saskabush said:
thanks Steve for the reply, what I was expecting to hear.
"sort of like magic, only better" Harry Potter should work for microsoft!
any major improvements for a ppt technician, as opposed to a ppt
presenter/poser?
I am concerned with migrating '03 ppts to newest version, so am looking
for down to earth imporvements, not glitz and glitter!
There's a ton of great new stuff in 2010 that helps me as a technician.
I love the "whiskers" that show up when I'm moving things around on my
slides. They work like in Flash and help me align things without having to
drag out the actual aligning tools.
LOVE that I can customize the Ribbon. LOVE LOVE LOVE that.
Migrating charts from 2003 to 2007 or 2010 sucks. There's no getting around
that, really. :-(
Video tools are incredible. Video can be embedded, you can do in-place
trimming and things like that.
There are new artistic filter effects for pictures and a picture background
dropout tool that will come in handy.
Sections will help me organize files for others to work on.
Insert Screenshot is another handy quicky-tool.
There are some new SmartArt diagrams.
There are new transitions. And some of the existing ones have been updated
and are much nicer than before.
There's an Animation Painter tool!
There are new Review tools.
Size and Position are on the right-click Format Shape dialog now along with
everything else (where they should have been in 2007 also, but weren't).
We can save presentations as video now. Finally.
Print Preview is dynamic and much better (but the print dialog itself sucks
bad).
There's a "broadcast slide show" option that lets you share your files
pretty much on the fly. Like for a quick meeting or something. Really handy
for that.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I know there's lots more.
Did I say that I love that I can customize the Ribbon? <g>
I also agree with Steve. 2010 is very stable, but I wouldn't install it on a
production machine. I have 2007 on one system here and 2010 and 2003 on
another. I'm not having any issues that I notice with 2003 and 2010
together. I just can't double-click or right-click a file and have it open
with PPT 2003. I must open 2003 and navigate to the file.
But I have heard there can be issues with 2007 and 2010 side-by-side on the
same system. Of course, I can't remember what they are! I think charting was
one, though -- and I'm too paranoid about charting to chance that. Seems
there was somehting about the macro recorder, too, but that might have been
Excel. I've also heard that there may only be minimal issues, so it's not
that big a deal.
Still, I'd go for the virtual machine option instead of putting it side by
side with 2007 and chancing a blowup.
