looking for PPT annoyances

[Echo S]

My number one!

I should be able to disable any and ALL macro warnings on MY machine.

Yeah, I feel that way m'self!

Echo

 

[Echo S]

I especially like that last one, Steve. It throws me every time! (But don't
you mean when you use File/New as opposed to Insert/New Slide?)

Echo

 

[Shyam Pillai]

2) No keyboard shortcut for starting the show on the current slide

(like F5).

Shift+F5 in PPT 2003

3) No intuitive method to access the full-screen outline view. It's no
longer in the menu or view icons (unless you know the shift+ctrl+sorter
trick).

You can add the outline view to the menu
1. Tools | Customize...
2. Activate the 'Commands' tab.
3. Select 'View' under categories.
4. Dray 'Outline' to the menu bar.
5. Click on Close.

Check out the commands in the customize dialog, lot of hidden gems in there.

6) You can't send to Word as PowerPoint greyscale/bw.

It's not annoyance. It's a crime. It's broken many existing apps.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I especially like that last one, Steve. It throws me every time! (But don't
you mean when you use File/New as opposed to Insert/New Slide?)

All of the above, actually. In PPT2k and previous, you could use Tools,
Options, View and have it give you a new slide dialog that let you choose the
autolayout you wanted. No longer there. You get what it gives you. Don't
like it? Heh: choose Format, Slide Layout and ... nothing. Another one!

And Format, Slide Design, while we're at it.

Yeah the Tsk Pane changes if it's set some other way, but if it's already where
it wants to be, then you choose something from a menu and nothing happens.

How do you spell "Flies in the face of everything MS has been teaching users to

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Hi Echo,

From a user's perspective:
1. PPT2002/2003: Task pane - A good feature in PPT 2002/2003 but lacks
keyboard support. Try changing the layout, design, color scheme etc using
the keyboard.
2. PPT2002/2003: File | New... does not apart from bringing up the Task pane
for New Presentation while the short-cut (Ctrl + N) opens a new
presentation.
3. PPT2002/2003: Cannot view all comments in PPT 2002/2003 each needs to be
clicked on to display it or use of buttons on the 'Reviewing' toolbar.
4. PPT2002/2003: Lack of keyboard support to switch between comments.
5. PPT2002/2003: Cannot set the default to 'Copy with source formatting'
while copying slides.

Will post more when I run into them.

 

[Gregg]

Shift+F5 in PPT 2003

Sweet! I was not aware they added that to 2003. That's great, and
thanks for pointing that out because I'm about to move to 2003 next
week. I look forward to enjoying having that command.

You can add the outline view to the menu
1. Tools | Customize...
2. Activate the 'Commands' tab.
3. Select 'View' under categories.
4. Dray 'Outline' to the menu bar.
5. Click on Close.

Right. It didn't take me long to hunt that down and put it on my
toolbar when I first moved to 2002. I've just seen others struggle with
it.

Thanks for the info, Shyam.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

5. PPT2002/2003: Cannot set the default to 'Copy with source formatting'

while copying slides.

Yeah Baby.... that's a big one.... across ALL office software

TAJ

 

[Echo S]

Thanks, Shyam. Some good ones in there...

Echo

Hi Echo,

From a user's perspective:
1. PPT2002/2003: Task pane - A good feature in PPT 2002/2003 but lacks
keyboard support. Try changing the layout, design, color scheme etc using
the keyboard.
2. PPT2002/2003: File | New... does not apart from bringing up the Task pane
for New Presentation while the short-cut (Ctrl + N) opens a new
presentation.
3. PPT2002/2003: Cannot view all comments in PPT 2002/2003 each needs to be
clicked on to display it or use of buttons on the 'Reviewing' toolbar.
4. PPT2002/2003: Lack of keyboard support to switch between comments.
5. PPT2002/2003: Cannot set the default to 'Copy with source formatting'
while copying slides.

Will post more when I run into them.

--
Regards,
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox: http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox

 

[Gregg]

You know how PPT wants to snap an object to the edges of the slide?
That's always been an annoyance to me. The snap commands don't control
that action and I've found no way to defeat it, except to zoom in when
working that close to the edge. The CTRL+wheel works well for that.

-Gregg

 

[Echo S]

Thanks, Gregg. That's a good one.

(Try the ALT button to override it.)

 

[Gregg]

(Try the ALT button to override it.)

Thanks. I tried that and it seems to resort to snap to grid, which gets
me closer to the edge, but still not free positioning. Zooming in
appears to be the best solution for that detailed work.

Problem with zooming in is that it doesn't always zoom in on the area I
need to see. I overcome that by quickly placing a box where I want to
zoom and then use the CTRL+wheel, which then zooms to that spot, and
then delete the box.