Mark vs. Powerpoint

March 25, 2003 @ 11:41 am · Filed under Uncategorized

My brother is in college and is using Microsoft Powerpoint to do a project for the first time. He seems to understand how to use it, but let’s just say that he has yet to have enough experience to deal with the finer points and intricacies of doing projects with Microsoft products. In other words, sometimes they format weird and you have no idea how the hell it came to look like that. Anyone with experience knows exactly what I am talking about. So here is a quote from the email my brother sent me.

Do you remember being a first time user of a Microsoft product? Did you feel like this?

Mark’s Email:
“All the slides are in now and the text is all written in. But I
really need help fixing a lot of shit in this thing. None of the bullets
match and the font sizes are all different.

I am supposed to have sounds along with the animation too. I put in some of the animation but I am not sure if every slide should move the same. The 7th slide has the graph which I am not even sure how I got there in the first place. It is supposed to have text boxes with all of the alternatives shown with boxes and arrows. They are supposed to point to the values for 500 and 1000 with my recommendation and I have no idea even where to begin with that one.

Anyways its 10:30 and I have been playing around with this fucking thing too long. When you get this sometime tonight give me a call. Power Point can eat my ass I don’t know if its me or this program but the fucking thing never does
what I want it to.”

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2 Comments

  1. Sally Said,

    March 25, 2003 @ 10:17 pm

    What is that horrible picture, Craig?

  2. Mark Said,

    March 25, 2003 @ 11:04 pm

    I am almost done with the powerpoint project now and as it turns out it is not all that hard. The computers that I was using originally were kind of messed up I think.I also want Craig to know how delighted I am that he quoted me on his website that my mother is more than likely going to read. Most of the quote is fine except when I drop the F bomb and tell powerpoint to eat my ass. Other than that I am sure my mom will love it.

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