On Tue January 3 2006 00:11, Gregory L. Forster wrote: > In my business, I created an Impress presentation and saved it as a > Powerpoint presentation using OpenOffice 2.0 Beta 1.9.???. Copying the > file to floppy, I tried it on my wife's work computer using MS Office > Powerpoint and it worked great! That was a few months ago. I also made > a backup copy. > > The presentation consisted of 5 slides, each slide with the title of my > company. The first slide presented four bulleted points summarizing the > following four slides. The next four slides contain more bulleted > points in detail. The bulleted points were each timed when to fly in, > where to fly in, or appear individually. > > I eventually upgraded to OpenOffice 2.0.1. Tonight, I had to delete a > slide from the file. I deleted the one slide from my standard copy and > re-saved it again as a Powerpoint file. Then I exited. However, when I > reloaded the file and played it, all the bulleted points just popped > in. There was no timing sequence, or direction. > > I then tried the backup copy of the original file, created with > OpenOffice beta and saved as a .ppt Powerpoint file originally. It > worked great! I deleted the one slide, checked all the timing and > appearance sequences and played the presentation. The presentation > played as it was supposed to. I then saved it using a different name, > but as a Powerpoint file.I then closed the file. When I reopened the > file and attempted to play the presentation, all the bulleted points > just popped in. There, again, was no timing or appearance sequences. > > I was so hoping to be able to create an Impress presentation of my > business as a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation for potential clients. > Is OpenOffice 2.0.1 less Microsoft compatible than OpenOffice 1.9.??? > beta 2?
Hi Greg, It should not be. It looks like a significant regression to me. Can you please report this in issuezilla ? ( http://openoffice.org -> "My Pages" -> "Register", then when you receive a confirmation email, "Login" and "File an issue" ) In this way the relevant developers will see your bug report and you will also see the progress of this bug report if it is accepted. Thanks -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
