Hi Brewster, For what you want to do, the simplest method would be to type all your text in writer first. Select all and copy. Next open a blank presentation. Click 'view / slide master' and stretch the title text object to cover the entire slide. Select the text in it and choose the font and size you want. Close the master. With the 'Normal' tab selected, click on the title text, select all, then paste your text. Select the 'Outline' tab. Position the cursor where you want each slide break, and press enter. Each time you do that a new slide will be created where the title contains the remainder of the text. I made a 26-slide presentation using your text below in about two minutes. tc
bg wrote: > I am attempting without much success to create a very simple, > basic slideshow, consisting of 25 slides, each of which needs to > contain no more than one to four lines of text. > > No graphics. > > No colors. > > No special effects. > > Especially, no special pre-designed formats. > > I have read every word of the incorporated Help pages. > I have downloaded the three significant-appearing Impress "tutorials", > and read every single word of those. Nowhere does it demonstrate how to > do basic editing of simple text imported from an Open Office text > document. The default toolbar apparently assumes > that one would never want to change the font size. I could go on. > > I expect to be presented with a WYSIWYG default, but apparently > Impress, like so much modern software, has a mind of its own. > > *Is* it possible to create simple pages with nothing but words > on them, in Impress? Without having to deal with graphical > "text object" fields and such? Can it operate as a simple editor? > > Or should I construct my 25 pages in OOWriter, then import them into > slides, one by one, with an expectation that they will make the > transaction in something roughly resembling their original basic form? > > The help files and tutorials do not address this at all, from what I can > see. Like most modern documentation, they make the twin errors > of assuming prior knowledge not necessarily in evidence, and its > companion assumption that the user wants to start right in with the most > complicated features of the program, rather than launch with > some basics and complexify up from there. > > Thanks for whatever advice you can offer.... > > Brewster Gillett > _________________________________________________________________ Create a cool, new character for your Windows Live™ Messenger. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9656621
