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Is it possible to select multiple shapes in Powerpoint for iPad so, for example, I and move a group of items around the screen together?
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PowerPoint now supports selecting multiple object on a slide!
You have to press and hold an object with one finger and then tap other objects with another finger.
Problem solved!!!!
Cheers
Luccino
Selecting multiple objects is currently not supported in PowerPoint for iPad.
If a set of items is already grouped (using a different client like PowerPoint for Windows/Mac), you can move those objects as a group on the iPad.
Thanks for the feedback, and let us know if there is anything else you would like to see improved!
Completely agreed . Planning on dumping the iPad version without this. I am in the business of consulting and this productivity drain ruins the product singlehandedly
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I have to admit I'm cackling madly at the Trabant analogy. We hosted a student from the former East Germany and heard plenty of amusing (to us, surely not to the owners) Trabi stories. ;-)
And after watching a string of "Tell us your problems" mechanisms appear, get ignored, then stop working, I shared your skepticism about UserVoice, but it's already worked a few times. True, it's odd that only a few users out of the bazillions out there can have any effect at all, but I suppose it makes sense to pay attention to the few people with enough interest in the problem to go vote. Certainly beats pretending there are no problems.
Now if you'll pardon me, I'm going to toss a few votes at multi-selection on the iPad. ;-)
Thank you for your balanced and positive reply.
I already cast two votes, but I can hardly believe that some site called UserVoice where around 18 votes were cast for a certain feature will make any difference in an internet world where any number less than 100.000 is only a drop in the ocean. But you never know; maybe I'll win the lottery next week; that's about just as likely as MS acting upon 18 votes.
Besides that I sincerely hope that MS has more channels to keep in touch with the market, because opening one single site - unknown to the average user/ buyer - to channel the market demands for a major product on a major platform is a rather bureaucratic way to keep your ear to the ground; it can't be a serious tool and sounds naive.
I suppose in Eastern Germany the market intelligence for the Trabant (car)factory worked in a similar way with one half hidden mailbox in a remote village somewhere with a hardly readable text painted on it: "suggestions for Trabant here please". Still everybody wanted a Trabant..........
Sorry for my being a bit cynical and I sincerely hope I'm totally wrong and you know more. Keep up the good work.