On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 12:48, Anthony Chilco wrote: > 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.
bg: Did fine up to that point. > Click 'view / slide master' and stretch the title text object to cover the > entire slide. I think that with some difficulty I have figured out how to do that part. It would be a lot better if there were a truly blank slide, without the often totally unneeded title object. > Select the text in it and choose the font and size you want. I think I am getting that, though I don't know why there has to be any default text in that window in the first place. > Close the master. I'm afraid I could not find anything on how to "close the master". Seemingly clicking on a different tab, like "outline", may have that effect, though I don't know exactly how one could tell. > With the 'Normal' tab selected, click on the title text, select all, This doesn't entirely make sense - presumably at this point I should not have anything in the newly expanded title text box - it should be empty, waiting for me to past into it, shouldn't it? Why would I be selecting anything in the title text box? > then paste your text. I pasted it, but I only got the first two lines, and in a font so small that it was impossible to verify which lines they were. > Select the 'Outline' tab. Position the cursor where you want each > slide break, and press enter. Once having selected the "outline" tab, the system would not allow me to position the cursor. I really begin to wonder whether my installation of OO has, after all these reliable years, become corrupted somehow. > 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 So I guess what you're saying is that when I first paste, I am pasting my entire OOWriter file, with all 25 items in it, then doing cursor positioning and line feeds in order to break from one slide to the next. I guess if the "Outline" tab view were letting me position my cursor, I could test that. But I'm getting an unresponsive cursor on that view. Thanks for your very comprehensive explanation. I'm quite close to deciding to install a newer version of Open Office, and maybe I can get that accomplished in time to finish this slide presentation. Brewster > 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 -- ********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett [email protected] Portland, OR USA ********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. ********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
