powerpoint users - help !

[markmarkymark]

Morning ...

I have the latest powerpoint. Creating a presentation at the moment ...

Well if I say already have a picture on a slide and I insert another picture, the first picture is moved and the inserted picture is resized ??? If I go to edit I can tell it to 'undo slide layout' and all returns to as it should be. Anyone tell me whats going on - I'm sure there must be an 'auto-something-or-other' going on ....

cheers all

Mark

edit : sorted. I have just turned off a most dumb ass feature. Go to TOOLS, then AUTO CORRECT OPTIONS, then AUTOFORMAT AS YOU TYPE - and then deselect the 'Automatic layout for inserted options' box. This has been driving me nuts, and I can not be the only one to suffer this !

[ntl customer]

This has been driving me nuts, and I can not be the only one to suffer this !

No you're not the only one. I hate the way that Microsoft software is always set up by default to be as 'helpful' as possible.

This 'helpfullness' often tends to drive me nuts, from automatic hyperlinking of emails and web addresses in word documents (aarrggh...why the hell does it have to be blue and underlined? surely it can be more discreet ?) to automatic numbering and bullet pointing.

The first thing I always do when I reinstall Office or log onto a network where they have Office for the first time is switch off the settings that will start to drive me nuts and over time may lead to me throwing the PC out of the window!

Why does Office try to be so helpful when it is not?