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April 13, 2004

OpenOffice.org Presentation

I'm working on a web services / service oriented architecture presentation for my local CFUG, and since I never got around to installing Office, I've been using Open Office.

So far I'm impressed with OpenOffice's presentation tool (called simply: Presentation I think). I find it easier to use the PowerPoint, and I don't see any reason to use power point in the future.

One area I found to be lacking was the pre-built presentation templates, there are only a few to choose from. But don't worry OpenOffice still has all the annoying features, such as animations, and transitions!

The coolest feature in my opinion you can export your presentations to swf's (Macromedia Flash), or PDF. That's nice since to my knowledge there are no free ppt viewers for OSX (that I have found anyways). You can open PPT files with OOo, but you can't them with OOo. That's not a big deal though, since swf is a better vehicle for sharing presentations on the web IMHO.

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On 04/13/2004 at 4:29:03 AM MDT aral wrote:

I've prepared my last three presentations in Open Office (1.1.0 -- just installed 1.1.1, which I believe is mainly a bug-fix release) and I have had no complaints.

Glad to meet a fellow Open Officer (hmm, now *that* sounds kinky!) :)

On 07/03/2004 at 3:01:23 PM MDT Jeff wrote:

I have been trying to use the presentation feature of Openoffice but am running into a few problems. Any help on how to put Music into slide shows would be appreciated. I can insert sound files, but they do not last throughout the program. Any info on how to insert music and have it last throughout the whole presentation would be appreciated.

On 09/11/2004 at 4:42:22 PM MDT zeshan wrote:

plz send me ppt presentation for open office in which presentation on writer,clac,ect

On 06/21/2005 at 8:26:13 AM MDT Yvonne wrote:

hi, I jsut started using open office(presentation), and Im needed to present the difference in the features of presentation and MS powerpoint. Anyone knows the differences in the features?

On 09/06/2005 at 6:51:19 PM MDT Michel wrote:

Pete, thanx for your post about OpenOffice. We're trying to use CF to show OpenOffice docs(.doc, .xls, .rtf, and so on) with cfcontent tag and don't have success. OpenOffice 2.0 Beta changes the default(1.1+ versions) extension crashing our app. Do you have anymore tips or ideas about this? Thanx. MD

On 09/22/2005 at 10:34:11 AM MDT Giovani wrote:

Hi, Pete. I have the exact same problem as Michel. With OpenOffice 1.9.100/2.0 Beta my app does not work anymore. With 1.1.2 it was fine. I'm using cfcontent tag and CFMX 6.1 to display docs saved as ".doc" and ".xls" formats with OpenOffice. Any ideas? Thanks, Giovani.

On 04/18/2006 at 3:09:54 AM MDT Steini wrote:

Hi, open office is great. Though I'm facing the same problem as Jeff. I can't put in a music file that play throughout the whole presentation. Just for the individual slide it works. Could anyone help me please. Thanks