Good for viewing, Unusable for editing

This app is good for viewing and presenting but some tiny quirks make it unusable for editing. I have no idea why the pencil defaults to drawing and why does it insist on drawing when not in drawing mode. Countless times within the last 3 hours have I tried to select something or resize something only to have ink all over my presentation. Also why can I not select objects with the lasso tool?

DevavretM about Microsoft PowerPoint, v1.29