Betalogue

Take a text block in PowerPoint that contains some words in roman characters followed by a word in italics. Say you want to delete the last two words, i.e. the last word in roman characters and the word in italics. So you select them both, like so:

And then you press Delete to delete the selection. In your opinion, what should the cursor for the insertion point look like after the deletion? It should be a regular, vertical I-beam, right?

Wrong! Here’s what you get in PowerPoint 2008:

And yes, if you continue typing after this, the I-beam cursor stays slanted, even though you are now typing in roman characters:

Frankly, if I were a MacBU developer, I would be ashamed of having released such a product. But of course PowerPoint 2004 and the versions that came before were just as bad in their own way, so obviously shame is an unknown concept over there.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 2:46 pm and is filed under Microsoft. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.