PowerPoint 2010 can't do that? Really?

PowerPoint 2010
By Tim Harsch(Google+) on
July 16, 2011.
Microsoft not addressing age-old issues in PowerPoint
Rating: 1.0

I don't usually need to use PowerPoint, but I find myself today wanting to make a slide where text wraps around and image. Being somewhat PP ignorant, I Googled to find the following article:

Wrap text around an object in PowerPoint 2010, which contains the following disclaimer at the top:

Important: Unlike in other products such as Microsoft Word 2010, text wrapping (around objects such as tables, pictures, shapes, charts, and SmartArt graphics) is not available in PowerPoint 2010. Microsoft takes the needs of our customers seriously, and we apologize for this lack of parity across our products. In response to customer demand, the procedures below might help you achieve a look similar to true text wrapping, but they are merely workarounds. They are not as stable as true text wrapping, and may cause spacing issues if you later change the position of a picture or add or remove text, for example,

You know, I thought that the latest PowerPoint seemed so powerful and have been generally pretty impressed. But when I hit this I thought: you mean after how many years? 15? or more, that Microsoft couldn't address this so seemingly basic an operation by now?