C.]

If Power Point is killing you why not try Windows Movie Maker?

I use ppt to make easily laid out stickers for our robot because I can print the screen and play with the word art and such

But Movie Maker is much easier to work with because you set up an archive of art and pix you want and just drag and drop them into a timeline. You can also easily add a soundtrack and all kinds of transitions and special effects. It is far less wieldy than ppt.

If you have windows xp and office 2000 you no doubt have it in your program list (check accessories). To a guy who remembers the discovery of color television and the microwave oven this program is pretty impressive.

Of course if microsoft products are not good enough for you, you won't listen anyway.... ; )


WC

[Rickertsen2]

Imho PPT has gotten to the point of being tacky and cliche. The transition effects, clipart, wordart, and sounds especially are plain TACKY! I feel most powerpoint presentations are rather distasteful. Microsoft needs to do some SERIOUS overhauling of the entire MS Office suite of products. They just havn't kept up with the times and arn't very flexible.

My main gripes:
Code bloated and ssslloowww... buggy (esp excel)
Interface bloated. Too many useless features cluttering things up.
Equation editor sucks
Thinks its smarter than i am and tries to do too much for me. Confuses itself real easily. If i want to make a list i will make a list. I don't care when it thinks i should make a list!!!!!! AI is not a good idea for a word processor!!!
No concept of alpha blending, anti aliasing, shadows etc.
The price is utterly ridiculous.
Graph and chart capabilities are PATHETIC

[dubious elise]

i ususally get off pretty easy by making autosave store my files frequently on v.X of PP (i have OSX on my eMac). i'm starting to use keynote more and more just because i get free updates on it ...and it's mac friendly

[Pierson]

<Random Aside>

It is interesting to see how far this thread has swayed from the original couple of posts...

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