Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't...
by cm2187 on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:32PM
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What I miss, probably more as a PowerPoint competitor, is a Visual Studio/WPF-style editor with WYSIWYG and mark-up side by side.
I don't even want to think about the amount of time I spent trying to select some text I want to edit, buried under other transparent layers or empty, invisible boxes. It would make it also very easy to introduce dynamic references in the text of a textbox in powerpoint (something currently impossible!).
It wouldn't hurt the basic experience for normal users and would make PowerPoint infinitely more powerful for advanced users.
Word is less visual but this side by side approach would also be very useful. Particularly since a lot of the visual formatting is "invisible" in a WYSIWYG editor.
I don't even want to think about the amount of time I spent trying to select some text I want to edit, buried under other transparent layers or empty, invisible boxes. It would make it also very easy to introduce dynamic references in the text of a textbox in powerpoint (something currently impossible!).
It wouldn't hurt the basic experience for normal users and would make PowerPoint infinitely more powerful for advanced users.
Word is less visual but this side by side approach would also be very useful. Particularly since a lot of the visual formatting is "invisible" in a WYSIWYG editor.