Open Office Impress Issue

[Jarred Morris <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi. I've tried your community support with no luck and I'm hoping you can
help me. I have Open Office Impress version 4.1.5 on a Windows 8.1 64bit
OS. I love your free programs since I can't afford the competitors.

I am having one major issue:

I am wanting editable text fields during the slideshow just like in
Microsoft Powerpoint. I've seen videos that this can be done.

Can you please explain to me how to do this step by step?

-- 
Thanks and Have a Great Day!
Jarred

Re: Open Office Impress Issue

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com.INVALID>]

At 11:25 07/04/2020 -0500, Jarred Morris wrote:
>I've tried your community support ...

Er, this *is* community support.

>... with no luck and I'm hoping you can help me. I have Open Office 
>Impress version 4.1.5 on a Windows 8.1 64bit OS. I love your free 
>programs since I can't afford the competitors.

They are not mine, of course.

>I am having one major issue: I am wanting editable text fields 
>during the slideshow just like in Microsoft Powerpoint. I've seen 
>videos that this can be done.

Do you mean that you have seen it done in Microsoft Powerpoint or in 
OpenOffice (Impress)?

>Can you please explain to me how to do this step by step?

It seems you've been told this facility isn't available.

What is it that you want to do with the resulting presentation? You 
can include editable text boxes in either a presentation (Impress) or 
a drawing (Draw) document, and these will behave very similarly to 
what you are hoping for. There are some disadvantages:

o You need to have the document in edit mode during use - rather than 
in a mode that protects the rest of your content, as the "slide show" 
function of a presentation would.

o This means that the document cannot fill the screen.

o Users need to know to double-click the border of a text box in 
order to edit its contained text rather than simply clicking inside 
it. That will be no problem for you in a demonstration, but may make 
individual use by, say, pupils less smooth.

But this could be a workaround.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker  


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Re: Open Office Impress Issue

[Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 11:25:57 -0500
Jarred Morris <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi. I've tried your community support with no luck and I'm hoping you can
> help me. I have Open Office Impress version 4.1.5 on a Windows 8.1 64bit
> OS. I love your free programs since I can't afford the competitors.
> 
> I am having one major issue:
> 
> I am wanting editable text fields during the slideshow just like in
> Microsoft Powerpoint. I've seen videos that this can be done.
> 
> Can you please explain to me how to do this step by step?
> 
> -- 
> Thanks and Have a Great Day!
> Jarred

The experts on the Forum have already told you that such functionality is not available in Impress, as far as they know.  No amount of repeated asking is going to cause it to be there if it is not.  If it is available in an equivalent program from another source, then you should use that.

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Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>

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