On 28/02/2012, e-letter <inp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/02/2012, Roger Sawkins <ro...@sawkins.name> wrote: >> I have Powerpoint on one machine and LibreOffice on another. I want to be >> able to edit and save PowerPoints on either machine. However, when >> loading >> Ppt in Presentation it does not always convert font and layout properly. >> Occasional tabs or spaces are missing or duplicated; occasional text >> boxes >> have text outside the slide, etc. >> > > Your are wasting your time. Make a cost-benefit analysis and decide > whether to use either LO or m$; do not bother trying to use both. >
Sorry for the terrible English; should read: "You are..." >> Then when I then save the presentation as ppt it changes the font, for >> example, from bold to basic and shows tabs or spaces (see above) as >> missing. >> > > This is because m$ has no desire to use odf. To prove the point, > create an odp (two versions, one odf11, another odf12) document using > LO. Open the odp document using m$. Send details of the changes to the > odp file that m$ causes, to m$ technical support. Tell us the results > of your contact with m$. > >> Is there some way of ensuring that the conversions are consistent and >> presentations can be switched back and forth? >> > > Never in a million years. > -- 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