My company used to be a scrappy San Francisco tech startup but we were acquired by a large corporation so we had to switch from being Google people to Microsoft people and I'm in the process of creating a training deck in PowerPoint and I am seriously losing my mind with how Microsoft keeps messing up my formatting and how every little thing seems to take 5–10 times as many steps.
For example, I'll try to figure out how to do something that would have taken one click in Google slides and I'll figure it out, but it's like a seventeen step process in PowerPoint, so, when I’m done, I'll ask my husband who has been tortured by Microsoft for much longer if there's an easier way to do that thing and he'll inevitably be like "the way you did it IS the easy way to do it in PowerPoint/Word/whatever."
It's seriously like they clunked together some code and were like "well, it's at least kind of sort of better than a word processor?" and never bothered to improve anything.
@Alice Oh the hours I’ve wasted in PowerPoint trying to make something look good.
A couple tips:
When you want to make a slide similar to an existing, dupe it, then make changes. It’s almost impossible otherwise.
When replacing an element that you want to be the same dimensions, keep the old element, paste the new, make same size as old (it will snap when you get close), then send to back, and delete the old element.