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I make a lot of slides. I was in an Office shop, then Google Docs, now back to Office. On one hand, they all suck, and there are lots of horrible idiosyncrasies in each. On the other hand, they are both fine once you get used to them. I hated google slides when I switched, but I got used to it and hated PowerPoint when I switched back.

Google slides is definitely better as a web app. The web version of PowerPoint is unusable. On the other hand, office on the whole is much more polished, has more features, and things you'd take for granted like cut and paste between all the office programs (didnt work for g-suite last time I checked).

The main reason I use office now (in my own business) is because ironically Microsoft is way more customer friendly than google, and I don't want some arbitrary google product change or ML ruling to destroy my business, so I would never use them for something professional. That's much more of a concern than box alignment.

[_fat_santa]

At my company, we started using Figma for creating presentation and slides. Found that even though Figma isn't really designed for making slides like PowerPoint is for example, but folks picked up really quick because it was intuitive. Bonus points for being able to have a library of all of our company assets to use in any slides you were creating. Overall, whatever we lost from not having PowerPoint/Sheets, we gained from not having to pull your hair out fighting it.

[version_five]

Interesting - I've never used figma but I'd be open to trying it. My main concern is that I do a lot of collaboration on presentations, including outside my company, and there would be a lot more friction in having to get collaborators onboarded to figma.

For better or worse, that had always been the appeal or MS Office, pretty much every business uses it so it's easy to share documents. Just like I might rather do my writing in LaTeX, I'm stuck with MS word because of interoperability