open office impress

[anthonybaxter]

So I'm hoping that someone out there knows the answer to this, because I'm stuffed if I can figure it out, or find the information with google.

Using OpenOffice Impress (the presentation software) how the hell do I get bullet points on a slide to come up one at a time? This is driving me insane. The help documents are spectacularly useless.

Comments

[z3nmaster.livejournal.com]

This is the best that my google-fu turned up.
http://www.linuxmigration.com/quickref/apps/office.html#animation
Helpful ?

[drwally.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you just use ppt and just try and make it not look like ppt?

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

um...one slide per point perhaps?

[justinjs.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the un-useful comment: I am only a casual user of openoffice.

Lately, I've found the "prosper" LaTeX package to be my favorite way of putting together good-looking and fully-featured presentations. If you're familiar with TeX at all and are casting about for good slideshow software, check it out.

[gonecaving.livejournal.com]

Slide Show->Effects
brings up the effects dialog. Click on the "T" to get Text effects which should allow you to have your bullet points appear one at a time.

[anthonybaxter.livejournal.com]

A-ha! This seems to be the trick, but of course, openoffice hates me.

For this presentation, when I have it open, and click on 'Effects', the effects dialog that's open gets re-drawn about once every 2s, and each time it's re-drawn, it resets to the default 'Effects' tab.

Looking further, this is because I have the little 'Presentation' window (with Insert Slide, Modify Slide Design... and a couple of other items in it) showing, and partially overlapping the main window. If I move it or kill it, it stops auto-refreshing the damn dialogs every couple of seconds.

Aaaargh. I hate computers.