Help With OpenOffice?

Question

I am using OpenOffice and I would like to know a good site or something to help me out with it! I use Microsoft Office all of the time at school and in PowerPoint you can insert videos and make songs play all of the way through, I want to know if I can and how to do it in OpenOffice's PowerPoint (they call it Impress) I know that Microsoft and OpenOffice can both read each others' files....If you can help.....it will be much appreciated!

Answer 1

Basic documentation on OpenOffice,org is found here: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manu... .

Lots more links to help and tutorials are found here: http://support.openoffice.org/ . A wiki is found here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki... . The wiki is rather new.

Google is also you friend. Just type into the Google Window the word openoffice followed by any other words that reflect what you want to find out, such as audio and Impress in your case.

Unfortunately for you, audio in Impress and audio in Powerpoint do not work exactly the same. From http://documentation.openoffice.org/tuto... :

“● Impress does not support voice-over narration, and thus the audio track is lost after import from PowerPoint. However, since it is possible to assign sound effects to presentation, it is possible to re-record the narration as separate audio files, and attach them to the presentation to recreate the same functionality.”

Essentially each slide must have its own, independent sound track in Impress

By the way, I’ve been using OpenOffice.org both at home in my DP department at work since version 1.1 and haven’t encountered any problems that I can’t work around fairly easily. But I admit I’ve hardly ever used Impress, mostly using Writer and Calc.

We replaced most of our Microsoft Office utilties with OpenOffice utilities. Some we did not bother replacing because OpenOffice in some ways is better than MS Office and were no longer needed, or at least that was the case at that time. At least as of version 2006 MS Office, the last version I tested, it still didn’t even fully support translating from XLS to DBF files,  its  mail merge was still buggy for anything over 1,000 records, and its master document feature still didn't work properly. At least with OpenOffice.org I can go on site and read all the bugs that have been found, and not discover them by surprise in production work.

I have encountered bugs both in MS Office and in OpenOffice.org. And I've encountered the frustration of using a new program by a different vendor that doesn’t do things exactly as I am used to them being done.

Essentially, OpenOffice.org does work (mostly) just like MS Office works (mostly). I have no problems with line spacing or fonts or setting defaults, and never did, perhaps in part because I used the Help and the manuals. And version 2.4.1, the current version, is far better and rather different than version 1.1 which I first used. No-one I know who uses OpenOffice.org complains about it very much, at least no more than they used to complain about Microsoft Word.

Answer 2

if you're doing any serious job open office is a joke

help yrself and buy msoffice - during back to school is only $ 6o for students

openoffice claims to be in version 2.4.1 and in reality is 1.0 beta

impossible to cancel permanently hyperlinks, can't change default values, default values set to high, default values increased by 2 or 0.2 - insufficient for serious work, messes fonts etc.

i give them credit for opening files correctly at least for my work

here is my complaining about openoffice - needed help got none

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

just left click it