Firstly, why bother to write this text in a document? I had to waste time to download document and view when it would have been quicker to write as a message. For the benefit of others and to make a quick reply, comments shown below:
>Major Gaps of OpenOffice Impress 3.3 vs. Microsoft Office PowerPoint > > >FILE PROCESSING: > >Slow speed of processing even with high efficiency PCs (major problem !): Is this native odt format documents or m$ documents? If the latter, not the fault of OO. By fair comparison, write a document in odt format and observe how well m$ office opens the file and _retains_ content format, structure, etc. >Many tasks are performed very very slow ! Examples please? >Cutting slides: very, very slow m$ slides or OO slides? >Copying and pasting slides from one impress file to another: very, very slow Text slides or graphic slides? >Acquiring a slide change, even in the text: quite slow >Saving files: very slow >Opening files: very slow > In odt format? >Copy and past slides from one impress file to another: >when a graphic is present in the slide layout, it gets deleted when the slide >is pasted and copied in the destination file (major problem). Not understood. But I have been able to add an image to a slide, copy that slide to a new presentation, successfully. >the color format of the slide in the source file gets changed when the slides >gets pasted in the destination file More information needed; for example image format? Suggest to provide a list of steps to test. >(In P.P., when you paste the slide in the destination file you are asked >whether to retain the original format, including colours, layout graphic, etc.) > >Changing page (slide) (to the following or to the previous one) in normal >view >In "normal" view, it is not possible to shift easily to one page to the >following or the previous one, using for instance the side scroll bar or the >mouse scroll wheel. This is possible only when the zoom size of the page/slide >very small, not with operative size. You have to necessarily click on the new >slide into the left frame with the miniatures slides. This is very cumbersome. > Personally, use the page up/down keys... >ICONS VIEW > >It is not possible to view all the icons of the formatting toolbar, unless you >set a very large window size. Please allow to arrange the toolbar in 2 lines, >even when it is integrated in the menù bar. >Please allow to change the order of icons within a toolbar. > > What formatting toolbar? You could "float" the toolbar and customise with as many icons as preferred. > > >FORMATTING > >Bulletted list: >I can't set easily and automatically a space or a tab between each bullet and >the first character of the paragraph (This option is present in "Open Office " >Word) You mean 'writer'? You can activate bullets and then use the menu bar option 'format', 'bullets and numbering'. > >Increase or decrease indent of a paragraph or a bulletted list: >I can't let the icon left-to-right or right-to-left appear in the Formatting >Toolbar, and therefore it is difficult to increase or decrease the indent >(this option is present in OpenOffice Word) > See above for bullets, but choosing 'paragraph' from the menu bar. >Multiple selection of non-consecutive text >It is not possible, within the text in a same text cell, to select multiple, >non-consecutive words or sentences or different non-consecutive sentences of a >bulletted list (these options are possible in Open Office Word using "CTRL"), >Similarly, within a table, it is not possible to select multiple, non >consecutive words, or sentences or cells (this is possible in Open Office Word >using "CTRL") > Agreed. Better to create/prepare text content in 'writer', graphics in 'draw' and then copy to presentation. >Formatting multiple text cells at the same time. >After you select multiple text cells, the tool bar "Formatting" disappears. >Therefore, you have to go to the Edit toolbar or right click and make one >change at a time in the text format, which is very time-consuming. > Tried applying styles instead? > >FORMATTING TABLES: >There is no way to select a column or a line just putting the cursor at the >top of the column or before the line > Use the menu bar 'table'? >Changing the column width: putting the cursor onto one column border >(starting from the second column from the left), clicking and dragging it in >order to enlarge or reduce the column width: there is no way to retain the >original width of the side columns (this is partly possible in Open Office >Word by clicking at the same time the CTRL) > I would design the table in Writer and then copy to Impress. >When the file is saved and re-opened, wspecially when a impress file is saved >as M.O. P.P. and then re-opened as impress file, tables gets often increased >in line-spacing (very difficult to reduce back) and, consequently, in the >overall height, so that they often get outside the slide (major problem!) Don't change file formats. Try creating a document using m$ and saving to odt formats; the result is very poor. If you want to use m$ formats, buy m$! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
