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I ran into my first chronic problem with my iBook today... and I can already predict what my mac friends will say:

1) You should be using Keynote.
2) It's no wonder since it's a Micro$oft program... they probably rigged it that way so that you'd buy a WinBloze machine.
3) You wouldn't have had the problem if you hadn't started on a PC.
4) You should be using Keynote.

While editing a presentation today, PowerPoint kept "unexpectedly quit"-ing. It was repetitively annoying.

"The Application PowerPoint has Unexpectedly Quit"
"The Application PowerPoint has Unexpectedly Quit"
"The Application PowerPoint has Unexpectedly Quit"

The best I can tell... it seemed to have something to do with redrawing the screen when I was "nudging" text (using the arrow keys.) I don't have a Windows version of PowerPoint handy here, so I couldn't compare to see if the problem was with the file. However, once I did a "Save As...," the crashes decreased, but weren't eliminated. I just got real handy with the Command-S.

I kind of doubt #2, I don't have the time to test #3 and as far as #1/4 is concerned, I couldn't justify the pricepoint of Keynote versus getting the whole suite of programs... plus an upgrade to Office 2004. Maybe the new version will work out the bugs. Or maybe, next time, I'll start and finish the presentation on this machine.