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    What our readers think PowerPoint is missing!

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    Here are the things our visitors feel are missing from PowerPoint!

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    Submitted by Celeste Orrantia

    Celeste would like to see a plug-in or add-in that is similar to, but better than, the old "Publish to ASF" plug-in. this plug-in let you take your PowerPoint presentation with all the transitions, automations, audio, and video and output it to a video compatible format. The only solution she has found to complete this functionality is to use a screen capture application or save the slides as JPEGs. Neither of these options work well when importing a presentation to video editing software.

    Submitted by Elizabeth Crooks

    1. Multiple masters

    1. The ability to add more text placeholders in masters

    1. The ability to edit ALL page formats (so two-column text doesn't reduce point size!)

    1. Styles similar to Quark

    1. Get rid of those cheesy templates, they just promote REALLY bad design!

    1. Password protection

    1. Lose the clipart, it's gross, and again promotion of bad design

    1. The ability to import EPS images that look good

    1. Real transitions

    1. Throw out the charting functions and start over--I could write ten more top tens on just charting improvements!

    Submitted by Philip Bergman

    1. A keyboard shortcut for 'group / ungroup'. This is such a frequently used use function, it needs one.

    1. Make 'constrain proportions' the default when scaling objects (let shift+ scale be unconstrained) Novice users aren't aware of the shift key and make a mess of scaling pictures).

    1. Make the default transition for an object 'appear'. That way we won't have to suffer through interminable presentations where all the text flies in!

    Submitted by Dave Thompson of Belleview, Florida

    1. Automatic multimedia driver updates.

    1. Built-in common photographic filters.

    1. More accurate transition timing.

    1. Same time multiple animation capability.

    1. Real screening or transparacy control capability.

    1. Better (higher) pps compression ability.

    1. Music beds or stock music library.

    1. A REAL dissolve transition.

    1. Built-in autorun capability.

    1. mp3 and/or .wma sound reading capability.

    Submitted by Oscar E. Desmonteix, of MacroVoice Networks

    1. Protection: Who told Microsoft that the data in PowerPoint is less important than in Word or Excel? It takes seconds for anyone to destroy what took us weeks to get somehow right! Moreover, they can use our work in their presentations.

    2. Better alignment for bullets: They keep jumping when the text box is moved up or down, and can never be put on the same column once moved.

    3. No changing hyperlinks. After editing and saving a presentation, usually there will be quite a few hyperlinks pointing to other presentations that will be affected, even though they were not edited in the last edit session.

    Submitted by Gary Paul Lewis, of PowerPoint Art and PowerPoint Photos

    1. A pixel/inch measurement for screen sizes rather than just inches only; many experienced graphics users are always figuring the math from pixels to inches!

    1. Graphics-driver style support for mulitple movement at one time; i.e., headline and body text moving at once, or bullets and clip art coming in at the same time from opposite sides.

    1. TRUE anti-aliased text as attempted by after-market software such as TVL! NO JAGGIES!

    1. A more real-world selection of backgrounds. Everyone has 9,000 gig drives with a new laptop these days... Can we bury the light to dark blue gradient ramp?

    1. Lose the tri-screen format which appeared in 2,000. If we need to see the slide, the notes, and the outline all at the same time, we shouldn't be in control!

    1. Center the bullets. Is it just me, or do 100% circle or square bullets out of Zingbats or Dingbats seem to DWARF the chosen font? I go 70% but they align at the bottom which looks just as stupid!

    1. Cleaner PNG or other 'alpha channel' imports out of show mode. I always freak out when building a show on my mac, hoping all the jagged edges and stray non-alpha material will truly disappear during a show. It usually does ;)

    1. Execute the Paper Clip and Dancing Computer. I understand they're both on Death Row... But boy, did that take a long time!

    1. Design a printer interface which makes SENSE! Does grayscale mean no outlined objects... or is that Pure Black & White or just Black & White... I never remember...

    1. A TRUE DISSOLVE! No checkers, no random horizontal blinds... A REAL DISSOLVE!

    Ok... Who's next?

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