Hi Brewster, I ran through the process again on a different pc and recorded it so you could see what I was doing. Here's a link to the file. It's swf format.
http://www.screencast.com/t/QwtuF0MH hope this helps tc > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:21:16 -0800 > Subject: Re: [users] Impress basics - HELP!/Chilco > > 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. 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