Open office Impress question

stefano

I am working on a presentation whilst on sick leave, which I want to send to my boss as a Powerpoint slide presentation.
I am aware that Powerpoint allows you to send presentation in either .ppt or .pps format, with .pps format being the one that open in slide show as default.
My Open Office software does not seem to offer the .pps option.
Does anyone know of any trick to achieve that goal?

WhiteChristmas

I think if you save as xxx.ppt then just change the file name to xxx.pps it should do what you want.

.ppt and .pps files are identical, as far as I know; the only difference is in mode of initial opening.

Incidentally - my commiserations for your having to use Impress. OpenOffice's word processor is great and the spreadsheet is all right for the price(!) but the presentation package is an absolute dog compared to any of the commercial packages.

Neil49

Try using Libre Office which is based on Open Office but has been brought up to date.

Amongst many save options .pps is one of them.

I switched from Open Office some time ago because of its out of date save options.

Libre Office is also free.

triadx

I second what Neil49 suggests.

Having been annoyed with Open Office's shortcut(s) (or lack of, in this case for Fill Down (CTRL+D)), a friend suggested Libre Office which is also free and more maintained.

stefano

Neil49 wrote: »

Try using Libre Office which is based on Open Office but has been brought up to date.

Amongst many save options .pps is one of them.

I switched from Open Office some time ago because of its out of date save options.

Libre Office is also free.

I have been perusing the Libre Office feature site and it looks good.
One more question: I have built a library of Open Office documents on my laptop, will they all be fully compatible with the Libre Office software?

I assume I cannot have both Office suites on my laptop.

J_B

stefano wrote: »

One more question: I have built a library of Open Office documents on my laptop, will they all be fully compatible with the Libre Office software?

Should be - what type are they?
.doc or what?

stefano wrote: »

I assume I cannot have both Office suites on my laptop.

Of course you can

stefano

J_B wrote: »

Should be - what type are they?
.doc or what?

.odt- .ods- .odp- .doc- .ppt- .xls

A wide variety really.

Neil49

Libre Office uses .odt .ods by default (which are Open Office standards) so you will have no problems opening those or any MS Word documents.

If you go down the Libre Office route you can change the default Save options from .odt etc to .doc etc quite easily.

Go to Tools / Options and click on the + sign against Load/Save. Click on General and within that screen there is the option to choose your default 'Always Save As' for documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints etc.

I am a local treasurer for a national charity and have to maintain records on a complicated Excel spreadsheet produced by Head Office. Open Office caused no end of problems but Libre Office handles it perfectly. It sometimes warns you about format issues when saving in a non Libre/Open Office standard but this has never caused any ongoing issues.

As J B has pointed out, you can have more than one Office suite on your pc at any one time so you have absolutely nothing to lose by trying out Libre Office. If you don't like it then just remove it at a later date.