Re: Normal View should have slide option
- From: Jim Gordon MVP <goldkey74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:18:12 -0500
Hi Drew,
When Office 2004 was under construction the tab with the thumbnails was
brand new. Sometimes Microsoft lets new features mellow a bit on one
platform before bringing them to the other side. Some new features have
turned out to be unpopular and better off not being included.
Back in 2003 the thumbnails tab seemed like overkill. You can slide the
scroll bar, see the outline, and switch to slide sorter view to see other
slides. Given a choice would you give up the ultra powerful Presenter View
(that's still not on Windows PowerPoint) for yet another way to see your
slides while putting the presentation together?
Fast forward 4 years to 2007. Tens of thousands of people like yourself are
switching from PCs to Macs and are familiar with the interface and features
you've been using all along. Now lots of people want the thumbnail tab
because they're used to it and liked it and have said so in feedback and
newsgroup postings.
My experience has been that Microsoft's Mac Business Unit pays close
attention to customer requests and feedback. They also have quite a bit of
flexibility as to how they build their product. They might copy the
thumbnail tab since it is obviously a highly requested feature, but it
wouldn't surprise me if they come up with an even better idea than the
thumbnail tab.
So far Microsoft has been mum about most things for Office 2008, so all we
can do right now is make a little noise and have some optimism that our
pleas will be acted upon. You can be sure that whatever the Windows team
does that the Mac side will do their darndest to outdo them.
-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
Quoting from "drew halevy" <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, in article
C1E801E8.B02%drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, on [DATE:
A new poster, and I don't mean to be disagreeable, but I think it is more
than that, and the thumbnails are an important element, at least if Office
2003, from which I am migrating from. I just bought my I-Mac last week, and
have been getting acquainted with Office 2004 for Mac. I use 2003 at work,
and having the thumbnails on the left hand side while I edit the slide can
be very useful.
Switching between regular view and slide sorter is not the same thing. I
teach high school, and I use this "regular view" to have a strip of the
slides that around the one I am working on.
If I have to go to slide sorter, then double click to edit, then switch back
to slider sorter, go the next slide, then do it all over again, it really
breaks the flow of work. Some of my slide shows have 80 slides, and going
back and forth 80 times is not fun. If I have the thumbnail on the left hand
side, it is much for useful.
Everyone telling me how Office 2004 is just like 2003 was one of the big
selling points in buying this computer and Office 2004.
I am very disappointed in the lack of the feature, which, to me at least, is
sort of fundamental to the look and layout of PowerPoint.
-Drew
On 1/21/07 7:18 AM, in article
but the fact is that the thumbnail pane technically slows performance
because of graphic redraw. I consider that to be wasteful - especially since
the thumbnails don't allow *any* editing of the slide whatsoever, whereas
the outline not only permits editing the text content of the slide but also
any formatting normally done on the slide, itself... and a simple click at
the bottom of the pane takes me to Slide Sorter View which is far more
effectively designed for its purposes than the Slides Pane.
As the classic axiom declares, "To each his own!" :)
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
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