Selecting multiple objects on a slide in Powerpoint for iPad

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.

There's a limit to the amount of developer time they can spend on any project; if the devs spend their time scanning forums and such, they're not spending it on improving the product. 

That's why they set up UserVoice.  It's a way of concentrating the voices of users into one easily accessible place.  And instead of a lot of scattered messages, UserVoice allows us to vote for the features we most want and ignore the ones we don't care about.  The more votes, the more likely a feature is to get implemented.

Most important to understand:  the iPad/iPhone etc versions of Office are still new and still VERY much works in progress.  MS released them with the set of features that seemed most important and have been updating them steadily since, adding the features that users most often ask for.  UserVoice is a direct pipe to the "Users most often ask for" Big Pile o' Stuff for the Devs To Do Next pile at MS. 

It'll take a few minutes max to cast your vote for a feature that's important to you.  If nobody asks for it or votes for it, I wouldn't expect to see it soon.