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wings
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: Help with Openoffice please! |
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I am trying to put together a snappy 'power point' presentation for one of my classes using openoffice impress.
Part of the presentation will be slides with sentences with mistakes. Each slide will have 1 incorrect sentence.
What I want to make happen is that when I hit the mouse instead of moving to a different slide the correct sentence will fly in from the side or wherever and attach itself to the original slide, underneath the incorrect sentence.
I would also like to have a picture and have a sentence pop up under it when I click the mouse.
Unfortunatly I have NO idea how to do this. I tried looking at on line tutorials but they are all really long and I just need to know this one little thing for now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks! |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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In PPT, you left click and selelct custom animation and away you go. I've no idea what openoffice is, but I'd imagine that if it's a half decent presentation suite, then it should have something akin to PPT. Keep on tinkering around with it suppose.
Do you not have PowerPoint? Or is it the Korean language version? |
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wings
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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Wow that was easy, Thanks!
I have power point but it is the Korean version, so I downloaded Openoffice, which is really great, and free. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| THe whole openoffice suite is great....and you don't haev to pay through the nose for Microshit...I mean soft. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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I like the new Office 2007 and its layout, but it has bugs.
Also, the .docx format is a joke... only there to try to force people into incompatibility issues with earlier versions for the sake of inconvenience and sales of a product that people felt was "good enough" as-is. I hope it does't work. Stupid that you can't change the default to .doc format. (at least I haven't seen how). |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a Word guru. I can make it sing. I've seen a lot of word processors that are crap for one reason or another. But the most recent versions of OpenOffice, I'm impressed. It can do everything I need Word to do and does it without a lot of hand holding crap MS products put users through these days. |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| Another thumbs up for OpenOffice. I use its Word and Excel clones every day, and its PowerPoint clone frequently. Stable, simple, frequent updates, etc. |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I'm a Word guru. I can make it sing. I've seen a lot of word processors that are crap for one reason or another. But the most recent versions of OpenOffice, I'm impressed. It can do everything I need Word to do and does it without a lot of hand holding crap MS products put users through these days. |
How and why are you a Word guru? I thought that 90% of the functions were to justify its price/upgrade. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
I like the new Office 2007 and its layout, but it has bugs.
Also, the .docx format is a joke... only there to try to force people into incompatibility issues with earlier versions for the sake of inconvenience and sales of a product that people felt was "good enough" as-is. I hope it does't work. Stupid that you can't change the default to .doc format. (at least I haven't seen how). |
office button -word options -save -save files in this format |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| tfunk wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I'm a Word guru. I can make it sing. I've seen a lot of word processors that are crap for one reason or another. But the most recent versions of OpenOffice, I'm impressed. It can do everything I need Word to do and does it without a lot of hand holding crap MS products put users through these days. |
How and why are you a Word guru? I thought that 90% of the functions were to justify its price/upgrade. |
Don't know about mm2, but I'm a word "power user" because I do a lot of desktop publishing.
For example:
Using styles (the box that says "Heading 1, 2, 3," and "Default Text" etc) means I can format text very quickly, and can drop in a table of contents (which pulls from the headings) with three clicks. And if I change the page order or add something to the middle, I can update the table of contents with two clicks.
Its nice to be able to embed an excel table in word so that when you enter numbers, the embedded spreadsheet automatically crunches them with formulas you've set up, and because it is embedded in a word document, what you print looks great.
Mail merge is great.
Tracking changes is really useful when you want to edit something someone else wrote. Adding comments is great too, almost like a little post-it note on the page. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Beware if powerpoints made with open office don't work on another PC which has MS powerpoint. Small things like timing may not work at first.
Thinkfree.com has very good online MS-clone software if you need to test how your Openoffice doc will work, or just tinker with it.
Also good if you have to use another maching which is not your regular one.
Once you get the hang of adding textboxes and effects-on-click, you'll be churning out good powerpoints to catch the attention of your class. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| tfunk wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I'm a Word guru. I can make it sing. I've seen a lot of word processors that are crap for one reason or another. But the most recent versions of OpenOffice, I'm impressed. It can do everything I need Word to do and does it without a lot of hand holding crap MS products put users through these days. |
How and why are you a Word guru? I thought that 90% of the functions were to justify its price/upgrade. |
Word is a swiss army knife. You might not use all the features at once. You'll notice, for example, in the tech forum I've created a word macro to randomize multiple choice question answers. Word's powerful macro language and its ability to manipulate text is highly useful when you're trying to, I dunno, take text exported from a Revenue Canada PDF and you need to get it into HTML Help format. Or you want to create a single source file and then write a macro to spin it off into both a paper user guide and a help file.
So geez. I dunno. I use Word to create everything from one sheet marketing documents, to white papers, to complex multi document technical manuals, to online help files, to web pages, etc.
If you've been in the DTP business for a long time, you've seen Word slowly add features normally found on high end DTP software. |
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