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EddieM
What a shower of sh1t. Both utterly unusable. Fortunately I very seldom have to use either travesty. Talk of productivity disenabler.
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I use PicturestoExe for presentations although designed to produce an exe presentation so you need nothing pre-loaded onto the computer used to give the presentation I often save as a video as some places their virus software does not like exe files.
Speech music video and stills can all be used, with zoom in and out on the stills. After using it I would not return to power point. Only advantage is being able to print pages, but why would you want to?
As to Visio depends what you want to do, there are many better packages but each seems to specialise in one direction, Visio is Jack of all and master of non, and if you don't want loads of programs loaded onto the PC then it is a good all round for the odd use.
It is surprising what you can do with the MS VB for applications built into to the Office Suite. The main problem is schools and collages seem only to teach microsoft products, they must get a back hander! Also same with art seems only option is Photoshop. So give a school leaver PowerPoint and they know what to do, but give them Picturerstoexe and they scratch their heads, it is very similar to flash not seen flash for years, seems apple did not like it and did all they could to stop it being used on their computers.
Today I use a lot of Java Script for web based presentations however I manually write it which is time consuming not something one could do on a commercial basis, you can get tools to auto write Java Script for you, but I don't want to pay so I do it manually.
Speech music video and stills can all be used, with zoom in and out on the stills. After using it I would not return to power point. Only advantage is being able to print pages, but why would you want to?
As to Visio depends what you want to do, there are many better packages but each seems to specialise in one direction, Visio is Jack of all and master of non, and if you don't want loads of programs loaded onto the PC then it is a good all round for the odd use.
It is surprising what you can do with the MS VB for applications built into to the Office Suite. The main problem is schools and collages seem only to teach microsoft products, they must get a back hander! Also same with art seems only option is Photoshop. So give a school leaver PowerPoint and they know what to do, but give them Picturerstoexe and they scratch their heads, it is very similar to flash not seen flash for years, seems apple did not like it and did all they could to stop it being used on their computers.
Today I use a lot of Java Script for web based presentations however I manually write it which is time consuming not something one could do on a commercial basis, you can get tools to auto write Java Script for you, but I don't want to pay so I do it manually.
I use these daily (2016 versions) and they are stable - crashes are probably once every few weeks when I'm doing too many memory intensive operations at once on the PC. This is on Windows 10 btw.
What platform (hardware and OS are you running this on?)
Has the PC been rebuilt recently?
Are you using Windows updates to update MS Office as well with bug fixes?
There is probably a reason for the problems you are having and I don't think it is the software - I look after several hundred users who use these a lot and we have no issues of the sort of magnitude you are having.
I don't work for Microsoft btw - just been supporting their products with all their faults for a very long time and have more than a little insight into these sorts of issues.
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EddieM
Nothing to do with stability, it's usability they both bloody awful as products.
Win 10, i5 laptop ssd hard drive 16GB RAM all updates installed. Now if we're talking excel different kettle of fish, I like excel, just a bit of a shame it's unstable on my laptop. I blame conditional formatting for that though. My only gripe with excel is that the charting functions are a bit crap.
Win 10, i5 laptop ssd hard drive 16GB RAM all updates installed. Now if we're talking excel different kettle of fish, I like excel, just a bit of a shame it's unstable on my laptop. I blame conditional formatting for that though. My only gripe with excel is that the charting functions are a bit crap.
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EddieM
I solved the problem. I do it all in excel and give to a co-worker to put it in either visio or powerpoint. That way I never have to use either product again. Sorted.
There's no specific problems I just can't understand either product and I can't be bothered to work out how to use them.