Had another go at it when I got back home this afternoon, load up time is a bit disconcerting, up to 8 seconds before it appears on screen.

Tried to get a presentation 4 times now and either slides are missing when trying to play it or just nothing, machine just sat there for 20 minutes.

So I thought I must be doing something wrong so asked my daughter to have a try, she uses power point quite a lot for Uni work, her reaction to it was not very good, she gave up after about 1/2 hour.

First impressions are very bad,

Wont import any of my FLV videos, cant resize images in the program, only basic fonts and very frustrating to use.

Not for the creative mind, I spent most of the time using other programs to get the stuff i wanted to go into the slideshow and then had problems doing what i wanted to do.

Good for entertaining 5 year olds for an hour or so but for serious use i wouldn't use it.

Iv tried to think of positives for this software but as yet iv found none.

This program just left me angry and wanting to wipe it from my pc, but i will stick with it for now.

I must admit that with the missing slide problem, I thought it was something that I wasn't doing right. So until everyone else mentioned it, I didn't know it was a problem.

Regarding the templates, I can't select any of them, I can only get the default single box to open at the start of a new creation, and then there doesn't seem any way to get back into the template selection for other slides. Are you only limited to one template per slide show, selected at the beginning?

Am I the only one that can't select a template, or is there something I'm missing that's so obvious, that I can't see it?

I had three hours of total frustration last, tried several times to make a sensible/useful presentation.
Each time the computer either lost parts of the slide/lost previously completed slides/hung at the save stage and finally crashed.
There is too much wrong in this program at present to allow relative novices to try it out.

From what I have seen I would not be interested in using it even if it did work so I am leaving the test now. I just want this program off my computer.
Good luck to the rest of the team, I hope things improve for you.

rowdy