Powerpoint not dependable -- far too many problems: very disappointed. Know something better?

From: Anna (bastaconlospam_at_libero.it)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:47:06 GMT

Hi,

I have been using PP (2000 and then XP) for four-five years now as a
professional tool -- I teach sociology and I need someplace where to
collect my presentations for the classroom+my notes+links to resources
(images, movie files, and so on).

In time PP became my personal knowledgebase: after a couple of years
my file was 6MB, contained 300 slides with notes Now 7MB, 500 slides.

One and a half years ago, problems began: first my file got somehow
corrupted: couldnt be opened. I took me several hours of work to get
it somehow repaired, and something got lost anyhow.

Then one day my notes were lost. I know there was a note bug in PP97,
but this happended on PPXP, I swear. Luckily, I had a back up file,
but it took me another day of work to get me back where I was.

In the meantime I decided to save the embedded images as external
files, and to link to the files from within the slide: this way, I
thought, the file would be smaller and more handy -- less likely to
get corrupted again.

Last, a couple of days ago I find out all my link to external images
dont work anymore (what used to be /dir/image.jpg has been
misteriously transformed in .../.../dir/image.jpg): more days of work
lost.

At this point (a bit too late, you may say) I feel PP is not reliable
at all. Not a professional piece of software. I open my file, and am
afraid what is coming next.
Also, and most important, I have no sense I can check everything I
wrote or created is still there: what if I lost one or two notes
attached to my slides? it may take months before I come to know it.
And what if I keep on using it: in another couple of years' time I
would come up with 800 slides, with much more at risk.

Now, if you have any suggestion, that would be highly appreciated.
In particular:
- any hint on the link problem?
- any suggestion in general on another software that could do me good?

- I know many will say: break your file into smaller presentations;
well that would make the whole process I need to develop almost
impossbile: I need ONE single place from where to organize my work, my
notes, my files, my images, ecc,...

I tried OpenOffice, when I was in serach for somthing better, but it
ran too slow, and didnt cut a very good figure to me, all in all.

Please give me a hand, any help/suggestion/discussion will earn my
gratefulness.

Best,
Anna

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