OpenOffice question Impress / PowerPoint question

We use PowerPoint at church for the hymns, songs, readings and announcements.

The announcements are shown in an endless loop before the service, then the service unfolds, then the announcements loop again after the end of the service.

I found out how to do this in PowerPoint from the internet - you can jump from one PowerPoint file to another - then branch back on one press of "escape" - and it all works fine.

HOWEVER :

The person taking over preparation of the PowerPoint from me does not have Microsoft Office on her laptop (though she's running Vista). She uses OpenOffice ( Hurrah ! )

That's no problem for the Sundays. We can either use the church's own laptop or she can download the free PowerPoint Viewer software.

But for preparing the file it's more of a problem. The Big Question is this :

Can you branch and return from one Impress presentation to another ? And if so how ?

Anyone know ?

Comments

Emmanuel said…
Dear Alan!
I am not sure I understand your question. If you use the church laptop, can't this person save the presentation(s) in powerpoint format? Why do you need several files?
One possibility is probably to explorer the "presentation personalisée" option.
BTW, are you anywhere near Cardiff when you are in Wales; If so, you must pop in for a paned.
12:55 pm
Alan said…
Hi there ! Yes, I will be in Cardiff a bit. I'll give you a bell.

You may be onto something there. Maybe the file can be prepared on the church laptop in PowerPoint...
1:09 pm
Emmanuel said…
No, No. Whoever prepares the presentation(s) do it with Open Office, but instead of saving it in their format, they chose to save it in .ppt. Easy peasy. The strength of Open Office over Powerpoint is the great variaty of formats available. You can export your presentation to Flash, so that it can be played on any computer with a web browser and the Flash plugin. You can also export to pdf... All that for free... Try to do that with Powerpoint.
3:55 pm
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