When it is forced upon me, I have to use Office 365 on the job. That is how I discover all these silly issues.
When it is not forced upon me, I usually use LibreOffice Impress, which also has its issues. When I am done, I export as PDF and then use presentation mode of my PDF reader to present the slides.
I have also seen fancy online tools, which have simpler slides but more navigation during presentation, with up,down,left,right switchting to other slides in a "field of slides" instead of a mere "sequence of slides" like in traditional more power point like tools. I would also like to use things like the Racket lang for slides for example, but haven't looked at it in detail.
But when making a presentation for the job, it might contain material, that is not to be released, so I can only use the sanctified online tool (Office 365), or offline tools. What's more is, that there is a sort of template, which I am supposed to conform to, which of course is done in Office 365 Powerpoint. And of course you cannot export that template properly, to use it in other applications. Well, at least one thing I noticed positively about Office 365: You can export finished documents to Open Document Foundation formats like .odt. That is actually a move, that I do not fully understand MS making. Usually they want to keep everything in the MS world, everything proprietary formats, but then they offer that export. It's almost unreal.
Anyway, even if there was no better tool, that would still not be a justification or excuse for the absolute horrible quality of software, that is Office 365 and Google Docs. I would feel more comfortable using a DSL to code up my slides than using those tools.
When it is not forced upon me, I usually use LibreOffice Impress, which also has its issues. When I am done, I export as PDF and then use presentation mode of my PDF reader to present the slides.
I have also seen fancy online tools, which have simpler slides but more navigation during presentation, with up,down,left,right switchting to other slides in a "field of slides" instead of a mere "sequence of slides" like in traditional more power point like tools. I would also like to use things like the Racket lang for slides for example, but haven't looked at it in detail.
But when making a presentation for the job, it might contain material, that is not to be released, so I can only use the sanctified online tool (Office 365), or offline tools. What's more is, that there is a sort of template, which I am supposed to conform to, which of course is done in Office 365 Powerpoint. And of course you cannot export that template properly, to use it in other applications. Well, at least one thing I noticed positively about Office 365: You can export finished documents to Open Document Foundation formats like .odt. That is actually a move, that I do not fully understand MS making. Usually they want to keep everything in the MS world, everything proprietary formats, but then they offer that export. It's almost unreal.
Anyway, even if there was no better tool, that would still not be a justification or excuse for the absolute horrible quality of software, that is Office 365 and Google Docs. I would feel more comfortable using a DSL to code up my slides than using those tools.