Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
I agree, Kevin, but we're off the point of what I need to do :) Cheers, Andrew On 09/02/2013, at 3:08 AM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: > On 2/8/2013 10:58 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: >> On 02/07/2013 09:37 AM, Michel Dauchez wrote: >>> Hi Jay, >>> >>> This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation >>> program does the same. >>> >>> >>> Michel >> >> I suspected as much because the slide should be a highlight not the entire >> text. When I give presentations/lectures/talks I use the slides to keep me >> on track. >> >> Jay > > I recently saw one of the best presentations ever, which did not have a > single bullet point, and scarcely any text at all. Each slide was an image > that illustrated the thought involved. > > My rule is that if people can understand your content just by reading the > slides, you are doing it wrong. And in that case, just give them the slides > to review on their own time and cancel the meeting. > > Regards, > > -- > Kevin B. O'Brien > zwil...@zwilnik.com > A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw. > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
On 2/8/2013 10:58 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/07/2013 09:37 AM, Michel Dauchez wrote: Hi Jay, This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation program does the same. Michel I suspected as much because the slide should be a highlight not the entire text. When I give presentations/lectures/talks I use the slides to keep me on track. Jay I recently saw one of the best presentations ever, which did not have a single bullet point, and scarcely any text at all. Each slide was an image that illustrated the thought involved. My rule is that if people can understand your content just by reading the slides, you are doing it wrong. And in that case, just give them the slides to review on their own time and cancel the meeting. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
On 02/07/2013 09:37 AM, Michel Dauchez wrote: Hi Jay, This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation program does the same. Michel I suspected as much because the slide should be a highlight not the entire text. When I give presentations/lectures/talks I use the slides to keep me on track. Jay -Message d'origine- De : Jay Lozier [mailto:jsloz...@gmail.com] Envoyé : jeudi 7 février 2013 15:31 À : users@global.libreoffice.org Objet : Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file On 02/07/2013 01:55 AM, Andrew K wrote: Hi, New LO here and it seems I'm not so good with Impress presentations! I've been given an Impress file to edit and some slides need to have more text added. As I do that, it seems that the size of the text gets smaller, but the font size doesn't change. What's going on, please? More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it globally, or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, or worse, for each slide in each presentation? LibreOffice 3.4.3 Mac OSX 10.6.8 Thanks for any help. Andrew I have seen the same behavior in PowerPoint. AFAIK the assumption is that the text being entered must fit on one slide so the size is adjusted to fit the text area on the slide. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
Keynote doesn't. Thankfully! But in this instance (regularly) I have to use LibreOffice. I will get to the earlier suggestion in a few hours from now. Thanks for all the information and assistance so far. Great list :) Andrew Sent from my iPhone On 08/02/2013, at 1:37, Michel Dauchez wrote: > Hi Jay, > > This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation > program does the same. > > > Michel > > -Message d'origine- > > > On 02/07/2013 01:55 AM, Andrew K wrote: >> Hi, >> >> New LO here and it seems I'm not so good with Impress presentations! >> >> I've been given an Impress file to edit and some slides need to have more >> text added. As I do that, it seems that the size of the text gets smaller, >> but the font size doesn't change. >> >> What's going on, please? >> >> More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it >> globally, or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, or worse, >> for each slide in each presentation? >> >> LibreOffice 3.4.3 >> Mac OSX 10.6.8 >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Andrew > I have seen the same behavior in PowerPoint. AFAIK the assumption is > that the text being entered must fit on one slide so the size is > adjusted to fit the text area on the slide. > > -- > Jay Lozier > jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
RE: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
Hi Jay, This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation program does the same. Michel -Message d'origine- De : Jay Lozier [mailto:jsloz...@gmail.com] Envoyé : jeudi 7 février 2013 15:31 À : users@global.libreoffice.org Objet : Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file On 02/07/2013 01:55 AM, Andrew K wrote: > Hi, > > New LO here and it seems I'm not so good with Impress presentations! > > I've been given an Impress file to edit and some slides need to have more > text added. As I do that, it seems that the size of the text gets smaller, > but the font size doesn't change. > > What's going on, please? > > More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it globally, > or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, or worse, for each > slide in each presentation? > > LibreOffice 3.4.3 > Mac OSX 10.6.8 > > Thanks for any help. > > Andrew I have seen the same behavior in PowerPoint. AFAIK the assumption is that the text being entered must fit on one slide so the size is adjusted to fit the text area on the slide. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
On 02/07/2013 01:55 AM, Andrew K wrote: Hi, New LO here and it seems I'm not so good with Impress presentations! I've been given an Impress file to edit and some slides need to have more text added. As I do that, it seems that the size of the text gets smaller, but the font size doesn't change. What's going on, please? More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it globally, or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, or worse, for each slide in each presentation? LibreOffice 3.4.3 Mac OSX 10.6.8 Thanks for any help. Andrew I have seen the same behavior in PowerPoint. AFAIK the assumption is that the text being entered must fit on one slide so the size is adjusted to fit the text area on the slide. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
Hi Andrew, Sorry. Forgot the second part of your question. > More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it > globally, or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, > or worse, for each slide in each presentation? You can change this behavior globally for the document by adjusting the setting in the appropriate styles. Unless there are some very specific things going on in your presentation it should be enough to open the styles menu (F11), select the graphical styles (the lefmost icon with the square, triangle and circle) and after that "Default" from the list. From there you should see again the familiar option dialogs from my previous mail. If you want to change this for all your presentations, then just edit the template or copy an existing presentation as a new template. See "Templates" under "File" in the menubar. Grx HdV -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
Hai Andrew, Most probably the linespacing is reduced to fit the text in the textbox. If you click somewhere on the text and then press escape you'll see a hatched border (or in some versions only 6 little blue squares) to indicate the textbox your text is a part of. Put the cursor over that border (or one of the squares) and with the right button of your mouse select one of "Text...", "Size and position..." or "Paragraph...". All these dialogs contain settings that might influence this behavoir. I suspect you have a setting in one of those that automatically adjusts the linespacing or another property of the text so that is is made to fit in the textbox. Try fiddling around with those 'til you find one that satisfies your needs. Most descriptions are quite self-explaining, so I suspect you'll find the right one quiet easily. If not, ask again and we'll try to help you. Grx HdV - Original Message - > From: "Andrew K" > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:55:03 AM > Subject: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file > > Hi, > > New LO here and it seems I'm not so good with Impress presentations! > > I've been given an Impress file to edit and some slides need to have > more text added. As I do that, it seems that the size of the text > gets smaller, but the font size doesn't change. > > What's going on, please? > > More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it > globally, or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, > or worse, for each slide in each presentation? > > LibreOffice 3.4.3 > Mac OSX 10.6.8 > > Thanks for any help. > > Andrew > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot > be deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file
Hi, New LO here and it seems I'm not so good with Impress presentations! I've been given an Impress file to edit and some slides need to have more text added. As I do that, it seems that the size of the text gets smaller, but the font size doesn't change. What's going on, please? More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it globally, or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, or worse, for each slide in each presentation? LibreOffice 3.4.3 Mac OSX 10.6.8 Thanks for any help. Andrew -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
