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Reason #874 Micro$oft Sucks Ass [Feb. 20th, 2007|09:44 pm]
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[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

So... I'm doing a presentation for the Special Libraries Association tomorrow morning. It's a distance ed/WebEx type thing. I did the first part a few weeks ago and the last part is tomorrow.

The slides for the presentation were made in Keynote, on my Mac. The woman at SLA needs a PowerPoint file that she can upload to WebEx for the session. My presentation looks and functions beautifully on PowerPoint for the Mac. But when I send it to SLA she can't open it. When I open it on our office PC (in the PowerPoint Viewer I downloaded this morning since that machine doesn't have PowerPoint WTF???) it looks like total and complete ASS. The fonts are fucked up, images are missing, and the transistions are screwy.

Yes, this is my fault for not having finished this sooner instead of waiting until the last hour. But come on! It worked 2 weeks ago! I don't understand. *sigh*

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[User Picture]From: [info]acpo
2007-02-21 07:46 am (UTC)

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I completely understand what this looks like. I once watched a job candidate open her (written on a French language Mac) Powerpoint presentation and just stare in disbelief at the disaster before her eyes.
The font problems I can understand but I'll never understand the errors with transitions, etc. It's the same Microsoft, right?!???

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