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title: "A Power-Point mystery"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/22/a-power-point-mystery.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/22/a-power-point-mystery.html"
published: "2004-02-22T19:58:00"
updated: "2004-02-22T19:58:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's one for Raymond Chen , since he likes to dig into these things. Why the hell is the “continue from current slide” button in PowerPoint so darn small and unreachable? Many a times have I seen the poor presenter…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# A Power-Point mystery

By Roy Osherove February 22, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 22, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Here's one for [Raymond Chen](http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/), since he likes to dig into these things.

Why **the hell** is the “continue from current slide” button in PowerPoint so darn small and unreachable?

Many a times have I seen the poor presenter struggling to put the cursor directly above the hellish icon to the lower left only to click a different icon by mistake, and repeatedly trying to use the darn laptop touchpad to navigate back to the icon. It looks bad, it _feels_ bad. it **is** bad. Sure, it has a shortcut key (Shift+F5) but some people just rather use the mouse. Why make it so damn hard?

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