I'm confused as to the flow of the discussion, and I'm not at all sure I know what the issue is, but I have no problem inserting an entire Impress presentation into another Impress presentation.
Here's how I do it with LO 5.1.6 on my Linux Mint machine: First, I open one Impress presentation file. I then make sure that the "Slide Panel" is visible by clicking on the menu "View", "Slide Panel" I then click on the slide in the Slide Panel where I want to insert another Impress presentation, keeping in mind that the inserted presentation will appear *after* the slide I click on in the Slide Panel. From my experience, inserting a second presentation only works if my cursor focus is in the Slide Panel. Then, on the menu, I click "Insert", "File...", which on my machine is down toward the bottom of the Insert menu list. From the resulting dialog box, I select the Impress presentation I want to insert and then I am presented with another dialog box from which I can select certain slides from the inserting file. If I want the entire presentation, I simply click on "Ok," and the file is inserted into the original presentation file after the slide I had selected in my Slide Panel. Virgil On 04/04/2018 03:13 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 18:48 03/04/2018 -0500, Anne Noname wrote: >> Thank you for responding, ... > > No probs! > >> ... but I'm still confused, still inserted below my continued reply, >>> From: Brian Barker >>> Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 4:30 PM >>> At 14:46 31/03/2018 -0500, you wrote: >>>> ... am re-sending because I really would appreciate an answer; nary >>>> a soul has responded yet. >>> >>> I'm frankly not surprised. >> >> [I don't understand] > > I meant simply that, as I explained later, your question was > insufficiently clear to encourage or even allow people to offer any help. > >>>> back then, & on the MsFt-compatible computer, I was able to make >>>> PPs, ... >>> >>> Er, what's a "PP", please? If you get no replies, wouldn't it be >>> sensible to wonder if people did not understand your request? Do you >>> perhaps mean a presentation (Impress) document? Or something else? >> >> [sorry, I thought everyone used 'PP' for Power Point presentation or >> Impress] > > In fact not: it's only you. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PP . In > any case, it is unhelpful to anyone trying to help you to confuse the > name of a quite different application (Powerpoint) with a document > that may have been created using LibreOffice (Impress). No-one can > know whether you mean that your problem is related to presentation > documents in general or a particular problem with one created in > Microsoft Powerpoint itself. > >>>> ... saving each version then I would place each of these together >>>> to save only the best parts. >>> >>> Why would you create any parts that were not "best"?! >> >> [for the same reason, when writing anything; first, I get the idea >> down as quickly as possible, then I add flourish to it, then after a >> few days, I return to the piece to edit] > > Oh, indeed so! > >>> Do you mean that you could edit slides from different presentations >>> into a single presentation? Surely you can simply copy slides from >>> the Slides panel in one document and paste them into the Slides >>> panel of the other document? Doesn't that still work for you? >> >> [yes, it allowed me to insert each PP into one; in fact, that's one >> of the main reasons I preferred LO to any of these others. > > I still think it is unhelpful to talk of installing an entire > presentation document (your definition of "PP") into another. So I > think you do mean combining slides from one presentation document into > another. And you are far away from the truth if you think this is > (was?) possible only in LibreOffice: it is certainly possible in > Apache OpenOffice and presumably also in Microsoft Powerpoint. It > would be a poor presentation program that did not allow this. And you > don't have to copy them piecemeal: you can select, copy, and paste > multiple slides - perhaps all the slides in a document. > >> ok, How can I see the slide panel of the other PP when only the one >> PP is open?; are you saying, it's possible to somehow open LO more >> than once? > > Generally no, but you don't need to: you need just to have two > documents open at once. You have two windows open in the same instance > of LibreOffice. That is certainly possible, and is part of the purpose > of windowing operating systems - as all modern systems are. > >> wow, I can't image what this screen would even look like if I had 1/2 >> dozen LOs open at one time.] > > For the present problem, you need one instance of LibreOffice and two > separate document windows - not half a dozen of anything. Don't you do > this sort of thing all the time? I currently happen to have open my > browser, my office suite, a plain text editor, the Windows Settings > panel, and my mail client. The limitation of one program (and perhaps > one document) surely went out with DOS? > >>>> But this feature seems to be lacking now ... >>> >>> If you explained how you did it before, someone may be able to >>> comment on whether your method is still available. >> >> [hopefully - thank you.] > > Er, but you haven't responded to this point: you *still* haven't said > exactly what you did before that you believe is no longer available. > Which menu? What menu item? What process? > >>>> Yes, I can see how to insert images, ... but not how to insert PPs. >>> >>> Hold on: if a "PP" is a presentation document, you cannot insert an >>> entire document into something else. Indeed, what other sort of >>> document would you be trying to insert it into? So a "PP" cannot be >>> a presentation and no-one will know what you are talking about. >> >> [ah, but it was quite possible in the LO 3:] > > As I keep saying, I think it is unhelpful to think of inserting one > document into another. What I am still guessing you mean is inserting > some or all of the slides from one presentation document into another. > Whatever was possible before, surely you can open both documents at > the same time (one instance of LibreOffice; two separate document > windows) and copy and paste slides from one document to the other? > (Yes, you can!) > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
