On Wednesday 11 October 2006 11:46 pm, Jennifer Hays wrote: > I am using Open Office 2.0 and am using the Impress power point > programme for the first time. > > > My problem is that certain features that I am using do not > "survive" saving, closing, and re-opening the document. The two > main problems are: > > > 1) Transparent backgrounds. I am able to copy in a photo and make > it a transparent background (at 80% transparency) and it looks > great. However whenever I save the document and re-open it, all of > the pictures that I have made transparent become completely opaque > again and cover the text. This happens every time I close and > re-open my presentation. > > > 2) Bullets. When I make a bulleted list on a slide the bullets > appear right up next to the text and with no indentation for the > second line. I adjust them using Format - Paragraph and Format - > Bullets and Numbering so that there is an indentation between the > bullet and the text, and so that the text is all aligned indented > from the bullets. But again, whenever I save, close and reopen the > document, the bullets again appear with no indentation. > > > I am desperately trying to finish a presentation for work, and am > getting extremely frustrated with this. I have tried everything I > can think of, but these two features seem not to be able to save. > > > Has anyone had this problem??? > Or does anyone have any advice? > > Thank you, > Jennifer
From another member of this mailing list: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm guessing that you are saving your presentation as a Microsoft Powerpoint file. Impress's native file format is an OpenDocument Presentation file (with the file extension .odp). If you were to save your document this way, no features would be lost. When you save your document as a Microsoft file, there is always the possibility that you might lose some formatting. This is because Impress and Powerpoint are similar but not identical in their features, and also because Microsoft have not made public how their file format works. Here is my recommendations: 1. If you are able to use OpenOffice.org at work to display the presentation, then it is better to use the OpenDocument format the whole time. No information will be lost. 2. If you have to use Microsoft Office to display the presentation at work, then I recomment that you use the OpenDocument format while you are creating the presentation in OpenOffice, then save the document as a Powerpoint presentation after that. I recommend that you open the document in Powerpoint and check it before doing the presentation - you may find you need to do some adjustments. 3. If you are not using transitions in your presentation, you might want to consider using Adobe Acrobat to do the presentation. After creating the presentation, you can export as Adobe Acrobat, and all formatting should be retained perfectly, including fonts. Hope I've been clear, and the above helps. Adrian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
