Powerpoint 2007- why MS can not add any special animation effect than before?

I installed MS Office2007 beta last week.
Word and Excel is remarkably improved.

BTW, I envy Apple Keynote's beautiful animation and templates. I sometimes think to buy a mac only for using Keynote.

However, even Keynote is shown years before, PPT can not take any special animation effect than 2003.

Some graphical effects, reflection, looks bad, also.

How do you think so?
Don't you need to do more beautiful presentation to people?

There is a point where Powerpoint/Keynote presentations can get tacky with  too many animations. I think Microsoft nailed the amount and type.

Cybermagellan wrote:

There is a point where Powerpoint/Keynote presentations can get tacky with  too many animations.

And sound effects!  When every letter flys onto the screen indavidually and makes the sound of breaking glass, it's not a good presentation.  [C]

But it wouldn't hurt to add in options just so that they are avalable.
Did you know Silly PowerPoin 2004 has more animations that PowerPoint 2003?

alwaysmc2 wrote:

And sound effects!  When every letter flys onto the screen indavidually and makes the sound of breaking glass, it's not a good presentation.  

Or when every line of text has the race car sound effect, or when people have the slide auto-animating faster or slower then they speak.

Aghh, too many bad memories of people who cant make a good Powerpoint presentation.

zokbari wrote:


However, even Keynote is shown years before,

I have to agree, I use Keynote for my presentations and then export to movies for playback on Windows.  It is a very nice tool.

zokbari wrote:


PPT can not take any special animation effect than 2003.
Don't you need to do more beautiful presentation to people?

Is it not possible to write your own extensions for Transitions in PPT (pref in Managed Code)? If not it should be ...

littleguru wrote:

It is weird that Windows Powerpoint doesn't have the same animations as Mac OS X Powerpoint. I have seen quite cool animations there, which I can't find in the Windows version.

Hah, I have a story.
Someone in my English class needed to give a PowerPoint presentation, so he went to his email and download it from an attachment.  He opened it and Windows asked for him to pick a program.  It had no extension. I (being the designated circuit-head) went up, looked at it, and asked, "You made this on a Mac, didn't you?"  He responded with a "yes."  I was very tempted to say "There's your problem! " but didn’t...  He was baffled that a Mac PowerPoint presentation wouldn't work on Windows PowerPoint without a converting plug-in. (which, by the way, we couldn't install because the system admins are paranoid.)

alwaysmc2 wrote:

Hah, I have a story.
Someone in my English class needed to give a PowerPoint presentation, so he went to his email and download it from an attachment. 

...

Same thing happened with me too.  A kid in my class couldn't get her powerpoint to display images because of some odd Quicktime special compression OS X had done to each image.

The powerpoint opened fine, just no images showed up.