I wholeheartedly disagree. The usability improvements have been major for me, and I can't think of any regressions.

Again, I think Microsoft has to (and is doing arguably well at) focusing on the lowest common denominator of users.

Well to start with, if you format a table in excel and copy-paste it to powerpoint, the formatting now disappears. The only way seems to paste it as an image which is pretty bad.

When you format the number format of the axis of a chart, you now need two steps, adding the new numberformat to a list instead of applying it directly, it serves no purpose.

When you open a spreadsheet programatically it now opens in the background of the current sheet so you have to manually look up for it instead of opening at the front as before.

When you want to save to file it is now a two steps process, where you have to select filesystem as opposed to cloud stuff then you can save. I don't use MSFT's cloud services, this is a regression to me.

When I open a spreadsheet from an email, I now have to click the edit mode at the top to be able to do anything with it.

Microsoft making it increasingly difficult to for someone to install addin or execute macros, you now have to disable many security settings. More pain for my ass, particularly if I need to do this with my colleagues computers.

Lots of small things like that, that balance the many nano-improvements that appeared over 20 years.

> Well to start with, if you format a table in excel and copy-paste it to powerpoint, the formatting now disappears. The only way seems to paste it as an image which is pretty bad.

Paste it as an EMF and it works perfectly. EMF is the Microsoft alternative to an SVG.

Some professional third-party tools append metadata to that EMF to allow for easy tracking of the original source file. So the user can customize formatting in Excel and use PPT just to build the output

Still pasted as image. If someone needs to modify it at the last minute in the poweroint you are screwed.

Yes, it's a trade-off. For complex charts that rely on lots of data outside of the exact output, you can't really embed charts into PPT.

Plus, you can always ungroup the image and it will turn into shapes and textboxes if you need a quick last minute typo fix

But we are talking about a table here. There is really no good reason not to leave the format. All formatting in excel map to a formatting in ppt. And it worked fine only a couple of versions ago!