Thank you Microsoft, but please fix the issues
From: Frank Jurden (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:35:26 -0700
i'd like to second the issues listed below. i just want to amplify a couple
things.
*screen redraws. my experience has also been totally unacceptable. i have
a 60 page slide show on a 1ghz pb with 1gb of memory and it takes
forvever to redaw. i also have an older hp laptop with windows xp home.
there's no comparison. same file performs radically differently on the mac
compared to the pc. please fix this.
*image handling. this is a HUGE problem for me because i work in
advertising and am constantly adding images to the presentations. i work
on mac os x with office 2004, and i interact with windows users with the
latest ms office suite. i can't share documents because all the images drop
out. the message is "quicktime and a TIFF decompressor are needed to see
this picture." PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM!!! Does anybody know of a
workaround (and please don't suggest save as movie because this doesn't
work for me).
*keyboard shortcuts. with the latest version of mac office, they changed the
keyboard shortcuts for jumping from word to word and to the end of a
sentence compared to earlier versions. its like changing the copy command
from command-c to command-x. might not seem like a big change since
the letterrs are next to eachother, but eveyrbody on the planet learned it the
other way. why in teh world would you mess with something so universal?
ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR FIXING THE IMAGE HANDLING WOULD BE
APPRECIATED.
>-----Original Message-----
>Just wanted to thank the Microsoft Mac BU for doing a great job
>overall of keeping the Mac up to date with a nice version of Office. I
>recently 'switched' to a Powerbook from Windows and have mostly been
>using the new Powerpoint release. Here are just a few key things that
>I WISH Microsoft would address, quickly.
>
>1. Screen redraws. Really slow when compared to PC version. The slide
>sorter view is almost un-usable. Please fix this. Also, when you use a
>MS mouse with scroll wheel, it is also un-usable as the slide redraws
>can't catch up. Why not cache this stuff when it hasn't changed? I'm
>running on a Dual G4 with 1 gig of RAM. My old Windows Dell laptop -
>1g P3 - redraws faster than the Mac in Powerpoint.
>
>2. Ruler problems. When turned on, the ruler makes all the graphic
>placements impossible. This is clearly a serious bug.
>
>3. No slide view in multipane mode. When editing slides in the
>multipane view, the outline on the left cannot be changed to a
>mini-slide view like on Windows (if it can, please tell me how). This
>means that you must use slide sorter to see smaller versions. Ouch.
>
>4. Quicktime/Media Handling. This has been written about elsewhere in
>this forums in detail, but MS, please fix these issues of performance.
>PP should be able to handle media on the Mac in any form and play it
>well. I also want movie controls with embedded movies. Also, please
>make suggestions to the user when he/she are creating cross platform
>presentations about the best way to embedd media. PP could ask me when
>I create a new presentation - 'will this need to play on Windows PP?'
>- at which point everything it does will make sure that cross-platform
>playback and file formats are handled.
>
>5. Expand file formats. I should be able to save a PP as a Flash file
>for example since this is built into Quicktime.
>
>There are many other issues which have been documented in this forums.
>I really hope MS is working hard on a SP or patch to address these
>issues SOON.
>
>-m
>.
>
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