On Saturday 17 March 2007 12:38, Albert Pye wrote:
> My open office program is great! However, although I can use it to look
> at power point presentations, power point can not open or read
> impresses presentations.
> So, impress will open its own files and powerpoint files, but powerpoint
> will not open impress files.
>
> I have tried saving the impress in various forms. I have tried opening
> it in powerpoint in various ways.
>
> Since most projection systems at universities etc. use powerpoint, it
> is important to create a file that powerpoint can read.
>
> Do you have a solution? If so, please explain.
>
> Albert
There are a number of possible solutions, keeping mind that the usual way one
projects a presentation is to use a laptop with the video going to the
projector.
1. The laptop doesn't care whether it has Powerpoint AND Impress installed on
the same machine, and then it will read both formats.
2. Get the university to replace Powerpoint with Impress, as it can read both
formats, and the issue goes away.
3. Get Microsoft to properly recognise Open Office specifications, since it is
Microsoft software that is deficient.
I suspect you'd rather have those working on Open Office drop working on some
new feature in order to get Open Office Impress to be able to save in
Powerpoint format. It's time for Microsoft to do some work.
OTOH, you could also use something like the conversion offered at
http://cdsconv.cern.ch/ to convert them.
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Bob Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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