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Thanks Adrian, that is very helpful and I really appreciate your quick
reply.
You are right--the document was originally a Microsoft presentation that
I have now been working on in Open Office--that must be the problem.
Your suggestions are helpful.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
Jennifer
Dan Lewis wrote:
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
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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
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