Anne, In my curiosity to understand what Italo has been saying, I installed LO 6.0.3 to my Puppy Linux partition, and I now understand it.
All the LO developers have done is move the function from the "Insert > File..." menu selection to the "Slide > Insert Slides from File..." menu selection. Once you click on the new menu option from the Slide menu, you'll be prompted to select an .odp file, just as we did when we did it through "Insert > File...". Once you select the file, you'll have the option to select as many or as few of the slides from the file as you want. The functionality has not changed. The only change is that it has been moved from "Insert > File..." to "Slides > Insert Slides from File..." Like you, I question why such a change was needed, but you can still obtain the same results with the same number of mouse clicks. Virgil On 04/17/2018 11:11 AM, anne-ology wrote: > Curiously wondering why it's easier to open - if that's even > possible - more than 1 version of LO > then going through all these steps ... when previously all could > be done within 1 opened LO with a mere click from the Menu line ... ... ... > > Reminds me of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." > > > > > From: Italo Vignoli <it...@documentfoundation.org> > Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:04 PM > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to > another] > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > > > With the latest versions of LibreOffice you have two different options > for inserting slides from one presentation into another one, both tested > and working on every platform. > > A. You can open two different LibreOffice presentations at the same > time, and switch between them using the Window menu. > > When you have two presentations open you can copy and paste slides > between them from the Slide Sorter view: > > 1. Select multiple slides with the mouse while keeping the Ctrl key pressed > 2. Copying them by selecting Edit > Copy or by hitting Crtr+C > 3. Switch to the other presentation from Window > Presentation Name > 4. Past the slides after the selected slide from Edit > Paste or by > hitting Ctrl+V > > B. You can insert multiple slides from another presentation into the > open presentation from Slide > Insert Slide from File... > > 1. Search and open the source presentation > 2. Select any number of slides or the entire presentation > 3. Click OK and wait for the process to complete > > I have just copied/pasted according to option A and inserted according > to option B 60 slides of an 82 slide presentation into another 142 slide > presentation without any issue. > > Although I don't see the need of reverting to an old LibreOffice version > to do the same thing in a different way, you can find old LibreOffice > releases here: > > https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/ > > > > On 12/04/2018 21:29, anne-ology wrote: > >> yes, & thank you for expressing what obviously I was unable to so > do. >> There's also a problem with their copy & paste suggestion, since >> that surely requires having more than one copy of LO open at one time, >> which seems impossible since when I click on LO again, the opened one >> appears rather than a new version. >> >> And when I've gone to the LO archives to attempt to download the >> previous versions, it merely sends me back to the download page to > download >> the newest version. >> >> PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW to download a previous version, if the latest >> versions will no longer have this option available. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
