On 04/01/2009 11:35 AM, bg wrote: > I am attempting without much success to create a very simple, > basic slideshow, consisting of 25 slides, each of which needs to > contain no more than one to four lines of text. > > No graphics. > > No colors. > > No special effects. > > Especially, no special pre-designed formats. > > I have read every word of the incorporated Help pages. > I have downloaded the three significant-appearing Impress "tutorials", > and read every single word of those. Nowhere does it demonstrate how to > do basic editing of simple text imported from an Open Office text > document. The default toolbar apparently assumes > that one would never want to change the font size. I could go on. > > I expect to be presented with a WYSIWYG default, but apparently > Impress, like so much modern software, has a mind of its own. > > *Is* it possible to create simple pages with nothing but words > on them, in Impress? Without having to deal with graphical > "text object" fields and such? Can it operate as a simple editor?
Yes. Select the blank layout, then View|Toolbars|Drawing - select the 'T' icon, place your cursor where you'd like to start, and start typing. > > Or should I construct my 25 pages in OOWriter, then import them into > slides, one by one, with an expectation that they will make the > transaction in something roughly resembling their original basic form? > > The help files and tutorials do not address this at all, from what I can > see. Like most modern documentation, they make the twin errors > of assuming prior knowledge not necessarily in evidence, and its > companion assumption that the user wants to start right in with the most > complicated features of the program, rather than launch with > some basics and complexify up from there. > > Thanks for whatever advice you can offer.... > > Brewster Gillett > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
