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IncognitoHFX

Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: OpenOffice 3.0 Irregularities |
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I use OpenOffice Impress for my powerpoint slides and I'm finding the program to be pretty buggy in a lot of ways. While it's a great problem, I always seem to lose background changes I make when I close it / reload it again, regardless of how many times I've saved it.
I could put whatever background on it and it reverts to plain white upon restart.
Does anyone else have this problem? Know a way around it?
I was also wondering if anyone knew how to itemize slides? For example, I want to have all my text on one slide but still be able to press the space bar to have more text appear instead of making a whole ton of slides with each one being part of the whole.
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: Re: OpenOffice 3.0 Irregularities |
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IncognitoHFX wrote: |
I use OpenOffice Impress for my powerpoint slides and I'm finding the program to be pretty buggy in a lot of ways. While it's a great problem, I always seem to lose background changes I make when I close it / reload it again, regardless of how many times I've saved it. |
Think I've been having the same issues. I'll type up a file and save it once and it'll work fine. Then, sometimes, I'll reload it and make some changes and save it. Upon reopening it later, some of the changes will be gone. It seems to be very random for me, and has never happened before in OO. Perhaps I was too fast to upgrade to 3.0... maybe let the bugs get ironed out first. |
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Col.Brandon

Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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OpenOffice is great for basic stuff like word processing and simple spreadsheeting, but try to do anything complicated and you're sunk.
I had to go back to an old copy of MS Office97 to get some VBA code to work properly on a spreadsheet then link to a mail merge (report card processor - saves a lot of work).
I really like the idea of an open-source package, but you have to allow for the fact that people are working on this for free in their own time, and that there are limits to what can be achieved. OpenOffice will be great one day, but in the meantime I've got work that needs to get done. |
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nobbyken

Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone tried thinkfree.com ? |
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