Am I living in a completely mad world?

[Kitten]

Originally Posted by BBx

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I hate the fact that none of the Office products are compatible... I copy some text from Word into Powerpoint and it can't keep the formatting.. WTF?!

This annoys me, but so does when I want to copy EXACTLY the same text box in Powerpoint onto another slide... nope can't do that either.

****ing useless program.

BB x

Can't you import it instead... I thought it kept the formatting if you imported it, but then I can't recall if that's old/new office...

Edit: Like this.. http://www.addictivetips.com/microso...werpoint-2010/ << then you can edit it if you need to?


or here: http://www.powerpointninja.com/power...t-first-sight/ <- this is a great blog for tips & tricks!

And with the copying...do you mean it doesn't keep the formatting or you can't copy it at all? Can't say I've ever had the problem, but it might be to do with the source formatting as above?

I used to teach office to various level students from beginner to expert and I usually found that rather than the application not being able to do something, users didn't know how to do it and either went all around the houses to do something simple, or just assumed it wasn't capable. Not always, but often the case. I found that 2010 had more features and I found them a lot more accessible, compatible and useful once I got used to the new layout

[Garp]

Originally Posted by BBx

I hate the fact that none of the Office products are compatible... I copy some text from Word into Powerpoint and it can't keep the formatting.. WTF?!

This is a long, long held pet peeve of mine, and many IT staff I know. Office isn't a suite at all, it's a series of individual programs loosely bundled together.
If they were a suite it would, amongst other things:

• Use a unified page / text rendering tool so that the suite uses less resources and you can copy paste between the two
• Would use the same approach for menus on each application (to whit, the difference between Excel and Word for getting to the main Options dialogue)

There is a principle in the programming world, D.R.Y. "Don't Repeat Yourself". If you find yourself coding the same process a second time, take a good look at it. If you find yourself doing it a third time, it's time you shifted that off into a library and made it just a single re-usable function rather than wasting time re-writing it and maybe doing it slightly (or significantly) differently the next time you do so. It's a waste of time and makes fixing bugs a pain. The number of different ways common features are handled in each program just indicates utter stupidity and a resistance to drawing a line in the sand and starting out afresh.

[Pheebs]

I had to google search how to change the formatting for a load of pasted items from some of my old website pages.

GOOGLE SEARCH!

Damn new word documents!!

[BBx]

can someone translate Jarp's post from ubergeek to English please?



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BB x

[Kitten]

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