OpenOffice and Powerpoint

[Ralph Sanford]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 07:26, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint?
> I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel
> 
> 

Hi Joel,

I did a fair amount of OO Impress to Powerpoint a couple of months ago. 
The conversion is generally OK -say 85 to 95% -, but there are little
glitches. 

1.  Bullets in Impress will still look like bullets when the converted
file is viewed on your linux computer using OO.  (The Impress file
fileanme.sxi has been saved as filename.ppt and is being viewed using OO
Impress.)  When the same filename.ppt is viewed in MS Powerpoint the
bullets will likely be seen as a small happy face rather than as a small
black dot.

2.  Picture / Graphic placement may be slightly different between the
sxi file and the ppt file.  The result is that the picture and the
adjacent text may overlap.

I have not tried animated or motion presentation, so I can not comment
on any possible issues.

Overall the problems are not insurmountable.  The text, graphics,
backgrounds, styles, and notes are all converted from sxi to ppt.  Using
a common font -arial or times new roman- will help but this still has
the bullets problem (I was using Arial and encoding set at ISO-8859-1).

HTH

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