Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Sonntag April 17, 2005

Just switch! - Who needs PowerPoint anymore?
I just opened up a few PowerPoint files in StarOffice 8 again with which I had quite a few problems in StarOffice 7 about one year ago. Back then I had to manually modify the slides after importing them in StarOffice 7 which took me several hours for about ten presentations. Now in StarOffice 8 I can just open the files like StarOffice 8 files. I did not notice any importing issues that would require manual changes.

Since I only tested a few files I can't say if StarOffice 8 can handle all PowerPoint files that well, but I think my first results are very promising.

If you look at the results below, who do you think needs PowerPoint anymore?

StarOffice 7 StarOffice 8 Microsoft PowerPoint

A Powerpoint presentation opened in different applications

First Click = First Step of Animation

Second Click = Second Step of Animation
(notice the flow of the animation)

Third Click = Third Step of Animation
(notice the flow of the animation)

Final View
(notice the angles/directions of the lines)

Another slide from a different presentation
(notice the "balloons")

And another one
(notice the "balloons")

( Apr 17 2005, 02:48:11 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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Please, could you give me this presentation. I liked too much the choose of colors and images. I think I would need this flowchat here in my workday. Please send it to me. My Best Regards Ezequias

Gesendet von Ezequias Rocha am April 20, 2005 at 06:39 PM CEST #

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