https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=79361
hintbw <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #2 from hintbw <[email protected]> --- I found this usability issue/enhancement to still be an issue with the latest snapshot of OOo 4.0. Windows 7 3 GB of Ram OOo build - 4.0 (revision 1491860) As a relatively novice user of OpenOffice.org Impress and a moderate user of MS PowerPoint, I performed the following steps to try and change the background image for the slides in my presentation: Pre-requisite: I'm assuming a user will be working in a presentation or have a blank one that they have started with. I used a blank presentation and that the user knows how to change the background of their slides, but does not know how to select a custom image. 1. Selected Page from the Format menu 2. Selected the Background tab 3. Selected Bitmap from the Fill options menu 4. Examined the open dialog for a way to add a custom image I had on my computer 5. Not finding an option for a custom image, I decided I would need to consult the help menu at this point and click on the help button 6. Looked in the help text for backgrounds that appeared I was able to find the instructions for how to import a new image and followed them 7. Open another application, Draw, leaving Impress open in the background 8. Selected Page from the Format menu 9. Selected the Background tab 10. Selected Bitmap from the Fill options menu 11. Found no import button 12. At this point, I was not able to accomplish what I had set out to do (change a background to a custom image) and went back to the help to search further. I found a section in changing backgrounds that gave different instructions then the help text from step 6. 13. Following the new instructions, I switched back to Impress and closed the dialog box I was in 14. Select the Format menu and then the Area option 15. Selected the bitmap tab 16. Clicked import 17. Selected my image and clicked Open 18. Clicked Ok to dismiss the Format - Area dialog box 19. Click Format menu, then Page 20. Selected background tab 21. Selected bitmap in the fill options 22. Selected my custom image that was now showing and clicked ok As a comparison, in MS PowerPoint 2010: 1. Select Design ribbon 2. Click on Background styles Ribbon option 3. Choose Format Background 4. Choose Picture or texture fill 5. Select File from Insert from options that appear after step 4 6. Select my image and click open Since I did not need to consult the help text (because the option to upload was in the same dialog as selecting picture/image as the fill option), the steps for PowerPoint are fewer as well as because the user only needs to visit one dialog box to accomplish his or her task. PowerPoint's workflow for this particular task is more efficient, allowing a user to accomplish the task of applying a new, custom background image more quickly than is possible in Impress currently. At a minimum it would be helpful to update the help text from step 6 that contained the wrong information for users who look for help from the Format - Page dialog box. Even with an experienced user, however, the steps in OpenOffice Impress to add a custom image to use for the background will require visiting one additional dialog box and, as a result, several additional clicks/steps, than in PowerPoint. If the ability to import a custom image was added to the Format - Page - Background tab screen then the steps to complete the task in the two programs would be about equally efficient. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.
