Microsoft Office 2007 can go fuck itself. I am thisclose to throwing a computer out a window. "Intuitive" my arse. I hated it in beta stage, and now that Papa Smurf is using it, I hate it even more (as does Papa Smurf).
Font sizes. Dad uses Powerpoint for services and when he imports slides from his old Powerpoint 2003 files -- he reuses slides all the time, song slides, basic outlines of the service -- the formatting is, basically, stuffed. We have tried everything. And yes, that includes the keeping formatting button. I've done everything (including setting up new themes), and the local computer tech (a close family friend) who runs the systems for all the local schools and so has some experience with the program just came around earlier and he's never seen anything like it. Depending on how I am tomorrow afternoon I may post screen shots. If my father hasn't taken a cricket bat to the computer by then!
Have you guys ever tried out http://openoffice.org? I use it, and while it takes a bit to get used to, you'll find that it has much more features that are actually useful *gasp* than Microsoft. (I've already used the convert to PDF function a few times, very handy.) Plus, you know, free and all.
I was just coming in here to recommend OpenOffice. I switched last year as a "last resort" when my MS Office disk was too scratched to load after a computer crash. Now I would never go back to MS Office.
I, personally, love it, but the parents refuse to use it. This may have changed their mind... I'll have to bring it up again! The problem is then installing it on the church's laptop, but if we can get the initial slides formatted correctly, we can hope that the crossover (on a computer that is still using 2003) would work.
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