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OpenOffice's presentation application. Tag questions about macro programming with macros.

's presentation component. Analogous to .

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How to embed formulas in a line of text using OpenOffice Impress?

I want to create a presentation in Impress and need to embed a formula in text. I only found very old forum posts (over five years old), which said it is not possible. Has this changed by now? How can I do it?
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How to decrease indent in openoffice impress?

I have created several nested indents on one slide, and then I want to create a bullet back at one of the higher levels. But if I just backspace, it deletes the line. How can I decrease indent? Another question is, if the text doesn't fit on the…
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OOo Display bullet points one at a time

How can I set up slides in my Open Office presentation to display bullet points one at a time? In this case I want to apply this to all bullet points in all slides but I don't mind adding it one text box at a time as it's a small presentation.
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Text Formatting toolbar continuously disappears in Impress (open office)

This is a very weird and annoying problem. Not sure if it's a bug or a "feature" I'm using OpenOffice 3.2 (within Ubuntu 10.04). The Text Formatting toolbars disappear in many circumstances, e.g. each time I click out of a writing area. It's…
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Converting OpenOffice Impress presentation to video without screen recording

How can I convert an OpenOffice Impress presentation to a video without setting up a screen recording? The goal is to have a server that produces an MPEG stream with the presentation. I want to avoid screen recording to avoid having a GUI on that…
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How to change bullets color in OpenOffice Impress?

I had some presentation with black text with black bullets. Then I put text on dark background and made it white. Bullets remain black. How to make them white too?
Dims
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Is there a way to change the background color of a slide in OpenOffice.org Impress using hexadecimal values?

So far I've only found a way to change the background color by right-clicking the slide and going to Slide > Page Setup > Background > Color, but it only shows a fixed selection of colors, like this: I was wondering if it was possible to actually…
Randell
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OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress messing up master slides when saving in native (ODP) format

I want to have several master slides in my presentation so I created them in View ► Master ► Slide Master. The background images of my master slides are different (I added the images to each master slide by right clicking in its background and…
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how to add pdfs from R to an openoffice presentation?

I am using R to produce plots in pdf format, which I believe contain SVG information inside. I would like to use the same pdf files for my OpenOffice presentation (LibreOffice 3.3.4, OOO330m19 (Build:401)). Is there any way to add these directly…
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How do I apply a presentation style in OpenOffice impress?

I'm working from a template someone else provided for me. In the "Styles and Formatting" window are a number of useful styles such as "Outline 1", "Outline 2", etc. If I click in a piece of text in a slide, the corresponding item in the "Styles and…
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How do I view the total time of OOo Impress' Rehearse Timings?

I've rehearsed a talk using OpenOffice.org Impress, and I want to know the total time taken. How can I do this?
Andrew Grimm
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How to find a linked file in OpenOffice?

My system died several months ago. I had enough warning to back up the hard drive, though. Now I'm digging through the backup trying to pull out a few files. One of them is an old OpenOffice Impress presentation. I can open it and it mostly…
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preview next slide in openoffice presentation?

is there away to show the next slide coming up and the current one on the laptop but only have the current one displaying on the projector?
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Dancing .gif in slideshow "smears" the image in OpenOffice Impress

I'm creating slides which includes a dancing .gif Unfortunately when I play the slideshow, it leaves an impression of the image in the background, like this How to fix this??? This .gif render properly in SlideShow mode
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How to embed (not insert) MP3 in OpenOffice Impress

My question is similar to this, Photos and Animated .gif disappear in Open Office Impress But unfortunately when I go to Edit, the Links option is greyed out. Is there another way to embed mp3 files? I need to email the slides to the attendees and…
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