Comments on: PowerPoint 2008…back in the game?

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:01:44 +0000

I agree with Imagen, 2008 is absolutely awful. i work at home and do intensive PPT slideshows for financial companies. None of the features work properly. Now, i’ve read that Snow Leopard is the culprit, and maybe that is so, but i find myself, after working like this for 15 years, having to scour help discussion groups for the simplest remedies. OK, now i have to go back and see how I can get the “smart” guides to work. nothing smart about them.

By: ImagenThat

ImagenThat — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:38:39 +0000

Office 2008 has so many issues with compatibility! No matter how pretty and wonderful you paint it, Office 2008 is the worst version ever.

Just Google “Office 2008 problems” and you’ll come face to face with a long list of problems.

IT is installing the 2004 version back in all our computers in our company.

Useless programs. Please really check out the problems before spending your money on these.

By: LL Cool J

LL Cool J — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:30:45 +0000

Dude, why don’t you write a more exhaustive review of Office ’08? Your review left me wanting more. Also, thought you’d be interested to know that I just saw Karl Rove on Fox News with a Macbook Pro.

By: Mireille

Mireille — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:54:57 +0000

Thank you Brian, for opening my eyes and my mind about a microsoft app. I might even check it out, but at least like you I will stop making fun of it.
As always great job!

By: Almir Germano

Almir Germano — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:35:44 +0000

It is hard to admit… but, one can copy the text with perspective shadow and paste it directly into KN, the effect is there… if you copy the skewed image with the matching reflection, there it goes, transparent gradient and all… I dare to say: PP 2008 will be added to my presentation bag of tricks!

By: Ed Eubanks

Ed Eubanks — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:32:30 +0000

Nice review (no mini-review here, friend).

One upshot for Keynote users on those parts where PowerPoint “surpassed” Keynote: there will almost certainly be a new version of Keynote in the next 18 months, and probably 2 or 3 versions before the next update of PowerPoint– so there’s plenty of time to “catch up”.