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Must use MS formats?
Authored by: hAckz0r on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 04:30 PM EST
From a long and tortured experience I recently had, it seems as long as PowerPoint knows the document file was created by LibreOffice (or OpenOffice?) it will continue to trash all the slides when it is reloaded by PP. Even after fixing everything in PP and saving it as a PP specific format, and then reloading it again in PP, it still ruined all the figures! It remembers its lack of MS authenticity when saving apparently. When I finally opened a new/blank PP presentation and simply pasted the entire OO presentation directly into it, from the clipboard buffer, everything displayed just fine after saving and reloading it. It seems as long as PP knows the 'file' genealogy came from somewhere else it will try its best to mess things up for you. Not because it can't deal with the data from another source, just because it was not PP that created that file.

I hope others have had better luck.

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Try Google Docs for PowerPoint
Authored by: rocky on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 06:19 PM EST
Yeah, PowerPoint translation from Open Office is generally still pretty broken.
However, my daughter in college has found that a presentation saved from Google
Docs into PowerPoint format comes out great.

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