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usernamenumberAfter 10+ years of development, you'd think that even for niche features a product wouldn't be missing obvious features.
Seriously, why would you design something with the ability to animate objects without the ability to step through the animation, making changes as you go? They give me a little interface* that shows me what happens at animation 1, 2, 3, etc, and even lets me play each animation, so why oh why can't I work with the slide as it would look at a given step? I can't be the first person to have an animation that involves lots of overlapping bits and pieces, which is a serious pain without that feature. Sadly, this applies to LibreOffice/OpenOffice too, as far as I can tell. At least LibreOffice highlights the corresponding object when I select an animation step, but it ate my slides when I tried to export back to PP. Bleh. Go Team Technology.
I'm posting partly just in case someone knows something I don't and partly just to rant. Haven't used Office in ages. Nice to know it's managed to retain that familiar "almost right, but..." feel after all that time. :\
Seriously, why would you design something with the ability to animate objects without the ability to step through the animation, making changes as you go? They give me a little interface* that shows me what happens at animation 1, 2, 3, etc, and even lets me play each animation, so why oh why can't I work with the slide as it would look at a given step? I can't be the first person to have an animation that involves lots of overlapping bits and pieces, which is a serious pain without that feature. Sadly, this applies to LibreOffice/OpenOffice too, as far as I can tell. At least LibreOffice highlights the corresponding object when I select an animation step, but it ate my slides when I tried to export back to PP. Bleh. Go Team Technology.
I'm posting partly just in case someone knows something I don't and partly just to rant. Haven't used Office in ages. Nice to know it's managed to retain that familiar "almost right, but..." feel after all that time. :\
* = and by little I mean very small... in a non-resizable window... with lots of relevant text information that invariably gets truncated... seriously kids, it's 2012 and there is no excuse for that. That's not just a missing feature, it's terrible design. :(
