Todays sucky software is PowerPoint, in oh so many ways. I feel a Jesse moment coming on - "Today I am mostly complaining about PowerPoint":
- Why can't I have two presentations open on different screens? I can open two presentations, and they show as separate windows, but move one to my second screen and they both move. I have a presentation with a whole bunch of art in it, and I use that in other presentations, but having to alt-tab is such a pain.
- Why, when I cut and paste within the same text area, does the pasted text get a different font to the source text? In presentations showing code I use a code font (such as Lucida), and I copy a word, paste it elsewhere and suddenly it's now Arial. What gives? Yes I know I can paste special and use unformatted text, but that's extra steps.
- Why can't I split the presentation, in a similar way to Word where you can split the document and scroll the portions independenly. I tend to write presentations and then do the agenda and summary; I'd like to have the agenda in one area (and not scroll), while I scroll around the rest of the document.
I didn't sign up for the next Office beta because I knew I wouldn't have time to use it properly, but I hope they've sorted some of these.
[Listening to: Everything's the Same - Anika Moa - Thinking Room]