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[lsanderson]

And I may get to work early... Sent home a complicated PowerPoint animation sequence I was trying to do to see if XP was better. It has much more animation capabilities than 2000 or 97 (not that anything other than the full PowerPoint supports them), but their animation control panel and little timelines on the slide made it impossible for me to figure out what was going on. It did let me drag things up and down the animation timeline, which was the main reason I wanted to try it. But since I was trying to animate four layers of overlapping objects, I had too much trouble determining where everything was and when it was getting animated. I finally broke the slide back down to multiple interlaced slides with two layers of animation each to simplify controlling the objects, but I used 2000 PowerPoint to do it. Did I mention that XP PowerPoint was also freaking out with the layers? Some of the slides appeared animated even while I was trying to work on them. One never did settle down enough to start working on it. Getting in and out of preview involved much flipping of objects. Maybe I really oughta buy a P4 or upgrade the video card...