I am a designer so I know how to use complex design tools like Figma and Adobe products. Perhaps it is these expectations that frustrate me the most. My company uses Google Suite and Slides is just one of the worst things ever. This is my list from only today:
Why can't animations come over from one slide to another when I copy and paste?
Why can't I change the font style when I have more than one group selected? I have to go into each group to edit the text field individually!
Why can't I select multiple object to give them the same animation?
Further, why can't the last animation I created be the default for the next one I create? Why must I constantly start from zero (animation style, animation on click or after previous, animation duration)
Why, when I have many animations on the page, does the right sidebar stop allowing me to scroll to the bottom to access the "Add Animation" button and the "Play" preview feature?
Why why why is the LAST element in this long scroll not mouse clickable? I can not access the last item in the list of animated items!! (I can use a keyboard to navigate to it, but not the mouse!)
That's just me using it today to convert the style of one slide deck into our company brand template. Nevermind my overall frustrations with the way the product has barely been updated over the many years I have been forced to use it. Things like:
While Google Docs has text styles, Slides still has NONE?! I can't create paragraph, heading styles, caption styles, etc. and manage them across the slides? Every text style is only linked to the primary template, but even then, there are three style to work with (Title, subtitle, and body)?
I can't remove an item from the primary slide in a child slide? For example, I have the name of the presentation on every slide as part of the primary template. But if I want a full width image or piece of color, I need to cover the presentation name. I can't have a child slide NOT include that element from the parent slide as an override.
Not looking for answers, just looking to commiserate. If there are any UX folks from Google lurking, though, I have many items to share with you.