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Top Ten Missing PowerPoint Features

While I love PowerPoint and can make it do almost anything I want it to, there are 10 features I need that never seem to make it into new releases. Read my Top Ten and then....

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Like many of you, my relationship with PowerPoint is a love/hate one. While I use the tool constantly and with great success for myself and others, I often find my presentations roadblocked by missing features. I find that there are features that I just cannot understand why Microsoft has never added.

So, with apologies to David Letterman, I here in present my version of "Top Ten Missing PowerPoint Features". (By the way, read clear to the end. This article announces the first PowerPointAnswers contest!)

10. Multiple animations of separate objects at the same time

9. Easy import of Word files with graphics to make presentations

8. Larger slide sizes

7. Notes pages that automatically update when the master is and that can be printed nicely

6. Multi-path slide navigation for quizzes, tests, and classroom discussions

5. Create your own slide layouts, with the option for more than two text placeholders

4. Repeatable, consistent sound and narration coordination to slides

3. True transparency for graphics

2. A dissolve that works

1. A working, current viewer