Much improved but can’t compete with PowerPoint

Two years ago I tried Google slides and was pretty frustrated with how limited it was. but my feeling is that it’s been much improved, especially the ability to make things exactly the way you want them by zooming in to make final adjustments. I like that the drawing tools easy to use, and that photos are easily cropped and positioned. but I still get frustrated with the large paragraph type boxes which are made to surround every text box — it takes too much effort to make one of those boxes hug single words of Taxl, for example. The PDF rendering is usually good, but quite often I noticed significant differences from the original. my biggest complaint is that you cannot introduce videos unless they are on YouTube or exist as a link somewhere on the web. this is pretty inconvenient and forces me to use PowerPoint a lot. understand why Google can’t allow you to introduce videos which you have stored on your Google drive for example. Of course there are all sorts of things that PowerPoint can do the Google slides cannot. So while google slides is quite good for relatively simple presentations, PowerPoint is there a white I have to go when I want to do something sophisticated.

discerning learner about Google Slides, v1.2017.442