Daily Archives: May 26, 2005

Do you want to know, in a nutshell, the latest thing that bothers me about PowerPoint? I hate how they define the layout of your master slides. Sure you can modify title and text slides, but if you want to change the default layout of graphic slides, you just can’t do it. I spent far too much time yesterday and this morning trying to convince PowerPoint that what I really wanted was a layout with a title at the top of the slide with a picture centered below it and a caption at the bottom. That was fairly easy. If you then hit the ‘layout’ button for ‘picture with title and text’ it shuffles things around so that you’ve got a two column layout with the caption as a bulleted list next to the photo. This is wrong.
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