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1. Scroll buttons
I use Presenter's view all the time. In 2003, the scroll buttons were nice
and big so that I could easily scroll past slides and skip content in my
presentation. In PowerPoint 2007, these scroll buttons are now standard
Windows size (about 15 pixels) which is way to small to try to click during a
presentation. These buttons should be bigger.
2. Hidden slides
In PowerPoint 2003, it was often difficult to tell what slides were hidden
in a presentation during a show. The only indicator was that the slide number
was crossed out. In PPT 2007, the whole slide is now dimmed. Although this
makes it more obvious, I think that it's too obvious because that makes the
slide very hard to see. I've given many presentations where I needed to see
what was on the hidden slide. A better way to indicate hidden slides would be
a different border of some sort, not bleaching the slide.
3. Improve thumbnail performance.
I've found that most of the presentations I give through PPT 2007 don't
render the thumbnails beyond the currently displayed eight or so. PPT 2003
was really good at displaying the thumbnails, but 2007 is really slow at
this. Even within the program's Slide Sorter view. Where this gets really bad
is if I decide to skip ahead in my presentation, I click the scroll bar or
buttons a few times, and I have to wait several seconds for the thumbnails to
render before I can see what slide that I'm clicking.
4. Mirror the mouse cursor
PowerPoint 2004 on the Mac has a great feature that mirror where I'm
pointing my mouse cursor in Presenter's View to the running presentation on
the second screen. I'd like to see this ability as an option in PowerPoint
2007.
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I use Presenter's view all the time. In 2003, the scroll buttons were nice
and big so that I could easily scroll past slides and skip content in my
presentation. In PowerPoint 2007, these scroll buttons are now standard
Windows size (about 15 pixels) which is way to small to try to click during a
presentation. These buttons should be bigger.
2. Hidden slides
In PowerPoint 2003, it was often difficult to tell what slides were hidden
in a presentation during a show. The only indicator was that the slide number
was crossed out. In PPT 2007, the whole slide is now dimmed. Although this
makes it more obvious, I think that it's too obvious because that makes the
slide very hard to see. I've given many presentations where I needed to see
what was on the hidden slide. A better way to indicate hidden slides would be
a different border of some sort, not bleaching the slide.
3. Improve thumbnail performance.
I've found that most of the presentations I give through PPT 2007 don't
render the thumbnails beyond the currently displayed eight or so. PPT 2003
was really good at displaying the thumbnails, but 2007 is really slow at
this. Even within the program's Slide Sorter view. Where this gets really bad
is if I decide to skip ahead in my presentation, I click the scroll bar or
buttons a few times, and I have to wait several seconds for the thumbnails to
render before I can see what slide that I'm clicking.
4. Mirror the mouse cursor
PowerPoint 2004 on the Mac has a great feature that mirror where I'm
pointing my mouse cursor in Presenter's View to the running presentation on
the second screen. I'd like to see this ability as an option in PowerPoint
2007.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...5-42bdb7ad9c59&dg=microsoft.public.powerpoint