Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 64670
make slides editable in slideshow (bring back live editing mode)
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:40:29 UTC
I followed the dual headed workaround found in a different incident, but when presenting I cannot fix errors or really do much of anything at all to the slides while presenting. This is important because I was giving a presentation and the presenter changed something on the fly that was used 3 slides later... Having been told to change this, being unable to do so makes the presenter and I both look bad. In powerpoint I had the capibility to edit slides while presenting so that I could keep the slides accurate.
according to http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/workflowcharts/RFE_issues_by_QA.sxd I reassign this issue to requirements and set the status to New
This functionality was present in OOo 1.x, but was removed for some reason.
I agree, I aslo was wondering, Will it be possible to edit and add slides when the presentation is running? I've found that if I am editing text currently with the text tool before starting the show, I can make changes to text - So this is a work around for now. But I can only make changes to boxes present in the active presentation when it is running. I would also like to be able to make changes on the fly, and also add new slides. To be able to make changes like that on the fly, if worth the possiblity of it not re-drawing as pretty, I do think it would be nice to be able to choose, Live update, where the audience can see you typing, and having an update now button. The update now button would make the changes once you have finished. Currently they don't show up straight away, but next time the slide is they do. I know PP2000 had a feature that you could add text and change it live, is this an option, as in a livce woship environment it works really well, with pp2000 I could have a verse nicely layed out on the projector looking pro, live without the need for the speaker notes, just pasting it onto the text frame in a slide window. Also it would be nice to be able to say, If the presentation is on slide 5 but I want to display slide 15, just have 15 on the program screen and press F5, and have the presentation jump to slide 15? This used to work in pp2000 as well. These would make it better than the current version of powerpoint. And give OOO a definite edge.Ben
I found that you can edit text on slides with ooo 2.1, still if you are editing text when you start the presentation. Why the limitation witout editing text when you start? And can we add the ability to add slides during a presentation. That would work really well in church situations, where the presenter might ask you to put a quote or bible verse on the screen.
This is about the only function that is missing from Open Office that means that I still need PowerPoint installed. PLEASE re-implement the editing of slides when slideshow running.
Being able to edit texts (or move objects around) during presentation is of critical importance for professional presenters who like to keep their audience awake by interacting with them. I am lecturer and like the "church people" we lecturers probably generally hate to present like playing a slideshow and reading a preformulated text. For people who need restraints to feel more secure during presentation time, it might be helpful to be able to turn the live features off. Actually I used another presenter (active slide) for quite some time, which allowed for full interactivity by marking the object property "editable at run time", but -among other problems- since the developers of that software ceased to support it any further(and worse - violated backwards compatibility) switching to a mainstream "powerpoint clone" like impress was unfortunately(?) necessary. Please - dear developers - allow yourself to surpass powerpoint in this important point. I personally wouldn't mind ending up with a presenter that is less compatible with microsoft in the long run and doesn't reproduce each and any powerpoint feature. Although I know you might be scolded for that by part of the community. Powerpoint is not a good piece of software after all! It lures you into adapting a bad presentation style. All of my votes for enhanced interactivity!!! regards micha137
Please put this presentation back into impress. I teach physics and use impress a lot because I can embed latex files into the presentation (using OOolatex). However the biggest problem is that I can not edit the presentations while they are being displayed. I currently have to write my presentations in impress and then display them using powerpoint in order to get the interactivity that I require in class.