Re: Creating/Modifying Page layouts in 2004

Now *that* is a major leap. FL+Windows to PPT+Mac.




Actually for the most part the move to OS/X from Windows has been
remarkably easy - and immensely pleasurable. Actually having an OS that
lets me use the power of the hardware I purchased rather that eat it doing
goodness knows what the way Windows has done in recent years has been
wonderful.

But as you note PPT is missing so much of what Freelance had years ago.
Printing of handouts is just awful - so much wasted space and you can't
control it!

      Aside: do you know if they still ****p the "For Dummies" book with
FL/SmartSuite
      instead of a manual?




As far as I can tell you can't really buy it now other than on a sup****t
contract basis - its really odd. I last purchased a copy 18 months ago to
get an update so that it was stable on XP/SP2 from a third party vendor
and it was just a CD box - no manual no nothing.

Lotus are now focussed on Symphony - which I discovered last night does a
reasonable job of converting PRZ to PPT.

      ... non-pro****tional font. Once you manually format text differently
from
      the master, PPT pretty much leaves it alone, even if you switch
masters.





      Or if you don't need the HTML text to appear in the outline, you can
add
      a new text box using the drawing tools and format the text to taste.




Thank you Steve - I hadn't thought about that approach.

Do you know if it is possible to get an existing text block to "attach" to
the master text block the way Freelance lets you? I can live with my HTML
etc. stuff not being controlled by a master (although it is frustrating)
but having to manually tweak every single page ...

Since you know Freelance some perhaps you also know if PPT has any way to
allows you to pick up attributes for an object/text-block and apply them
to another similar object?

Do you by any chance know if some of these issues are addressed by the
2008 version?

Many thanks.