Feature change from 97/2000 to XP/2003 Why ???

[Guest]

Does anyone have an explanation for this change in
PowerPoint XP/2003 from PowerPoint 97/2000?
I teach PowerPoint and this was discussed in class
recently.

In PowerPoint 97/2000, when you were in Slide Sorter View,
you had a separate icon for transition and animation if
they were applied to a particular slide. This made it very
easy to tell what the transition/animation was for an
individual slide.
In PowerPoint XP/2003, now you get the same icon when you
are in the Slide Sorter View if a particular slide has
transition and/or animation. There no longer are two,
separate icons.
This makes it much harder for the students to tell what
the formatting is for each slide.
Here is my question: Why would Microsoft make such a
change? From a learner's perspective, it makes learning
the newer versions more difficult. Doesn't make any sense
to me.

Anyone have a reason why Microsoft would make such a
change? Would like to be able to share this with future
classes.

Thanks!
Jugglertwo

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Not being employed by Microsoft, it is hard to know why they chose to do
anything. But, if I were to venture a guess, it would be because of the
improved animation abilities. In PPT 97/2000 there was one animation
sequence that ran beginning to end. In PowerPoint 2002/2003 animations can
be much, much more complicated.

I don't know if this was part of what influenced them to disable the slide
sorter custom animation display for 2002/2003. But it would seem
reasonable.

If this is something that you would like them to re-activate, or feel they
could do better, drop them a line at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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Bill Dilworth
Microsoft PPT MVP Team
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