We have just created a presentation of 14 slides of which 7 pictures are missing when we viewed the preview. We realise that this is a beta programme so there are no help files, but we would hope that in the final release the developers include a very comprehensive help file that includes within it how to address the missing slides.

The header & footer boxes have cutoff chunks of text thus making the presentation look shabby,there was no indication that perhaps we had used too many words along the line and we couldnt see how we could fix the missing text.

We havent tried to save the presentation as the preview option missed so many images that there isnt really anything worth saving.The "save as" option took milliseconds to complete so others having problems might be to do with the "save" option only.

(The "we" I refer to is myself and my daughter as we worked together on creating a presentation)

after 10 minutes playing around i got the feel of what everything does so first impressions are that its quite easy to use.

my first real attempt the outline boxes in the template wouldnt show up so i had to start again

next time i went to preview a page and IMP told me it was saving the presentation but it was still doing this 10 mins later so i shut it down.

just made a simple presentation of six slides ive imported some photos and when i came to preview the presentation the imported photos were not there but when i changed them to stock photos they were in the presentation. But imported video appeared with no problems.

ill now have a read to see if anyone has got any similar problems

First attempt went well keeping the presentation to the bare bones. However I would echo some of the above comments regarding the placement of the differing functions/controls.

Well, I've given it a bit of a workout now, and I have to say that it doesn't inspire me, especially taking the expected retail price into consideration.

Firstly, it may be fairly easy to use, but I don't think it gives particularly good results, coming across as quite limited. I'd avoid calling it "intuitive" because, although it may be easy, there were a number of things I expected it to do that it doesn't - or doesn't obviously do.

Slow to load, and no indication that it is loading... might be better with an opening screenshot.

You can't just double-click on a selection to progress to the next menu, as you can in many Windows apps, you have to find the OK button each time. I wanted to be able to just drag n' drop when I couldn't. Not being able to move text around as I wanted was also a bind.

Font range seemed limited - not accessing the full range available on my computer.

Why stick "Save As" under an option "Migrate"...?

I also get missing slides - often when putting images/video from different folders in the presentation.

I managed to get it to repeatedly crash if I renamed the original of one of the imported images while the presentation was being prepared.

Boxes don't scale to fit text size.

Video formats? I had problems importing files as only Flash available... there are plenty of free converters, and including this within the product would be an essential for me.

Settings... Global seems to do nothing...

However, I did manage to make a decent set of ten slides, and have transferred it across to another machine. It looks "OK", but I don't feel that it's as good as I'd have got from Powerpoint, even if it had been my first Powerpoint presentation.

I'm going to make another presentation, and see how quickly the learning curve is: can I do something much more complex, now I've had a go...

a strange thing with a "tool tip" apparing backwards a couple of times...

Heres a cropped screenshot;
click here

Regards,

Simsy