Why was the record macro feature removed from Powerpoint 2007?

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Why was the macro feature removed?

Keep in mind that we're volunteers here, not MS employees, so we're not really
party to the reasoning behind the decisions that MS makes. My understanding
(from a MS blog post or some such) is that the macro recorder wasn't all that
great even in 2002/2003 ... it missed all animation stuff and other things.
With all the changes to the object model in 2007, bringing the recorder up to
speed would've taken a LOT of work. They probably decided the resources would
be better spent on other features and rather than deal with a lot of tech
support problems with the macro recorder, they removed it.

I can't say that I agree with that decision. I'd rather have the thing
available to do whatever it can, even if that's not everything.


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