bg wrote:
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
Brewster,
I tried to follow these directions also and none of it worked as
expected. I have 3.0 installed and it behaved exactly as you experienced.
--
Gene Y.
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