On 13/03/2008, Andy Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2008 20:59:46 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 12/03/2008, Brittany Ricci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is their a way to make a slide show just like power point using open > > > ofice? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Use the Impress component: > > File -> New -> Presentation > > > > > Hi Dotan > > I might be guessing wrong here, but I think Brittany is referring to the same > feature that I was asking about - the "pack and go" feature in PowerPoint. > That feature produces a self-contained slide show, whereas your suggestion > creates a presentation file which may or may not be automated.
By self-contained, do you mean an executable file? I hope not. Of all the reasons that you don't want to send a presentation as an excecutable, I'll only list two. One, I cannot run it (I don't use MS Windows). So if you sent it to someone like me, then you would get a letter back requesting the file in another format. Two, executable files can contain all forms of malware. Nobody would run it, even if they could. Impress can export to PDF, shockwave flash, and even an animated gif. Not that I would recommend those formats, but they are all safer and more portable that a Windows executable. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
