Please change program to enable moving backgrounds!!

[Projection junkie]

We have been using powerpoint for years for weekly productions involving
songs with graphic backgrounds. However, we recently discovered a less
compatible program that allowed moving backgrounds. My team has loves the
user friendly format of Powerpoint, but we must have the option of including
motion (video clip) backgrounds.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hey PJ,

Yes, I've seen that software too. It would be a nice feature, but telling
us here won't help that much. A couple of MS employees will poke their
heads in from time to time, but mostly it's just us users. Please tell the
folks that work for MS using the feedback site or (since you are using the
news reader) make a new suggestion for MS directly.

The important part is not what you would like to see PowerPoint include, but
why you feel this is important to the product. Like with any business, MS
must prioritize the money and time they can spend developing and improving
their product, so your explanation will help them to understand where your
idea should be ranked.


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[Tushar Mehta]

This is a peer-to-peer forum that MS employees may -- but do not
necessarily -- monitor. You should check out the mswish webpage at
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp?SD=gn&LN=en-
us&gssnb=1 -- not that it guarantees that MS will do anything about
your request.

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Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

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[Sonia]

Bill, Echo helped me with this one because, like you, I only access the
newsgroup via the NNTP server. However, on the web interface
(http://tinyurl.com/4gs82) there is an option to enter a post as a "suggestion",
as PJ did. That allows other people to vote for it. It's an alternative to the
wishlist. Unfortunately we are blind to it here, so anything that looks like a
suggestion, probably was posted via the CDO interface and is a suggestion.

 

[Echo S]

Actually, Projection Junkie did the right thing.

Posters using the web-based interface to the newsgroup can post suggestions
for MS. We using NNTP won't usually realize that the posts are flagged as
suggestions, but people accessing via the web can see that they are.

John Langhans includes posting via the web interfaces suggestions as one of
his preferred methods for sending suggestions to MS.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.pu
blic.powerpoint Elsewhere in this thread Sonia's given a tinyurl version of
this link so that it won't wrap/break.

I just wish that the suggestion post text would automatically place a line
at the bottom saying something like "This is a suggestion for MS posted via
the web interface."

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Thank you, Sonia. Didn't realize the NR added new suggestions to the NG as
regular posts. Must point out that this seems a little bazaar. MS does not
closely monitor content of the NG's, but does closely follows votes from the
NR on content. Perhaps more bucket thinking.

No prob. The goal was just to make sure the posters ideas get to the right
ears, and that is being done.

Bill D.

 

[Tushar Mehta]

I just wish that the suggestion post text would automatically place a line
at the bottom saying something like "This is a suggestion for MS posted via
the web interface."

Better yet, if MS intends using the web interface for more than NG
posts, maybe it should keep that stuff out of the NGs.

And while we are at it, maybe it should include some information about
how many suggestions are actually implemented.

--
Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

Actually, Projection Junkie did the right thing.

Posters using the web-based interface to the newsgroup can post suggestions
for MS. We using NNTP won't usually realize that the posts are flagged as
suggestions, but people accessing via the web can see that they are.

John Langhans includes posting via the web interfaces suggestions as one of
his preferred methods for sending suggestions to MS.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.pu
blic.powerpoint Elsewhere in this thread Sonia's given a tinyurl version of
this link so that it won't wrap/break.

I just wish that the suggestion post text would automatically place a line
at the bottom saying something like "This is a suggestion for MS posted via
the web interface."

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

This is a peer-to-peer forum that MS employees may -- but do not
necessarily -- monitor. You should check out the mswish webpage at
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp?SD=gn&LN=en-
us&gssnb=1 -- not that it guarantees that MS will do anything about
your request.

--
Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

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(e-mail address removed)> says...

 

[Echo S]

And while we are at it, maybe it should include some information about
how many suggestions are actually implemented.

I believe there has been a commitment from various programs/application
teams to do just that. It's not been implemented yet, though.

 

[Tushar Mehta]

I believe there has been a commitment from various programs/application
teams to do just that. It's not been implemented yet, though.

That would be nice!

Thanks for the follow up, Echo.

--
Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions