Weird table behaviour in PPT

Question

Dear all,

I found something weird in PPT 2010. When working with a presentation in compatibility mode and rotating text in tables by 90° this table is converted to a picture... Checking for issues provides the information can not be edited in earlier versions...

When changing the text direction to vertical (requires FarEast keyboard enabling) this is not happening...

On top of that the other (new) functions like 270° are grreyed out, like they are supposed to be in compatibility mode...

Is this a known bug?

Why is this opportunity not greyed out in compatibility mode?

Many thanks for your help!!

Answer 1

Hi,

It is weird that Rotate all 270 and Stacked are disabled when you open a PPT in compatibility mode. You could convert it to PPTX which enabled those two again and then use those commands. Then you can save back to PPT.

Regards,

Shyam Pillai

Answer 2

Yea, it certainly is a pain point during transition phase.

Here is some information on the compatible mode behvior across Office apps - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178998(office.12).aspx

Regards,

Shyam

Answer 3

Hi Shyam, Many thanks for your response, but I was under the impression that Office 2010 use compatibility mode to control the exchange of content between each program and its earlier version to ensure maximum quality for sharing content between different versions. My question is why are some features correctly "disabled" while others are not... When I do the round trip pptx, employ a feature which is not supported in 2003, then during a transition phase all 2003 users can not edit the content... A table should be editable...:-(