Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2008

Just installed Office:Mac 2008, trying to create numerous guide lines in PP. Even in PP 2004 working with guides was annoying at best (difficult to select/copy/move, limit to # of guides, no way to lock guides, etc), but PP2008 is UNBEARABLE:

1. find it EVEN HARDER THAN BEFORE to select a guide for moving or copying - seems WAY more fussy to get the cursor EXACTLY on the right pixel, even if I go to 400% view (the guides obviously are represented by a single-pixel line at any view)

2. many times the cursor doesn't move a guide at all, or drops the guide while moving

3. when I use OPT or OPT+SHIFT to duplicate and move a guide, a couple things go wrong: 1) the cursor displays the decimal measurement representing my movement or my current location (depending on whether the SHIFT key is down) but it doesn't register the proper number - it's stuck on either the current position or on '0.00' (no movement) if the SHIFT key is down. 2) the 'plus' sign displays indicating there's a duplicate guide being moved, but there's NO GUIDE - no blue line, both when I'm moving and when i let go.

4. about half the time I select a guide - whether to move or to copy - the guide instantly disappears and there's a translucent pink 'selection box' actively being drawn (as if I were trying to click and drag a selection around objects).

And as always - why can't I LOCK guides!?!?! Lame lame lame, and makes my work VERY difficult and tedious.