staroffice 7.0 ". ppt " output format
I'd appreciate hearing from someone who's used STARTOFFICE 7.0 for a presentation (slides, screenshots, etc..) My question: Is "startoffice 7.0 Power-Point output compatible with MicroSoft Office for Windows/XP PowerPoint ? Thank you so much. Maura
On Friday 05 November 2004 01:03, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I'd appreciate hearing from someone who's used STARTOFFICE 7.0 for a presentation (slides, screenshots, etc..) My question: Is "startoffice 7.0 Power-Point output compatible with MicroSoft Office for Windows/XP PowerPoint ?
Basically, yes. I've not had problems.
On Friday 05 November 2004 05:06, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
On Friday 05 November 2004 01:03, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I'd appreciate hearing from someone who's used STARTOFFICE 7.0 for a presentation (slides, screenshots, etc..) My question: Is "startoffice 7.0 Power-Point output compatible with MicroSoft Office for Windows/XP PowerPoint ?
Basically, yes. I've not had problems.
It's possible to convert between the 2... I would not try to run a StarOffice/OpenOffice SlideShow in PowerPoint without having time to work on it first... My experience is there are often formatting errors to be corrected.. Jerry
In general, so (and oo) can read and export mspowerpoint. but if an original ms pp is played thru so, some of the gadgets and picture drops will not play. there will be a difference in the look and feel, but not dropped frames; just different. Don't know how an so pp export plays in ms pp. On Friday 05 November 2004 05:44, Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Friday 05 November 2004 05:06, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
On Friday 05 November 2004 01:03, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I'd appreciate hearing from someone who's used STARTOFFICE 7.0 for a presentation (slides, screenshots, etc..) My question: Is "startoffice 7.0 Power-Point output compatible with MicroSoft Office for Windows/XP PowerPoint ?
Basically, yes. I've not had problems.
It's possible to convert between the 2... I would not try to run a StarOffice/OpenOffice SlideShow in PowerPoint without having time to work on it first...
My experience is there are often formatting errors to be corrected..
Jerry
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I'd appreciate hearing from someone who's used STARTOFFICE 7.0 for a presentation (slides, screenshots, etc..) My question: Is "startoffice 7.0 Power-Point output compatible with MicroSoft Office for Windows/XP PowerPoint ? Synthetic Cartoonz wrote: Basically, yes. I've not had problems.
Jerry Westrick wrote:
My experience is there are often formatting errors to be corrected..
Ditto The two are mostly compatible, but one or two odd things can happen, usually not serious enough to spoil a presentation. If you want maximum compatibility, make sure you have arial and times new roman TTF fonts installed on your linux system - just copy them from /windows/c/windows/fonts through KDE control centre if you have dual boot - and set these as the default fonts in the SO Impress presentation rather than use Timmons and Albany. I use the stylist to set this up. Actually, this is not a problem specific to impress - I've seen lots of PowerPoint Presentations go wrong because the box on which the PowerPoint was displayed had different fonts installed from the box on which it was created. The second formatting problem I've seen has to do with how SO handles character formatting. If you import from PowerPoint, character formatting (e.g. bold, italics) at the end of a line often gets carried forward to the next line when you get it imported in Impress. I don't think the problem occurs the other way round Formulas and SO drawings work well, though you should copy and paste special the drawings as GDI metafiles. Font problems can and do occur, especially with formulas. M$ basically don't support unusual characters at all well. Applets don't work at all in PowerPoint. I tend to use SO when I need equations or drawings because PowerPoint is so weak. If I don't have SO for displaying the results, I just export as Flash - it's not yet as neat as PowerPoint for displaing the slide show, but it works in just about any browser at full screen and is much less limited in what it will display correctly. -- JDL
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