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A Power-Point mystery

Here's one for Raymond Chen, since he likes to dig into these things.
Why the hell is the “continue from current slide” button in PowerPoint so darn small and unreachable?
Many a times have I seen the poor presenter struggling to put the cursor directly above the hellish icon to the lower left only to click a different icon by mistake, and repeatedly trying to use the darn laptop touchpad to navigate back to the icon. It looks bad, it feels bad. it is bad. Sure, it has a shortcut key (Shift+F5) but some people just rather use the mouse. Why make it so damn hard?
Published Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:58 PM by RoyOsherove
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Monday, February 23, 2004 7:01 AM by Mike A

# re: A Power-Point mystery

How about making an option in PowerPoint to switch off Windows Messenger while the slide show is in progress?

Nothing more embarassing than your partner popping up "Hi Sexy" or something right in the middle of a serious presentation :-)
Monday, February 23, 2004 11:58 PM by Mike W

# re: A Power-Point mystery

Regarding the continue current, yes absolutly.

And regarding the comment on Messenger? Messenger, the current one( 6.1.0207), has an option unter Tools /Options/ Personal to not have alerts occur when running presentations full screen. The same option will show you busy when doing the same. clever.

Mike
Saturday, April 24, 2004 3:56 AM by prem

# re: A Power-Point mystery

this is good